Special Exhibitions
MetaScape
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Torben Giehler Torben Giehler's intensely architectonic compositions, indebted to video game and animation technology, depict topographic sites reinterpreted as geometric abstractions. His cascading, pivoting views of the land seem poised to lift off the canvas. Giehler's dynamic paintings vibrate with tension, achieved in part through his reconciliation of the natural and artificial.His paintings begin as freehand drawings, which Giehler then photographs digitally and downloads into a computer. Using Adobe Photoshop, he then deconstructs the image, re-assembling the likeness into a blueprint for the painting. These fractured planes of form -each individually taped-off and carefully hand-painted-have a flat, matter-of-fact quality. When the composition is complete, however, it virtually explodes from the surface of the canvas, propelled by the dynamic interaction of color. Torben Giehler was born in 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany and lives and works in New York City. His 2003 solo exhibitions include Paolo Curti & Co., Milan; Eleni Koroneou, Athens; The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA. Other recent solo exhibitions include Leo Koenig, Inc, New York (2002 and 2000); Texas Gallery, Houston TX (2002); Galerie Frank, Paris, France (2002); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (1999). Among Giehler's notable group exhibitions are Neonopolis at Leo Koenig, Las Vegas, NV; Swing Club at Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany; Superimposition at Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; Come On Feel The Noise at Asbaek Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark; Paper Trail, Pt. 2 at Shaheen Contemporary, Cleveland, OH. MetaScape is Torben Giehler's first exhibition at an American museum.
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