ANDREAS FISCHER’S “UNTIL THE MOSS HAD REACHED OUR LIPS AND COVERED UP OUR NAMES” OPENING 2/26/09.
"Sunday Best", 2008
Andreas Fischer has long used exaggerated proportions, oversimplified palette and strokes, and unexpected perspectives to create a straight to the point aphorism of class, culture and identity. He’s brilliant. Fischer’s latest solo exhibition “Until the Moss Had Reached Our Lips and Covered Up Our Names” is a shadowy collection of portraits and landscapes. It’s worth a viewing.
“Andreas Fischer's new paintings are ghostly portraits accompanied by imagined landscapes evoking the province of the 19th-century American West. Under a title by Emily Dickinson, the exhibition's paintings reference human histories forgotten and nature reclaimed. Instead of naming the sitters in his portraits, Fischer underscores the distance between their images and
their long-forgotten narratives by giving the paintings all the same title, "Sunday Best." Because the subjects are rendered anonymous, Fischer's variety of paint application and somber palette provide substance to these poignant and mottled figures. Fischer's complementary landscapes furnish settings for the figures and their bygone grandiose visions for the American West.”
Andreas Fischer, "Until the Moss Has Reached Our Lips and Covered Up Our Names"
Opening February 26th, 6— 8pm
508 W. 26th St, Suite 318
212.741.1189
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