75. SOPHIE VON
HELLERMAN
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Leading Lady 2001 acrylic on canvas 180 x 260 cm |
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Sophie
Von Hellermann
Postproductionerds 2000 Acrylic on canvas 230 x 320 cm |
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Sophie
Von Hellermann
Cricket 2001 acrylic on canvas 120 x 170 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1975 in Munich, Germany
Nowadays:
Lives and works in London
Studies:
She gained a fine art degree at the Royal College of
Art (London)
Themes and
style:
She is
best known for her large-scale, romantic, pastel-washed canvases, which are
often installed to suggest complex narrative threads. Applying pure pigment on
to unprimed canvas, Hellermann’s use of broad-brushed washes imbue her pictures
with a sense of weightlessness so that objects and figures are spread with ease
and economy across the picture plane. Von Hellermann’s paintings draw upon
current affairs as often and as fluidly as they borrow from the imagery of
classical mythology and literature to create expansive imaginary places. T
Translating and combining both found and mental images
into paint with an almost automatist spontaneity, she explores the invented
space of the unconscious rather than the perspectival space of direct
observation. With her swift mark-making her paintings seem refreshingly
unburdened by the weight of the past and Hellerman is able to move freely
between demonstrations of great facility and a total rejection of it.
Techniques:
Her work
is developed in paintings.
Solo Exhibitions
2005
Sophie von Hellermann, Greene Naftali, New York
2004
On The Ground, Vilma Gold, London
Sophie von Hellermann, Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris
Sophie von Hellermann, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Sophie von Hellermann, Vacio 9, Madrid
2003
Sophie von Hellermann, Jablonka Linn Luhn Jablonka, Cologne
2001
Sophie von Hellermann, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
Vusering Hites, Vilma Gold, London
Saatchi Gallery Presents Sophie von Hellermann, London
Sophie von Hellermann, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Group show, Linn Luhn Jablonka, Cologne
Clarke & McDevitt present, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh
Lane, Dublin
POST MoDERN, Greene Naftali, New York
2004
The Drawing Project, Vamiali's, Athens
Group Show, Marcc Fox, Los Angeles
Mothers, Oh! Art, London
Britannia Works, British Council, Athens
2003
Art and Mountains, The Alpine Club, London
Hydrophobia, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
2002
Dear Painter, paint me..., Pompidou Centre, Paris
Group show, Lombard Freid, New York
Group show, Artagents Gallery Hamburg
Group show, Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris
Mediated Cooperation, collaboration with Johannes Maier
OBERWELTE, Stuttgart, Germany
We all Love... The Mission, London
Electric Show, The Great Eastern Hotel, London
2000
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
1999
Group show , Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Weltausstellung 99/robolove, koelnerstrasse, Dusseldorf
Troublespot.Painting, curated by Luc Tymans and Narcisse
Tordoir
NICC and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium
von Hellermann , Gerhard Richter, Chris Ofili, Paul Morrison,
Michael Raedecker, Luc Tymans, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Marlene Dumas,
Kippenberger, Laurence Weiner,Felix Gonzalez-torres, Elsworth Kelly, Robert
Ryman, Vincent Geyskens, Ugo Rondinone, John Currin, Robert Gober and Andy
Warhol
In her own words:
“What interests
me is how the mind works and how dream images come together from things you’ve
seen, read, and experienced both years ago and yesterday.”
Representative
Galleries:
Saatchi
Vilma Gold
Marc Foxx
Greene Naftali
Kim Kim
Chisenhale
Lee Eugean
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more Information: