POUL GERNES
2010-10-11For the first time this exhibition provides Gernes’ extensive and intensively colored painterly abstractions in a setting commensurate with their spatial dimensions. In the Deichtorhallen it is possible to present his unusually large-format work series in a spacious museum architecture with 3000 square meters. In this way, the monumental scale of Gernes’ pieces that oscillates between abstraction and ornamental design becomes appropriately tangible as an objective of his art.
This exhibition sheds clear light on the important stages in Gernes’ development – from virtually unknown studies from the 1940s to the large-format stylized floral and linear forms that featured in his late flower paintings of the 1990s. Over 400 exhibits provide a comprehensive insight into the art of the Danish painter, sculptor, filmmaker and performing artist Poul Gernes.
Opposite – Target/Skydeskivebillede, 1967
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2011
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Deichtorstr. 1-2
D-20095 Hamburg
Germany
