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Volker Hüller
Paradise Inn, GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US), 4 September - 12 October 2019

Volker Hüller: Paradise Inn

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Works
  • Volker Hüller Paradise Lost I, 2019 Oil, acrylic, pencil, wax on canvas, framed 203.2 x 152.4 cm | 80 x 60 in
    Volker Hüller
    Paradise Lost I, 2019
    Oil, acrylic, pencil, wax on canvas, framed
    203.2 x 152.4 cm | 80 x 60 in
    Sold
  • Volker Hüller Paradise Lost II, 2019 Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, framed 204 x 154 cm | 80 1/4 x 60 5/8 in
    Volker Hüller
    Paradise Lost II, 2019
    Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, framed
    204 x 154 cm | 80 1/4 x 60 5/8 in
  • Volker Hüller Paradise Lost III, 2019 Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, framed 199 x 144 cm | 78 3/8 x 56 3/4 in
    Volker Hüller
    Paradise Lost III, 2019
    Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, framed
    199 x 144 cm | 78 3/8 x 56 3/4 in
  • Volker Hüller Paradise Lost V, 2019 Oil, acrylic, pencil, wax on canvas, framed 204 x 153 cm | 80 1/4 x 60 1/4 in
    Volker Hüller
    Paradise Lost V, 2019
    Oil, acrylic, pencil, wax on canvas, framed
    204 x 153 cm | 80 1/4 x 60 1/4 in
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  • Volker Hüller Paradise Lost IV, 2019 Oil, acrylic, pencil, wax on canvas, framed 205 x 150 cm | 80 3/4 x 59 1/8 in
    Volker Hüller
    Paradise Lost IV, 2019
    Oil, acrylic, pencil, wax on canvas, framed
    205 x 150 cm | 80 3/4 x 59 1/8 in
  • Volker Hüller, The Tree Hugger, 2019
    Volker Hüller, The Tree Hugger, 2019
  • Volker Hüller, Muffler, 2019
    Volker Hüller, Muffler, 2019
  • Volker Hüller Sunday 11:20 am, 2019 Oil, acrylic, pigments, watercolor on canvas, framed Single Panel: 228 x 128 cm | 89 3/4 x 50 3/8 in Quadriptych: 228 x 512 cm | 89 3/4 x 201 5/8 in
    Volker Hüller
    Sunday 11:20 am, 2019
    Oil, acrylic, pigments, watercolor on canvas, framed
    Single Panel: 228 x 128 cm | 89 3/4 x 50 3/8 in
    Quadriptych: 228 x 512 cm | 89 3/4 x 201 5/8 in
  • Volker Hüller, Distel, 2019
    Volker Hüller, Distel, 2019
  • Volker Hüller, Paradise Inn, 2019
    Volker Hüller, Paradise Inn, 2019
  • Volker Hüller Pimple Minds, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 29.1 x 23.8 cm | 11 1/2 x 9 3/8 in Framed: 33.5 x 28.3 cm | 13 1/4 x 11 1/8 in
    Volker Hüller
    Pimple Minds, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 29.1 x 23.8 cm | 11 1/2 x 9 3/8 in
    Framed: 33.5 x 28.3 cm | 13 1/4 x 11 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Volker Hüller Heiter bis wolkig, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 49.2 x 162.9 cm | 19 3/8 x 64 1/8 in Framed: 55.1 x 168.8 cm | 21 3/4 x 66 1/2 in
    Volker Hüller
    Heiter bis wolkig, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 49.2 x 162.9 cm | 19 3/8 x 64 1/8 in
    Framed: 55.1 x 168.8 cm | 21 3/4 x 66 1/2 in
    Sold
  • Volker Hüller After party, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 57.1 x 47 cm | 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in Framed: 62.2 x 52.1 cm | 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 in
    Volker Hüller
    After party, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 57.1 x 47 cm | 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in
    Framed: 62.2 x 52.1 cm | 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 in
    Sold
  • Volker Hüller Sensei, 2019 Etching, watercolor, pigment, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 60.3 x 52.5 cm | 23 3/4 x 20 3/4 in Framed: 65.4 x 57.6 cm | 25 3/4 x 22 3/4 in
    Volker Hüller
    Sensei, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, pigment, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 60.3 x 52.5 cm | 23 3/4 x 20 3/4 in
    Framed: 65.4 x 57.6 cm | 25 3/4 x 22 3/4 in
  • Volker Hüller Sifu, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 43 x 35.6 cm | 17 x 14 in Framed: 47.8 x 40.3 cm | 18 7/8 x 15 7/8 in
    Volker Hüller
    Sifu, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 43 x 35.6 cm | 17 x 14 in
    Framed: 47.8 x 40.3 cm | 18 7/8 x 15 7/8 in
    Sold
  • Volker Hüller Die faule Sau, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 26 x 31.3 cm | 10 1/4 x 12 3/8 in Framed: 30.5 x 35.7 cm | 12 x 14 1/8 in
    Volker Hüller
    Die faule Sau, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 26 x 31.3 cm | 10 1/4 x 12 3/8 in
    Framed: 30.5 x 35.7 cm | 12 x 14 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Volker Hüller Epiphany I, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 57.1 x 46.8 cm | 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in Framed: 62.2 x 51.9 cm | 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 in
    Volker Hüller
    Epiphany I, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 57.1 x 46.8 cm | 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in
    Framed: 62.2 x 51.9 cm | 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 in
  • Volker Hüller Epiphany II, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 57.5 x 47.1 cm | 22 5/8 x 18 5/8 in Framed: 62.5 x 52.2 cm | 24 5/8 x 20 5/8 in
    Volker Hüller
    Epiphany II, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 57.5 x 47.1 cm | 22 5/8 x 18 5/8 in
    Framed: 62.5 x 52.2 cm | 24 5/8 x 20 5/8 in
  • Volker Hüller Flowers and Snakes, 2019 Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed Unframed: 33.9 x 28.4 cm | 13 3/8 x 11 1/4 in Framed: 38.6 x 32.9 cm | 15 1/4 x 13 in
    Volker Hüller
    Flowers and Snakes, 2019
    Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framed
    Unframed: 33.9 x 28.4 cm | 13 3/8 x 11 1/4 in
    Framed: 38.6 x 32.9 cm | 15 1/4 x 13 in
    Sold
Installation Views
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Inn 4 September 12 October 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 6
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Inn 4 September 12 October 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 4 Scale
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Lost Installation 1
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Inn 4 September 12 October 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 10
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Inn 4 September 12 October 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 7
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Inn 4 September 12 October 2019 202 Bowery New York Installation 8
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Lost Installation 2
  • Volker Hu Ller Paradise Lost Installation 3
Press
  • Volker Hüller at GRIMM

