Christoph Schmidberger : OPEN SORE

8 Oct-19 Nov 2011

Overview

Schmidberger's drawings disassociate themselves from the bright colours of his paintings and revive the iconography of a grand old age, recalling how the charm of those classics lay particularly in their complete mastery of monochrome. It is, of course, difficult to establish whether this tribute is intentional or consequential, in either case it is a rare concession to the past from an artist for whom the present is a speciality. of time. In the seventies, Franz Gertsch's huge canvases were often interpreted as a mere exercise in style, influenced by the American Hyperrealism of Chuck Close and Richard Estes. It was only years later that we able to truly appreciate Gertsch's intentions for what they really were: a celebration of the Blow Up, the explosion of colour in cinema and European Hippy culture.