Published by Verlag Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Cologne 2023 Released by Kunsthalle Düsseldorf GmbH, Gregor Jansen, and Alicia Holthausen
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter (together with Carina Brandes and Florian Krewer) at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 10 December 2022 – 19 February 2023. The catalogue includes an introduction text by director Gregor Jansen and curator Alicia Holthausen as well as interviews with the artists, with carefully selected questions extracted from Questionnaire by Max Frisch (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag 1984).
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König Publication date: 2023 Design: Thomas Spallek Binding: Softcover, 138 pages Dimensions: 22 x 31.5 x 1 cm ISBN: 978-3-7533-0373-4
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Raphaela Simon (b. 1986) is known for her paintings of simple, non-distinct forms set against monochromatic backdrops. To make these, the artist works in several stages, overpainting and modifying elements in a slow, continuous process. Simon generates forms of palimpsest, with colours shining through the different layers, adding nuances to the compositions. Often evoking portraits, Simon’s works are titled after ordinary objects and motifs, thereby suggesting a latent figurative potential; through this action, the artist plays with the desire of the viewer to imbue abstract forms with meaning. Since 2018, Simon has also been creating elaborate objects and figures in fabric which, carefully staged, develop their own narration and a dialogue with the works on canvas. ‘[Simon] explores the territory between representation and pure abstraction […]. She cherry-picks ideas about simple geometries (and stripes) from Peter Halley, Frank Stella and Agnes Martin, but filters them through her own notions of wit, scale, materials and abbreviation. It is of utmost importance that her oil surfaces are layered, which gives them solidity, and that the edges of her many stripes rarely seem ruled, which gives them life.’ R. Smith, in The New York Times, 2018
Artist page on maxhetzler.com
Es liebt Dich und Deine Körperlichkeit ein Verwirrter (with Carina Brandes and Florian Krewer)
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
2022
Exhibition page on maxhetzler.com