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Raimer Jochims celebrates his 90th birthday in September. As a prelude to this anniversary year we are very pleased to present Raimer Jochims’ 9th solo exhibition at the gallery.
For over 50 years, Raimer Jochims (b. 1935) has remained committed to painting contemplative, process-based abstractions. His mature work has evolved from his participation in monochromatic and optical painting movements in the 1960s and 70s. Started in 1973, his uniquely shaped paintings originate from studied observations of shapes found within wide ranging source materials such as Buddha statues, Polynesian ancestor figures, Aztec pottery vessels, Egyptian sculptures, and Chinese paintings. He deftly uses small traces of the sources’ forms to make new autonomous works without any obvious references to their origins. Ignoring their historical and geographical differences, his approach assimilates the resulting shapes into innovative abstract...More
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Raimer Jochims celebrates his 90th birthday in September. As a prelude to this anniversary year we are very pleased to present Raimer Jochims’ 9th solo exhibition at the gallery.
For over 50 years, Raimer Jochims (b. 1935) has remained committed to painting contemplative, process-based abstractions. His mature work has evolved from his participation in monochromatic and optical painting movements in the 1960s and 70s. Started in 1973, his uniquely shaped paintings originate from studied observations of shapes found within wide ranging source materials such as Buddha statues, Polynesian ancestor figures, Aztec pottery vessels, Egyptian sculptures, and Chinese paintings. He deftly uses small traces of the sources’ forms to make new autonomous works without any obvious references to their origins. Ignoring their historical and geographical differences, his approach assimilates the resulting shapes into innovative abstract...More
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