 Installation view Stefan Gritsch In Sight and In Touch Margarete Roeder Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Stefan Gritsch "In Sight and In Touch". The exhibition will consist of an installation of seven solid acrylic paint volumes dispersed across the gallery. The volumes, assembled from small blocks of paint, are densely packed to form unitary, solid accretions while the enormously varied coloration and strata demonstrate the clastic quality of the monolithic assemblies. Gritsch has long used acrylic to form hybrid objects that operate somewhere between painting and sculpture. The material of the objects - always solid acrylic paint - is the unadulterated medium of painting - indeed, unlike painting it requires no "compromising" support of canvas or stretcher but rather relies exclusively on its authentic singular material. Yet the result desired and achieved is ambiguous: the coloristic and painterly effect is certainly as complex and sensual as any abstract plane, yet these works insist on their objectness, their three dimensionality. With the present installation Gritsch has further expanded the domain of these resistant hybrids. Rather than simply arranged with the space Gritsch has installed the work at a single height (four feet from the floor) on tables and shelves so the viewer is always positioned between works. The viewer is now a participant in the works, gliding through an invisible horizontal plane demarcated by color. The multivalency of the works has now expanded from the ambiguity of status and definition - painting? object? - to include our perception of them. Gritsch alludes to this in his ironic, humorous title: paintings to be looked at, sculptures to be touched. Gritsch, (born 1951, Berne) lives and works in Lenzburg, Switzerland. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in both Europe and the United States; Gritsch recently completed a site-specific installation for Unique Airport Zurich, Dock Midfield. This is his third solo exhibition at Margarete Roeder Gallery. Margarete Roeder Gallery wishes to acknowledge Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland, for their generous support in realizing this exhibition. March 6 - April 18, 2003 Hours: Wed-Sat 11 am - 5:30 pm Margarete Roeder Gallery 545 Broadway, 4th floor USA-New York, NY 10012 Telephone +1 212 925 6098 Fax +1 212 431 7050 E-Mail Roedernyc@aol.com www.roedergallery.com |
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