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Cold Hope, Anne Imhof’s fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Buchholz, presents a group of new large format paintings. The works are based on film stills the artist photographed on a screen, inciting blurs, veils, and wave-like pixel structures in a moiré effect. The resulting images are digitally reworked and then translated into paintings in oil on canvas. Through multiple instances of translation, these images circulate across diverse surfaces and techniques of representation. In these transfers and translations, the paintings shift toward abstraction, altering the conditions of their viewing and the structures of attention in which they exist.
The paintings in Cold Hope were developed concurrently with Anne Imhof’s new performance Doom - House of Hope and can be seen as its painterly counterpart. Doom - House of Hope, an epic performance that premiered at New York’s Park Avenue Armory earlier this year, represents Imhof’s largest...More
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Cold Hope, Anne Imhof’s fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Buchholz, presents a group of new large format paintings. The works are based on film stills the artist photographed on a screen, inciting blurs, veils, and wave-like pixel structures in a moiré effect. The resulting images are digitally reworked and then translated into paintings in oil on canvas. Through multiple instances of translation, these images circulate across diverse surfaces and techniques of representation. In these transfers and translations, the paintings shift toward abstraction, altering the conditions of their viewing and the structures of attention in which they exist.
The paintings in Cold Hope were developed concurrently with Anne Imhof’s new performance Doom - House of Hope and can be seen as its painterly counterpart. Doom - House of Hope, an epic performance that premiered at New York’s Park Avenue Armory earlier this year, represents Imhof’s largest...More
