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SELF PORTRAIT INSTALLATION: 1987-2018 AND PAINTINGS: PAT STEIR, CHARLOTTENSTRASSE,

28 April TO 30 June 2018

SELF PORTRAIT INSTALLATION: 1987-2018 AND PAINTINGS: PAT STEIR

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  • Introduction
    SELF PORTRAIT INSTALLATION: 1987-2018 AND PAINTINGS, PAT STEIR
    For decades, Pat Steir has been an important fixture in the New York art scene. With her specific concept-oriented approach Steir can be seen in the tradition of abstract painting à la Jackson Pollock, a heritage which she combines with her expertise in Chinese painting traditions. Her famous Waterfalls, which the artist developed in the late 1980s, have been interpreted as an homage to Pollock reinventing the drip as a means for the paint to paint a picture of itself. Since around 2000 Steir has developed an ever more subtle method using the process of dripping to create a delicate interwoven curtain-like surface texture which has been the basis for many paintings of the years to come. Large-scale works like Dusk (2007) and The Dark (2007), which are on view in this exhibition, are examples for this technique, while works like So Long Black, Silver and White (2009) and So Long Black, Red, Yellow and Blue (2009) take this approach into her so-called Split Surface Paintings which pay homage to Barnett Newman and have been a prominent feature among her works of the last decade.

    Beginning in 1971, Pat Steir has executed numerous wall installations in museums, institutions and art galleries around the world including prestigious venues like the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Grazer Kunstverein and the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon. Self Portrait is Steir’s third wall drawing at Galerie Thomas Schulte and one of her most successful wall projects. It was first realized at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1987 and subsequently presented, in modified form, in venues across the world. By presenting a multitude of facial features taken from Renaissance sample books Steir’s Self Portrait clearly eschews any conventional kind of self-regard, having instead to do with Buddhist notions of non-self. The artist describes the work “as if the walls of the room were the inside of the skin of a person, the space inside your head and body, rather than an inventory of surface appearances observed from the outside.” By having a team of other artists and students do the actual drawing, the artist’s touch is deliberately depersonalized.
  • Works
    • Pat Steir Self Portrait acrylic paint , Wax pastel , pencil 900 x 1133 cm 354 5/16 x 446 1/16 ins
      Pat Steir
      Self Portrait
      acrylic paint , Wax pastel , pencil
      900 x 1133 cm 354 5/16 x 446 1/16 ins
    • PSTE_GTS_61_t
      Pat Steir
      White Moon Edge, 2006
      Oil on canvas
      182.9 x 182.9 cm 72 1/16 x 72 1/16 ins
    • PSTE_97
      Pat Steir
      For Philadelphia Two, 2013
      oil on canvas
      157.48 x 157.48 cm 62 x 62 ins
    • PSTE_99
      Pat Steir
      Dusk, 2007
      oil on canvas
      340.36 x 546.1 cm 134 x 215 ins
    • PSTE_98
      Pat Steir
      The Dark, 2007
      oil on canvas
      340.36 x 546.1 cm 134 x 215 ins
    • PSTE_87
      Pat Steir
      So Long Black, Red, Yellow and Blue, 2009
      oil on canvas
      233.68 x 332.74 cm 92 x 131 ins
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      Pat Steir
      So Long Black, Silver and White, 2009
      oil on canvas
      233.68 x 332.74 cm
      92 x 131 in
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