Event
L.E.S. Summer Night
30 Jul 2020
New York
New York, United States
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Ludlow/Leipzig, installation at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 2020
Exhibition
Ludlow/Leipzig: Benjamin Butler and Bastian Muhr
26 Jun 2020 – 8 Aug 2020
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 87 Franklin Street
- New York
New York - NY 10013
- United States
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In 2019 Leipzig-based Bastian Muhr and Vienna-based Benjamin Butler began a conversation rooted in an affinity for each other’s work.
About
After several discussions surrounding a mutual interest in the aesthetics of a reduction that still preserves the presence of the hand, their dialogue led to Ludlow/Leipzig: two concurrent shows at Galerie Jochen Hempel in Leipzig and at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York.Muhr uses a palette of grays and blacks, embedding the journey of brush and paint throughout a generative variety of forms. Butler continues his project of pushing landscape into abstraction, here reducing depictions of “forests” to dapples of brushstrokes in green fields of paint on four adjacent canvas grounds. Taken together, the two artists present an idiosyncratic series that threads together minimalist ideas and keeps the painterly process in plain view.
