Juan Uslé, Serpis, 2, 2018 (detail)

ARCO MADRID 2019 PRevIew Of SeleCteD wORkS

GAleRIe thOMAS SChulte|bOOth 9D0727 febRuARy to 3 MARCh 2019

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ContactGalerie Thomas SchulteCharlottenstraße 2410117 Berlinfon: +49 (0)30 2060 8990fax: +49 (0)30 2060 89910mail@galeriethomasschulte.dewww.galeriethomasschulte.de

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Eike Dürrfeld+49 (172) 30 89 074eike@galeriethomasschulte.de

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Artists on viewAlice AycockAngela de la CruzRichard DeaconHamish FultonAlfredo JaarIdris KhanJonathan Lasker Robert MapplethorpeAllan McCollumMichael MüllerAlbrecht SchniderJuan Uslé

Also representedDieter AppeltDavid HarttJulian IrlingerPaco KnöllerIñigo Manglano-OvalleFabian MarcaccioGordon Matta-ClarkJoão PenalvaDavid ReedLeunora SalihuIris SchomakerKatharina SieverdingPat SteirJonas WeichselStephen WillatsRobert Wilson

This brochure represents a selection of the works at our booth. For further information and to learn more about works which are not shown here, please do not hesitate to contact us. 2,3

Angela de la Cruz (born 1965 in La Coruña, Spain) in her work confronts the boundaries of traditional painting and sculpture by devising works, which are “neither painting nor sculpture but something in between” (Donald Judd). Having been awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásti-cas of her country of origin, Spain, in 2017, her work is currently on view in a major mid-career retrospective at the CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. At the booth at ARCOmadrid 2019 Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present three works from de la Cruz’s Crates series, human scale sculp-tures consisting of hollow aluminum boxes that have been warped to fit into smaller, equally deformed metal filing cabinets.

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Angela de la CruzCrate (Red with Brown Box), 2017Oil and acrylic on aluminum, filing cabinet156 x 78 x 46 cm | 61 1/2 x 30 2/3 x 18 in 6,7

Angela de la CruzCrate (Turquoise), 2017Oil and acrylic on aluminum, filing cabinet165 x 63 x 42 cm | 65 x 24 3/4 x 16 1/2 in

Angela de la CruzCrate (Navy with Green Box), 2017Oil and acrylic on aluminum, filing cabinet161 x 70 x 52 cm | 63 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in 8,9

Juan UsléSerpis, 2, 2018Vinyl dispersion and dry pigment on canvas244 x 153 cm | 96 x 60 1/4 in

The three freestanding sculptures by de la Cruz are accompanied by three large paintings by Juan Uslé. Since the early 1980s, Uslé (born 1954 in Santander, Spain) has sought to create paintings informed by his personal experience, while also reflecting the fundamental rules of his pictorial vocabulary. His most comprehensive series of paintings to date called Soñé que revelabas (I dreamed that you revealed), distills the poetic-emotional conceptualism that permeates the artist’s visual universe down to its essence: the struc-tural conditions of painting and the pictorial process. Each brushstroke is both the indexical image of the painterly gesture and the direct physical representation of the artist’s relationship to his work.

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Juan UsléRaco del Duc, 1 (In Serpis), 2018/19Vinyl dispersion and dry pigment on canvas244 x 153 cm | 96 x 60 1/4 in

Juan UsléRaco del Duc, 2 (In Serpis), 2019Vinyl dispersion and dry pigment on canvas244 x 153 cm | 96 x 60 1/4 in 12,13

Alice AycockProject for Five Wells Descending a Hillside, 1975Set of two drawings, pencil on vellumPaper: 55 x 95 cm | 21 1/2 x 37 1/2 in each

At the booth at ARCOmadrid 2019, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents as a special project an early installation by American artist Alice Aycock (born 1946 in Harrisburg, PA, USA). After studying with Robert Mor-ris at Hunter College during the 1970s, Aycock was one of the youngest members of the circle of artists around Gordon Matta-Clark and New York’s legendary 112 Greene Street Gallery. In the context of Land Art and Postminimalism, Aycock created a series of pioneering installations comprising wood, stone and concrete and moving between sculpture, ar-chitecture and landscape. Alongside Stairs (These Stairs Can Be Climbed) from 1974, photographs documenting her Project for a Circular Building with Narrow Ledges for Walking (1976) will also be on view.

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Alice Aycock Stairs (These Stairs Can Be Climbed), 1974Wood327 x 347 x 305 cm | 128 3/4 x 136 3/4 x 120 in (dimensions variable)Edition 1/2 + 1AP 16,17

Alice Aycock Project for a Circular Building with Narrow Ledges for Walking, 1976 (detail)Set of two drawings, pencil on vellum, four vintage printsVarious dimensions 18,19

British artist and recipient of the 1987 Turner Prize, Richard Deacon (born 1949 in Bangor, Wales), creates sculptures made of wood, which he bends and twists, working the material to its limits. Screws and fittings that secure the pieces are not hidden, but left plainly visible, forming distinctive configurations on the surface of the sculpture. The challenge is work with the smallest possible number of connections, while creating a closed, stable structure. Deacon says: “What seemed to me particularly interesting in the rolling, twisting and bending operations with material was that the enclosure or volume created had nothing to do with weight or mass, it was empty, and therefore connected to meaning in a way that was independent of causality or rationality (that is to say that the outside was not caused by the inside).” This summer, opening in July, Richard Deacon will present his sixth solo exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte.

