KARL MARTIN HOLZHAUSER – LICHTMALERI
2019-02-04The show will feature Holzhäuser’s vintage “light paintings” (“Lichtmaleri”) from the 1980s and early 1990s, a period in which the artist was a chief practitioner of Concrete Photography.
Holzhäuser’s “paintings with light” align themselves with the tenets of Concrete Photography as nonobjective pictorial worlds, devoid of any intentional reference to figuration or reality. Wielding “the light rake” (“Lichtrakel”), a light-emitting tool of his own fabrication, the artist exposes sensitized chromogenic photographic papers to light bands of varying color and width, building abstractions from a predetermined series of gestures. Holzhäuser works in total darkness without the benefit of seeing what has been exposed until after the picture is developed, making visible the gridded patterns or organic shapes mapped or memorized by the artist in advance.
Opposite – 13.1-12.1985
Exhibition runs through to February 23rd, 2019
Yossi Milo Gallery
245 10th Avenue
New York
10001 NY
