For Now or Forever (detail), 2017, oil on linen 191 x 254 cm | 75 1/4 x 100 in

JONATHAN LASKERRECENT PAINTINGS

GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE27 APRIL to 29 JUNE 2019

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Galerie Thomas Schulte presents an exhibition with new paintings by the New York-based artist Jonathan Lasker (born 1948 in New Jersey City, NJ, USA). Lasker made use of the art world’s conceptual turn in the 1980s, engaging in new possibilities of painting, and so developing the abstract formal idiom that has come to characterize his oeuvre. Resisting the Lyrical Abstraction, Field Painting and Minimalist movements of the 1970s, Lasker saw himself confronted with the challenge of pictorial invention. As an answer to this quest, he devised a self-referential system using a vocabulary of sign-like shapes and colors. The formal language of his paintings is abstract, while the visual means range from simple line drawings to thick paste-like applications of paint. While Lasker mostly works with large-scale formats, he also explores smaller compositions. His small maquettes allow for precise attention to detail, which the artist subsequently reproduces in his large-scale paintings. Thus Lasker turns the organic, subjective and gestural pictorial idiom of painting into an increasingly intellectual process.

Jonathan Lasker studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City between 1975 and 1977, and at the California Institute of the Arts in 1977. In 2000 he was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at The Lon-don Institute. Notable solo exhibitions include shows at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne (2015), K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Museo Reina Sofía (2003), the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (1997/98), and the Stedelijk Museum (1998). Selected group exhibitions include the Neue Galerie in Kassel (2011/12), Pinakothek der Moderne (2009), MUDAM, Luxembourg (2008), Centre Georges Pompidou (2007), “la Caixa” Foundation in Barcelona (2002), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, St. Étienne (1997), Hayward Gallery (1994), Documenta (1992), and MoMA P.S.1 (1992). His work is included in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, The British Library, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Daros Collection, Fond National d’Art Contemporain, “la Caixa” Foundation, LACMA, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, Mod-erna Museet, Museo Reina Sofía, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, New York Public Library, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Jonathan Lasker lives and works in New York City.

Gonzalo Alarcón+49 (173) 66 46 623gonzalo@galeriethomasschulte.de

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

Luigi Nerone+49 (172) 30 89 076luigi@galeriethomasschulte.de

Juliane Pönischjuliane@galeriethomasschulte.de

ContactGalerie Thomas SchulteCharlottenstraße 24D-10117 Berlinfon: +49 (0)30 2060 8990fax: +49 (0)30 2060 89910mail@galeriethomasschulte.dewww.galeriethomasschulte.de

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right Platonic Landscape, 2018Oil on linen152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

following pagesFor Now or Forever, 2017Oil on linen191 x 254 cm | 75 1/4 x 100 in

The Remnant of Spirit, 2015Oil on linen191 x 254 cm | 75 1/4 x 100 in

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right Ideal Interior (detail), 2018Oil on linen152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

following pagesIdeal Interior, 2018Oil on linen152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

top rightYet Untitled, 2018Oil on linen30 x 41 cm | 12 x 16 in

bottom rightYet Untitled, 2018Oil on linen 30 x 41 cm | 12 x 16 in

following pagesLasker, 2019Oil on linen152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

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The Revisionist´s Memory, 2017Oil on linen191 x 191 cm | 75 1/4 x 75 1/4 in

PublisherGalerie Thomas Schulte GmbHCharlottenstraße 24D-10117 Berlinfon: +49 (0)30 20 60 89 90www.galeriethomasschulte.de

© 2019 the artist, the photographers and Galerie Thomas Schulte

This dossier was published on the occasion of the upcoming exhibition by Jonathan Lasker (27 April to 29 June 2019).