Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London, Berlin 2019 With texts by Omar Berrada
‘At first sight, Pendleton’s series seems to strongly emulate LeWitt’s in its reliance on synecdoche: each Black Dada painting contains a cropped, hence incomplete, Incomplete Open Cube, as well as an incomplete version of the phrase “BLACK DADA”, represented by only a few of its letters, as if gaps had opened up between them. But there are crucial differences. Given LeWitt’s algebraic compulsion, incompleteness notwithstanding, autonomy emerges as an unavowed horizon of his work. “The idea becomes the machine that makes the art”. No such thing with Pendleton, compositional rules notwithstanding. Far from covering over the abyss of irrationality, he homes in on it.’ O. Berrada, ‘Paratactical Haunting: Adam Pendleton’s Diaspora Images’, in Adam Pendleton: Who We Are, exh. cat., Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London, Berlin 2019, p. 170
Publisher: Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London, Berlin Publication date: 2019 Binding: Hardcover Dimensions: 20 x 27 x 2.7 cm Pages: 202 ISBN: 978-3-00-062591-6
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Adam Pendleton (b. 1984) is a New York-based artist who is a central figure amongst a cross-generational group of painters defining the medium as it relates to process and abstraction in the Twenty-First Century. Known for his formally inventive and conceptually rigorous works that blur distinctions between the act of painting, the act of drawing and photography, Pendleton’s paintings and drawings feature a variety of sprayed, stencilled and layered gestures, as well as textural fragments and textual fields. He is decidedly a polymath who edits critical anthologies, makes films and composes site-specific exhibitions and sculptural interventions.
Writing for the New York Times, Siddhartha Mitter described Pendleton’s critically acclaimed 2021 exhibition, Who Is Queen?, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as one that ‘built [its] own museum inside MoMA – an experiment in change from within, offering a radically different method of display from the chronological unfolding of the modernist canon in the institution’s galleries.’
For over a decade, Pendleton has articulated his approach to art through the framework of Black Dada, an evolving enquiry into the relationship between Blackness and abstraction. In 2024, the artist received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Artist page on maxhetzler.com
Who We Are
Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin
2019
Exhibition page on maxhetzler.com
Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin
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