Summary

 

Modernism is pleased to present

GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN + NAOMIE KREMER

at 

THE ART SHOW

NOVEMBER 3–7, 2021

 

BENEFIT PREVIEW
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

 

PUBLIC HOURS
THURSDAY-FRIDAY 12PM–8PM
SATURDAY 12PM-7PM
SUNDAY 12PM–5PM

 

LOCATION
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
PARK AVENUE AND 67TH STRRET
NEW YORK CITY

https://theartshow.org


The Art Show, held by the Art Dealers Association of America, is the nation’s most respected and longest-running art fair, offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest caliber through intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that encourage close viewing and active conversation with gallerists.

 

Modernism is pleased to present a two-person exhibition juxtaposing the paintings of Austrian-Irish artist Gottfried HELNWEIN and Israeli-American artist Naomie KREMER.

 

Over the past four decades, Gottfried Helnwein has developed an extraordinarily powerful and idiosyncratic visual vocabulary reflected in his masterful use of multiple media: painting, drawing, photography, performance, and stage design. Building on artistic precedents including the work of Francesco Goya, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and Joseph Beuys, Helnwein addresses a broad range of social and political issues, resulting in challenging and alluring artworks. Although at times disturbing, these works are deeply humane, and seek spiritual beauty often approaching the transcendental.

 

Vivid with motion and color, Naomie Kremer’s imagery is based in the real world, whether it’s nature, architecture, language and letterforms, or the human figure. Her work comes from a wide range of sources and inspirations, including art history, music, poetry and literature. “I look to information from the real world as the starting point for everything,” Kremer says.

 

Kremer once described her work to her early mentor Dennis Leon as “a fabric... that could have no holes in it,” and later told art critic Amei Wallach that she wanted the work “to have such a level of detail that up close it was as infinite as when you were far away, so that it wouldn’t start to disintegrate at a reading range.” She brings the work to that razor sharp edge between abstraction (e.g. De Kooning, Joan Mitchell) and nature (e.g. Monet).

 

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