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Edition of the Festival Printemps de Septembre
2011
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Installation view
Sophie von Hellermann is best known for her
large-scale, romantic, pastel-washed canvases, which are often
installed to suggest complex narrative threads. Applying pure
pigment on to unprimed canvas, Hellermann’s use of broad-brushed
washes imbue her pictures with a sense of weightlessness so
that objects and figures are spread with ease and economy across
the picture plane. Von Hellermann’s paintings draw upon
current affairs as often and as fluidly as they borrow from
the imagery of classical mythology and literature to create
expansive imaginary places. She says, "what interests me
is how the mind works and how dream images come together from
things you've seen, read, and experienced both years ago and
yesterday." Translating and combining both found and mental
images into paint with an almost automatist spontaneity, she
explores the invented space of the unconscious rather than the
perspectival space of direct observation. With her swift mark-making
her paintings seem refreshingly unburdened by the weight of
the past and Hellerman is able to move freely between demonstrations
of great facility and a total rejection of it. |
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Edition of the Festival Printemps de Septembre
2011
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Installation view |
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Edition of the Festival Printemps de Septembre
2011
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Installation view |
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Crying For The Sunset
2011
Vilma Gold, London
Installation view |
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Crying For The Sunset
2011
Vilma Gold, London
Installation view |
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Crying For The Sunset
2011
Vilma Gold, London
Installation view |
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The Lucky Hand
2011
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view |
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The Lucky Hand
2011
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view |
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