We are pleased to announce our upcoming show Modern Archaeology, recent paintings by Augustus Goertz. It has been five years since his last solo exhibition at the gallery. Since that time, the artist has had numerous solo shows throughout Germany.
Art making for Augustus Goertz means an inquir... Read more
We are pleased to announce our upcoming show Modern Archaeology, recent paintings by Augustus Goertz. It has been five years since his last solo exhibition at the gallery. Since that time, the artist has had numerous solo shows throughout Germany.
Art making for Augustus Goertz means an inquiry into philosophical questions of where we are and where we are going. To Goertz, painting means an investigation and interpretation of the world. The book Guns, Germs and Steel written by Jared Diamond that chronicled the way modern world came to be by conquering others, inspired this new body of work. As Goertz is inclined to see the beauty in the world, the artist’s inner nature rises above the migration of people bent on destruction.
Goertz understands painting as the intersection of aesthetics, science and philosophy. While he started in the tradition of Color Field painters, Goertz brings to this tradition a refreshing willingness to experiment with new and mysterious material, including incorporating plastic GI Joes. His palette is earthy and urban as he exploits a wide variety of effects, from celestial mists of color to an impasto applied so thickly it almost qualifies as relief.
In the liquid light series, the process of painting takes place in the dark room. The photographs are painted, sponged, and washed with photo-chemicals. He captures a moment in time not as it is, but as our memory has to accept the fading nature of life itself. What one sees in the end are imprints of modern architecture that will be lost in time.
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