Exhibition "Now You See It" Paintings by Hermann Lederle The White Series 2004
Hermann Lederle’s new show of his Silence Paintings, the White Series 2004, at the Solaris Gallery
(PRWEB) April 16, 2005 -- Hermann Lederle’s new show of his Silence
Paintings, the White Series 2004, at the Solaris Gallery is called “Now You See
It”, but it’s just as appropriate to call it “now you don’t”. He is a master of
obfuscation, painting layer upon layer of oil paint incorporated with wax over a
gold leaf grid, forcing himself and the viewer into an emotionally charged
process of discovery. “I paint to find what I am looking for”, says Lederle,
“photography is a moment captured in time, my paintings work in an opposite way
– as revelations – sometimes they reveal something that was there all along, and
sometimes you see in them something brand new, and in seeing what is new
,something else entirely comes through, a fossil buried and exposed through the
various layers. In my paintings you can feel the sense of my life.” Through the
blizzard of paint, Lederle evolves the history of his art: the quick charcoal
life drawings of his years at the San Francisco Art Institute, their
transformation into his blurred oil stick paintings, to his discovery of gold
leaf, with it’s definite high contrast surface, applied in grids that literally
trap his expressionistic figures – bodies, faces, fish and birds -- within a
pattern of golden pixels. “I don’t capture what I see”, he says, “I capture what
I feel I see.” In his white paintings, Lederle continues to deal with the
figure, liberating and imprisoning it simultaneously, and then sending it into
dynamic, turbulent motion through the introduction of circular layers atop the
gold-leaf grid, playing background against foreground in a perpetual tug-of-war
with the eye of the viewer. His paintings shift and transform with fluctuations
in the light, and the hidden figures, fighting for air, for space, for dominance
-- a pentimento – forgotten images, surfaces, feelings and music set free as
much by what Lederle leaves out as by what consciously has placed there. “If you
really abstract a shape so much”, says Lederle, “the imagination of the viewer
does the work. I don’t want to impose a message on my paintings. I see them as a
catalyst. The images I want you to see in what I do are your
own.”
Hermann Lederle’s new show of his Silence Paintings, the White
Series 2004, at the Solaris Gallery:
April 30 - June 10, 2005
Reception
Saturday April 30
4:30 -7:30PM
Solaris Gallery
9009 Melrose
Avenue
Los Angeles California 90069
Tel: 310-273-6935
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