Veröffentlicht am 05.09.2014
James Kalm is back in the saddle and
back in the mean streets of Chelsea for the beginning of the 2014 Fall
art season. Due to a late start, your correspondent slips into the
Zach Feuer Gallery long after closing time, and takes in a nonstop
viewing of "Early Hand" the forth exhibition by VanDerBeek with the
gallery. These hybrid works are a conglomeration of techniques and
materials. Employing intentionally primitive and primordial imagery,
VanDerBeek cast gushes of colored Aqua-Resin, fiberglass and silicon
paint into mould like frames, then scrapes and paints over areas of the
resultant slabs. The pictures and sculpture have a child like
simplicity combined with a visual weight and mass that recalls
industrial waste. There is also a broad echo of art historical
precedents that encompasses cave painting, German Expressionism, Art
Brut and the contemporary Abject Art.
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