My Name
Andy Denzler

Address
Born
Andy Denzler
Studio Zürich:
Bachstrasse 9
8038 Zürich
Studio London: 1-15 Cremer St.
 

1965  
Phone
Fax
+41 (0)79 667 69 40 London +44 79 13 402  
 
Email
My Website / Links to Friends
info@andydenzler.com  
http://www.andydenzler.com
http://www.likeyou.com/andydenzler


Education
2006
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London


 
1999 - 2000
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Art Center of Design, Pasadena, CA
 
1998 -
Member of visarte.bvk 
1981 - 1985
Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich, Switzerland 

Solo Exhibitions
2008  
A Day at the Shore, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles
2007  
Insomnia, Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon
 
Blur Motion Paintings, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich
2006  
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles
Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich

2005  
Kashya Hildebrand, New York
Galerie Raphael Rigassi, Bern
Mönchof Galerie, Wehrli, Kilchberg

2004  
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003  
Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
Mönchhof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg
2002  
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
2001  
Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Basel
Mönchhof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg
2000  
Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
1999  
Mönchhof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg
1997  
Galerie Schenker, Luzern
Mönchof Galerie Wehrli, Kilchberg
 

Group Exhibitions
2008  
Unnatural Habitats, Flowers East, London  
2007  
Kindheit, Museuam Rohnerhaus, Lauterach, Austria  
2006  
Frieze art fair, London
Kunst 2006, Zurich

 
2005  
Galerie Wandelbar, Gstaad
Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Geneva

 
2003  
Art Basel 34, Basel
Gallery Shafraz, New York, NY
Kunst 2003, Zurich
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
Art Frankfurt, Germany
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich
 
2002  
Kunst 2002, Zurich
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich

 
2001  
Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich  
2000  
Kunst 2000, Zurich  
1999  
Kunst 99, Zurich
st'art 99 foire d'art contemporaine, Strassburg
Galerie Gluri-Suter-Huss, Wettingen
 
1998  
Europe-Art, Geneva
Art-Expo, New York, NY
st'art 98 foire d'art contemporaine, Strassburg
 

Statements
 
In the last three years and since receiving his masters degree from Chelsea College in London, Andy Denzler’s geometric abstractions have evolved into figurative works which will be presented in this exhibition. His current paintings reveal a dialogue with the past abstractions, but are now guided by the speculative nature of perception in his rich figurative works.

Figures referenced from mass media, photography, cinema and other areas of popular culture, are removed from their original contexts and placed into ambiguous spaces. Painted figures are gestural distorted by the movement of a spatula across the surface, blurring the identities of his subjects. While the paintings continue to revel in the physicality of paint that Denzler aptly manipulates, his works now embody the furtiveness of memory and observation through implied movement of paint and hazy features.

In a recent catalogue Hans-Joachim Müller wrote: “What essentially determines these pictures is the perceptively critical elegance with which they undermine the violent act of seeing, their unfathomable doubt of that surety of perception...”

This is Andy Denzler’s fourth solo exhibition at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angels. He also shows at von Braunberhens, Munich; Flowers East, London, Filomena Soares, Lisbon and has exhibitions planned for Gallery Mook, Beijing and East Link Gallery, Shanghai. His work is part of numerous public and private collections including White Cube, London, The Burger Collection, Zurich and the White House.
 

Choice of Work Title of Work

In My Mind | 2007 | Oil on canvas | 190 x 250 cm

Figures in Motion #1 | 2008 | Oil on canvas | 120 x 140 cm

Tate Modern | 2008 | Oil on canvas | 150 x 150 cm



Figures in Motion #2, 2008 | Oil on canvas | 190 x 250 cm

West Coast #3 | 2008 | Oil on canvas | 70 x 100 cm



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