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GRIMM and Van Doren Waxter present
Volker Hüller
June 17 - July 10, 2020
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The collaborative project features etchings and mixed media paintings by the German-born multi-disciplinary artist Volker Hüller (b. 1976, Forchheim, DE) whose works are in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York (US); Dallas Museum of Art (US); and The Israel Museum Jerusalem (IL), among others. Volker Hüller's works reveal scenes from the artist’s personal life as well as narratives of misadventure and mythology, brought together in dialogue with bold abstraction. Selected works - including recent works on paper can be viewed across both vandorenwaxter.com and grimmgallery.com.
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The monolithic heads in Hüller's paintings 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 idealisations, keeping this place at a distance and free of any impositions of the human experience. The artist reminds us that paradise is an abstraction, melancholic but nevertheless indispensable to maintaining sanity.
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Volker HüllerSensei, 2019Etching, watercolor, pigment, shellac on paper, framedUnframed: 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$ 7,500.00 -
Volker HüllerEpiphany I, 2019Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framedUnframed: 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$ 7,000.00 -
Volker HüllerEpiphany II, 2019Etching, watercolor, shellac on paper, framedUnframed: 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$ 7,000.00
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"[Volker] Hüller has a delicate hand with etching and an amiable roughness with painting. Large canvases are covered completely by patchworks that include sizable scraps of more canvas and other textiles... the textured surfaces are highly reactive, changing as the light shifts or as you move about. These works pile on references - Yves Klein, Manzoni, Marca-Relli, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and even Julian Schnabel- but carry the weight."
- Roberta Smith, New York Times
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Volker Hüller’s practice spans oil painting, delicate hand-colored etchings, and mixed media sculptures that often engage the pictorial relationship between abstraction and figuration. Psychological tension, absurdity and the grotesque infuse his fantastical world, while in the more abstract works, lyrical forms can be found between the rigorous lines, cuboids, and layered surfaces.
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For enquiries regarding the featured artworks, please email enquiry@grimmgallery.com
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