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Richard DeaconBand, 2009Wood and steel106 x 230 x 85 cm | 41 3/4 x 90 1/2 x 33 1/2 in 22,23

Jonathan Lasker (born 1948 in Jersey City, NJ, USA) is a painter who in the 1980s—while resisting the Lyrical Abstraction, Field Painting, Minimalistmovements—made use of the art world’s conceptual turn, engaging in new possibilities of painting and devising a self-referential system and vocabulary of sign-like shapes and colors. His work has been shown in exhibitions world-wide including The Met, MoMA P.S.1, documenta 9, Museo Reina Sofía, Stedelijk Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Centre Georges Pompidou and the Hayward Gallery. A solo exhibition of new works by Jonathan Lasker will open at Galerie Thomas Schulte on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin in April 2019.

bottom rightJonathan LaskerUntitled, 2005Oil and pigment pen on paper10.5 x 15 cm | 4 1/4 x 6 inFramed: 43.5 x 43.5 cm | 17 x 17 in

top rightJonathan LaskerUntitled, 2005Oil and pigment pen on paper11.5 x 16 cm | 4 1/2 x 6 1/3 inFramed: 43.5 x 43.5 cm | 17 x 17 in

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Jonathan Lasker, For Now or Forever, 2017Oil on linen191 x 254 cm | 75 1/4 x 100 in 26,27

Hamish Fulton (born 1946 in London, England) is a walking artist, who since 1972 has made works based on the experience of walks. Arguing that “walking is an art form in its own right,” Fulton translates his walks into photographs, drawings and wall texts. Although only Fulton himself experiences the walk itself, his works invite the beholder to engage with the lived experience. Under the title A Walking Artist, Galerie Thomas Schulte currently presents in the gallery’s Corner Space a wall painting by the artist, based on two walks in the mountains of Montana in 1997 and on Sardinia in 2014.

Hamish Fulton, A Walking Artist, exhibition view at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (26 January to 9 March 2019)

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Hamish FultonFootpath A 23 Day Coast To Coast Walk Through The Pyrenees From The Atlantic Ocean To The Mediterranean Sea France And Spain Summer 2012, 2012Photograph, acid-free cardboard40 x 31.5 cm | 15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inFramed: 84.5 x 73.5 x 5 cm | 33 1/4 x 29 x 2 inUnique

Hamish FultonMount Fuji, 19882-part work, text on wood9.5 x 24.3 cm | 3 3/4 x 9 1/2 in 30,31

Michael MüllerPink Behind Black, 2017Acrylic on glassFramed: 72.5 x 52 cm | 28 1/2 x 20 1/2 in

Michael Müller (born 1970 in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany) is a con-ceptual artist whose manifold, proliferating oeuvre cannot be ascribed to any one-way interpretation. He continuously broadens the methods of his artistic expression, combining works on paper with painting, text-based work, sculpture, found objects, music, and performance. Müller received great critical and curatorial attention for his cycle Eighteen Exhibitions, begun in 2013 with Galerie Thomas Schulte. In the summer of 2017, the cycle ended after a total of 33 individual exhibition projects and four per-formances that took place at the gallery, the KW Institute for Contempo-rary Art in Berlin (2015/16) and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2016/17). Most recently, Müller has been invited by Städtische Galerie Wolfs-burg to make a personal selection from the holdings of the museum and over the course of two years to newly stage the selected works for the audience.

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Michael MüllerTokyo, 2017Acrylic on glass and canvas180 x 140 cm | 70 3/4 x 55 inFramed: 183 x 143.5 x 5.5 cm | 72 x 56 1/2 x 2 1/4 in 34,35

Many of Alfredo Jaar’s (born 1956 in Santiago de Chile) early works made when he was still living in Santiago came in the shape of performances or interventions in the public space, and to this day site-specific works continue to be central to his practice. Telecomunicación (1981) is a work he produced from a press cutting. The image that gave Alfredo Jaar his idea for this urban intervention car-ried the following caption: “‘Telecommunication’—In Belfast, in Northern Ireland, women perform the ancient ritual of striking the ground with dustbin lids to announce the death of another IRA hunger striker, Thomas McElwee, in the Maze prison.” In the city center of Santiago, in the back lanes, up an alley, on the pavement of one of the city’s main thorough-fares, Jaar would line up six bin lids just for the time it took to take the photograph, a transient urban performance, the pictures of which remain deeply moving in their simplicity, frailty, and poetry. Insignificant, furtive signs in the urban landscape, these lids reveal the impossibility of any other form of protest, any other form of representation in the public space under the dictatorship. (Nicole Schweizer) Alfredo Jaar has been awarded the 2019 Josef Svoboda Prize for Ar-tistic and Creative Talent as well as a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata.

