Florian Meinsenberg (Online)

12 April - 18 May 2020
Florian Meisenberg indian ink, oil paint on canvas 213 x 160 cm Architecture of Doom (Deadline day), 2020
Florian Meisenberg
indian ink, oil paint on canvas
213 x 160 cm
Architecture of Doom (Deadline day), 2020

Kate MacGarry is pleased to announce a new series of paintings by Florian Meisenberg, due to be exhibited in his third solo show with the gallery in April 2020. Four of the works will be featured on Platform, an online initiative by David Zwirner Gallery, hosting 12 London galleries presenting new works by one artist, launching on Thursday 16 April 2020.

 

In this new series of paintings, Meisenberg conjures a sense of commingled lightness and depth, with a return to dense, multi-layered compositions that echo the perspectival leap between digital and analogue apprehension. Rendered in soft, layered hues, windows and grids replicate themselves in dizzying chains of auto-proliferation, as ‘panes’ of iridescent paint seem to hang suspended above the main action, functioning as screens on which oily fingertips have left cartoonish smudges. Where oil has been allowed to seep through the canvas, the pigment spreads like active fingers of sweat or mould while insects, organs and self-portraits recur in myriad iterations, as if feverishly recalled or only half-remembered. This body of work speaks to Meisenberg's fascination with the deconstruction of identity in a post-corporeal, digitised world.

 

Florian Meisenberg (b. 1980, Berlin) lives and works in New York. Meisenberg studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Peter Doig), 2004-2010. Recent projects, performances and exhibitions include Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2020), Zabludowicz Collection, London (2019), Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig (2019), Berlinskej Model, Prague (2019), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2019), Kunstpalais, Erlangen (2019), WENTRUP, Berlin (2019), Künstlerhaus Bremen, (2019), Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Künste (nGbK), Berlin (2018), François Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2018), Simone Subal, New York City (2018), ICA Philadelphia, (2017), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2016), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2015), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2014), Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2014), Queen’s Musem of Art, New York (2013) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013). Meisenberg opened a two-person show with Anna K.E., Electric Forest (Bowery) at Simone Subal, New York in March (2020). Meisenberg has a forthcoming exhibition at Kunstparterre, Munich (2020) and Avlskarl, Copenhagen (2020).

 

 

Kate MacGarry is pleased to announce Florian Meisenberg’s third solo show at thegallery, comprising a series of paintings on canvas, animation and sculptures affixed totextiles, evoking the fragmentary self-recollection of a beleaguered modern brain.In this new series of paintings, Meisenberg conjures a sense of commingled lightness anddepth, with a return to dense, many-layered compositions that echo the perspectival leapbetween digital and analogue apprehension. Rendered in soft, layered hues, windows andgrids replicate themselves in dizzying chains of auto-proliferation, as ‘panes’ of iridescentpaint seem to hang suspended above the main action, functioning as screens on whichoily fingertips have left cartoonish smudges. Where oil has been allowed to seep throughthe canvas, the pigment spreads like active fingers of sweat or mould whilst insects,organs and self-portraits recur in myriad iterations, as if feverishly recalled or only half-remembered.Alongside the paintings, sculptural renderings of a diminutive avatar-figure litter the walls,swimming on a sea of paint-washed textile. Crafted from painted plaster, the figuresembody the artist in seemingly opposed states of being—alternately hunched over arectangular screen or blossoming with inner life—as the large softened hand thataccompanies these figures (bearing an incongruously placed nose), speaks to his ongoingfascination with the deconstruction of identity in a post-corporeal, digitised world.The brain from which these fragments of floating memory originate is also present inpartial, animated form, delivering a soliloquy that speaks to the fragility of subjectiveexperience whilst sharing space with the products of its own imaginings.Florian Meisenberg, born in 1980 in Berlin, lives and works in New York.

Kate MacGarry is pleased to announce Florian Meisenberg’s third solo show at thegallery, comprising a series of paintings on canvas, animation and sculptures affixed totextiles, evoking the fragmentary self-recollection of a beleaguered modern brain.In this new series of paintings, Meisenberg conjures a sense of commingled lightness anddepth, with a return to dense, many-layered compositions that echo the perspectival leapbetween digital and analogue apprehension. Rendered in soft, layered hues, windows andgrids replicate themselves in dizzying chains of auto-proliferation, as ‘panes’ of iridescentpaint seem to hang suspended above the main action, functioning as screens on whichoily fingertips have left cartoonish smudges. Where oil has been allowed to seep throughthe canvas, the pigment spreads like active fingers of sweat or mould whilst insects,organs and self-portraits recur in myriad iterations, as if feverishly recalled or only half-remembered.Alongside the paintings, sculptural renderings of a diminutive avatar-figure litter the walls,swimming on a sea of paint-washed textile. Crafted from painted plaster, the figuresembody the artist in seemingly opposed states of being—alternately hunched over arectangular screen or blossoming with inner life—as the large softened hand thataccompanies these figures (bearing an incongruously placed nose), speaks to his ongoingfascination with the deconstruction of identity in a post-corporeal, digitised world.The brain from which these fragments of floating memory originate is also present inpartial, animated form, delivering a soliloquy that speaks to the fragility of subjectiveexperience whilst sharing space with the products of its own imaginings.Florian Meisenberg, born in 1980 in Berlin, lives and works in New York.

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