Exhibition Peter Helly Gallery Harry Tatintsian
ARTinvestment.RU   21 сентября 2010

Peter Halle is not only an artist but also an art historian, philosopher, author of articles and monographs, enthusiastic teacher.

Today, September 21, at Harry Tatintsian Gallery (Moscow, Ilinka, 3 /8) opens an exhibition by Peter Halle. This is an artist, art historian, philosopher, author of articles and monographs, and enthusiastic teacher, always pursued by a flock hears his students, a successful publisher.

Peter received an excellent education. First - in the Massachusetts Academy, where there were strong traditions of Bauhaus and stimulated interest in the creativity of the leaders of American abstract art of Jackson Pollock and Frank Stella. Then - Faculty of Arts at Yale University. Next - The University of New Orleans. The end of 1970 was a period of searching, comprehending an entirely different visual traditions during numerous trips to Europe, Mexico, Central America and North Africa.

the basis of abstract thinking from the outset lay man's desire to clean, even if unattainable, climbing to the top. Care in the abstraction was a way of salvation from the onslaught on all fronts of our life dirt, debris, infection. "The atmosphere in the studio of contemporary artist should be as pure as a mountain peak covered with eternal snows. The cold kills germs "- wrote the artist Theo van Doesburg.

geometry as the embodiment of clear relationships, clear corners and divisions, straight lines for a long time, allows a person to feel like masters of their own lives, not to answer existential questions establish its status, to find salvation from the chaos and frightening irrationality.

Company makes various scale of the cell, clearly divided by verticals and horizontals. Tracks, highways, neighborhoods transformed into a geometric scheme for the landscape. Geometric House, geometric schemes entangle the entire space of human existence. In geometric patterns add up pipelines, telephone wires, all communications systems.

geometrism Peter Helly returns to these issues. His work - a critique of mechanization and commercialization of the modern world. Seeing in the geometric construction of a metaphor for our society, Helly makes the picture - description of the social landscape of human isolation and connectivity. Simple diagrammatic structure in his paintings are a means of dramatizing the political and social life.

philosophical ideas Helly formed the basis for the motion neogeometricheskogo conceptualism (Neo-Geometric Conceptualism). During this time he worked closely with Jeff Koons and Ashley Bickerton.

the second half of 1990 to the Helly comes the international recognition and begin an active exhibition activities all over the world. In Halle - great sense of style, amazing visibility and found. Even under the most closely and critically look at them no questions. Here are all in place - composition, proportion, severity and sophistication of the picture, a variety of textures, bold colors and harmonious combinations.

exhibition runs until November 20, 2010.

Source: artinfo.ru