Alfredo JaarTelecomunicación, 198118 digital prints9 frames, each 87 x 62.9 cm 34 1/4 x 24 3/4 inEdition 1/3 + 2AP

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Idris KhanMoments of Calm, 2018With red oil based ink stamped glass, on gessoed aluminum panel83 x 77.2 x 9 cm | 32 2/3 x 30 1/2 x 3 1/2 in

British artist Idris Khan OBE (born 1978, Birmingham, England) in the last few years has become one of the UK’s most successful young artists and with his photographic and video works, paintings, sculptures, and works on glass has also gained great international acclaim. In 2017, he was awarded the American Architecture Prize for the design of his Me-morial Monument and Pavilion of Honour in the new Memorial Park in Abu Dhabi. Recently, in October 2018, he revealed a major commission of twenty-one paintings, which are on display in The British Museum. In his works on glass, Khan overlays thousands of lines of writing until all of the words meld into a single image. This multilayered approach creates a sense of expanded time, allowing the viewer to contemplate a deeper meaning buried within language. Through a continuous process of creating and erasing, adding new layers, whilst retaining traces of what has been, Khan creates something entirely new by way of superimposition and repetition.

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Allan McCollum (born 1944 in Los Angeles, CA, USA), is among the best and most profound American conceptual artists and has been represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte for almost 30 years. During the late 1970s, Allan McCollum began to develop one of the primary concerns of his practice: the creation of new roles and identifications for viewers as opposed to art‘s val-uations of producer and receiver. His artistic work is defined by his occupa-tion with the phenomenon of individuality within mass quantities as a socio-logical issue and the artistic problem of exploring identity and individuality. The Shapes Project marked a new beginning for Allan McCollum—also within the continued experimenting in a greater distribution of art works. The series, begun in 2005, is based on a system developed by the artist of combinable silhouette-like components. He can thus, with 300 individual components, produce millions of combinations and ultimately match an individual shape to each living person. Out of these approxi-mately 31 billion shapes, the artist has set aside the potential of 214 million with which to work.

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Allan McCollum The Shapes Project, Collection of One Hundred and Forty-four Monoprints, 2006Laser prints on acid-free paper, each unique, signed and numbered individually(144 x) 14.7 x 11 x 0.5 cm | 5 3/4 x 4 1/3 x 1/4 in 42,43

Albrecht SchniderOhne Titel, 2018Pen on paper20.5 x 14.5 cm | 8 x 5 2/3 inFramed: 41.4 x 33 x 3.5 cm | 16 1/3 x 13 x 1 1/3 in

As an artist, Albrecht Schnider (born 1958 in Lucerne, Switzerland) considers himself first and foremost a draughtsman. Both his precise, abstract paintings and sculptural objects take as their source the delicate explorations of shifting planes and geometric forms found in his drawings. Though the artist’s paintings demonstrate a restrained elegance, their source drawings, swiftly sketched at the end of each day in the studio, are products of a spontaneous, intuitive process. While many of these drawings simply remain exercises, never emerging from their sketchbook, others are singled out by the artist for further exploration. In January 2019, a documentary on the artist by Swiss film maker Rita Ziegler was released. The film “Beyond the Vanished” does not only deal with the artist’s intimate, occasionally agonizing struggle for every picture, but also with the very personal act of perception itself.

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Robert MapplethorpeGrace Jones, 1988Silver gelatin print57 x 47.5 cm | 22 1/2 x 18 2/3 inFramed: 87.5 x 73.5 cm | 34 1/2 x 29 inEdition 1/10, Estate signed

Finally, on view at the booth will be a selection of works by star photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (born 1946 in New York City; died 1989 in Boston, MA, USA) whose sustained legacy in 2019 is celebrated at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York with a yearlong exhibition of the artist’s early Polaroids and collages to his iconic, classicizing photographs of male and female nudes, flowers, and statuary, portraits of celebrities, and his more explicit depictions of the S&M underground.

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Robert MapplethorpeFlower Arrangement, 1984Platinum print59.5 x 49.5 cm | 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inFramed: 87.5 x 73.5 cm | 34 1/2 x 29 inEdition 2/3, signed by the artist and dated

Robert MapplethorpeAlistair Butler / Torso, 1980Silver gelatin print35 x 35 cm | 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 inFramed: 63 x 63 cm | 24 3/4 x 24 3/4 inEdition 4/15, signed by the artist 48,49

PublisherGalerie Thomas Schulte GmbHCharlottenstraße 2410117 Berlinfon: +49 (0)30 2060 8990fax: +49 (0)30 2060 89910mail@galeriethomasschulte.dewww.galeriethomasschulte.de

Photo CreditsRobert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used with permission. (pp. 47, 48/49)

© 2019 the artists, the photographers and Galerie Thomas Schulte

This dossier was published on the occasion of ARCOmadrid 2019.