Anton Henning exhibits paintings, sculptures and furniture in a new exhibition at Tim Van Laere Gallery
Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Anton Henning's third solo exhibition with the gallery.
Henning (° 1964 Berlin, lives and works in Berlin and Manker) works in various media and his oeuvre includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, drawings, films, photographs, musical pieces and entire environments. His works can be seen as a contemporary interpretation of the Gesamtkunstwerk. This exhibition, which includes new paintings, sculptures and furniture, can also be seen as a total installation.
Breaking through the limits of traditional genres in this way is characteristic of this artist. In combination with Henning’s light palette of broken colours — in this exhibition pink is the dominant colour — he thereby creates a total setting in which you could feel at home, but that also has a surprising effect of strangeness. It is reminiscent of a fairly recent past, but is nevertheless unmistakably contemporary. Whether the result of the use of all these various elements can be called free or applied art is left unanswered.
Henning's spatial installations have drawn international attention since the 1980s and his work has been included in the collections of, among others, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, De Pont in Tilburg, National Museum of Art in Osaka, LACMA in Los Angeles, Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
His work connects apparent opposites, in a humorous combination of "high" and "low" culture. Henning thus exhibits all cultural clichés and rejects any notion of "good taste". In the space that he creates high and low can meet seamlessly. At the same time, his work expresses a relentless (self) ridicule and ambiguity, and an almost loving precision. Henning’s post-postmodernistic approach doesn’t quote. It is humorous and yet dead serious. It digs out the left-out chances and possibilities which modernistic dogmas and arrogance left us to grasp. What’s important to Henning are the transitions, passages, variations and transformations. It is not about eclecticism, quotation or nostalgia.
Anton Henning: Pink Period
5 December 2019 - 18 January 2020
Tim Van Laere Gallery
Jos Smolderenstraat 50, Antwerp
www.timvanlaeregallery.com
Images here
Anton Henning is one of a number of German artists to receive considerable international recognition. Numerous publications are a challenge and inspiration for a whole generation of young painters. Anton Henning's works are represented in numerous international public and private collections, a.o. MOCA (Los Angeles), Centre National des Arts (Paris), Magasin III (Stockholm), Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), The Menil Collection (Houston), De Pont (Tilburg), National Museum of Art (Osaka), Arp Museum, (Rolandseck, Remagen), Daros Collection (Zurich), Essl Museum (Klosterneuburg), Los Angeles County Museum of Art | LACMA (Los Angeles), Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main), Portland Art Museum (Portland), SMAK (Gent), Städel Museum (Frankfurt am Main), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Valencia Art Contemporaneo (Valencia).