ALEX HUBBARD – PRIVATE LIVES
2018-03-12Hubbard’s practice unites both disciplines in a symbiotic way whereby the examination of the performative process and its physicality are equally at the center. Three large-format paintings made of layers of pigmented urethane, resin, and fiberglass are at the core of this exhibition. Underlying stencil drawings are being washed-out by layers of synthetic materials. Its temporality withdraws every deliberation and explores accidental compositions, colors, and depths, typically found in the work of Hubbard. In juxtaposition are four small-scale cabinet pieces, oscillating the instability between painting and sculpture on one hand and abstraction and figuration on the other. Each shadow box reveals behind semi-drawn curtains a painting – both abstract and representational. Framed by shapes and colors of outdated wallpaper they presume a continuation of the domestic space apparent in the artist’s Bar Paintings whilst introducing an unprecedented intimacy inherent in each cabin. The question of the supremacy of painting, of what abstraction is today, and the re-examination of Hubbard’s own practice prevails.
Opposite – Constantly Native, 2018
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2018
Galerie Neu
Linienstraße 119 abc
10115 Berlin
Germany
