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PIOT BREHMER REMOVES CONTEXT, AMPLIFIES FRICTION "Summer Drawing Show" Challenges Artists to Arrive at Personal Definition of the Genre, July 12 - August 16, 2008
Piot Brehmer - Landungen und Maedchen Brehemer's method isn't just reserved for women. In his "Landungen" series, the artist inverts his intimate scale into a massive abstraction of an already abstracted space. Landing strips are specifically the space in between things. They represent the arrival and departure points for travel and adventure, dismay and dread, longing and hope. Standing in front of Brehmer's "Landungen" paintings, the viewer is caught in the holding pattern, awaiting his or her own arrival, suspended mid-flight, making a literal translation of the ambiguity and detachment of the Maedchen paintings. Lights are blurred, doubled and tripled, lines are skewed, and explicit three-dimensional geographies are reduced to a two-dimensional darkness dotted by singular, colored points. As in his depiction of human subjects, context is again lost and in its place is a surface of tension. With Brehmer's "Landungen" works, the viewer is thrust into the seats of a plane spinning ever closer toward an indiscernible horizon. Piot Brehemer's "Landungen und Maedchen" is on view at Samuel Freeman until July 5, 2008. Summer Drawing Show
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