    PLAYFUL SLASH EROTIC

    Scott Indrisek, Artforum, September 9, 2019
Press release
Volker Hüller, Paradise Inn
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GRIMM is proud to announce an exhibition of new works by Volker Hüller. This marks the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and his seventh solo exhibition in New York.

In Volker Hüller’s new series of large-scale paintings, an inscrutable face appears in shifting perspective, repeated across multiple works. Hüller employs precisely chosen colors for each canvas: vivid hues mellow and lines assimilate into elegant formations. These monolithic heads each look outward with a single eye. Reflected in every eye, palm trees are encircled by the setting sun. This small focal point represents a kind of island, symbolic of a remote location in the mind where we hold on to idealizations. Hüller prefers to keep this place at a distance, free of any impositions of the human experience: he reminds us that paradise is an abstraction, melancholic but nevertheless indispensable to maintaining sanity.

The artist integrates a succession of historical styles in both his paintings and etchings: the multi-panel battle scenes in both mediums evoke the fantastical world of Hieronymus Bosch’s (c.1450 –1516) Garden of Earthly Delights, as well as the death of the Buddha paintings of Japan’s Kamakura period. These references are balanced by simple, vigorous figuration which possesses distinct affinities to Expressionism and other strands of modernist exploration. The resulting combination of styles and references are enthralling and act to conceal the artist’s dark, yet often humorous, subject matter. Repeated motifs include disfigured Greco-Roman bodies, dying horses, and specter-like masks, that are mixed in with seemingly out-of-place or banal objects. Though these images evoke the darker side of humanity- expressed through violence and indulgence- the weight of Hüller’s subject matter is offset by a light-hearted, droll sensibility.

Among his subject matter in previous works, scenes and fragments from the artist’s life were often conflated with mythological symbols, such as in the appearance of snakes, skulls and semi-human forms. Some of these allegorical elements can be found in the series of etchings on display, but for many of the works Hüller shifts his emphasis to portraiture. His approach to each print is that of entering a laboratory where line, texture, space and time are questioned, tested, and ultimately ceded to as guiding, intuitive forces.

In conjunction with this exhibition, Van Doren Waxter will be presenting a large-scale collage by the artist in its lobby gallery, located at 23 East 73rd Street, from September 10 – October 26, 2019.

Opening: Wednesday September 4, 6-8pm

 

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  • PLAYFUL SLASH EROTIC Press

    PLAYFUL SLASH EROTIC

    Artforum Sep 9, 2019
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