Alex Lawler - After Freundlich

18 Mar-29 Apr 2016

Overview

A full exhibition text by Elizabeth Stanton is available to read on http://www.petervonkant.com A near-forensic investigation by Alex Lawler, one that gives form to a myriad of relationships and systems that are hidden in plain sight. Lawler has not only adopted a methodical approach to analyse and re-create Freundlich’s paintings as collages but in developing and exhibiting this body of work he explores the value systems and networks at play within the culture of contemporary art. Freundlich’s paintings speak of early modernism’s optimism toward the role of art in society, while the iconic works left unfinished when he was killed in a concentration camp in Lublin, Poland in 1943 are heavy with the weight of history. Lawler re-imagines these dynamic and historically loaded paintings in a way that prompts us to reflect upon interconnected narratives, both past and present.