Eleni
Koroneou Gallery
November
25, 2016-JANUARY 14, 2017
Eleni
Koroneou Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition “Logos, Stripes and
Splashes” withnew paintings by Helmut Middendorf. Middendorf continues his
exploration of abstract art and shows again his great versatility in creating
his works, by presenting two different series of large-scale paintings.
In the
first series, referred by the artist as the “Black puddle paintings”, the
paintings are dominated by big abstract splashes or stains of black or dark
blue-grey colour. In some of the paintings an allover structure of white
stripes covers very colourful abstract compositions. The striped surface is
then overpainted or defaced by the artist with big splashes or puddles of
paint. In most of the new paintings, two different big stains correspond with
each other. For example in the painting “Black puddles-yellow” a collaged
composition in bright yellows, pink and white, is defaced by two horizontal
puddles of dark Payne’s grey colour. All these paintings show a hard and sharp
graphic contrast between the fore- and background.
The
paintings in the second series of works, the so-called “Logo paintings”, show
free compositions in vivid and radiant colours along with different logos that
Middendorf has collected or created himself. These compositions sometimes combine
collaged parts from the artist’s big collection of photo source material or
painted copies of cartoons or fragments of drawings. The logos give the
paintings a special direction of meaning. This can be ironic, absurd or
irritating. In everyday life people are permanently confronted with thousands
of logos. They are on smartphones and computer screens, there is an endless
number of Apps and each product has a logo. A logo always says: I’m a product,
I’m a brand.
Contact
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30 & THORIKION 7 , Athens, Greece 11 851
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