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weekend ü Installation view

weekend ü
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2009

weekend ü Installation view

weekend ü
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2009

weekend ü Installation view

weekend ü
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2009

weekend ü Installation view

weekend ü
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2009

hand and foot to mouth

hand and foot to mouth
1989/2003
B/W photographs on PE paper
33.46 x 33.46 x 1.18 inches (framed)

Surfing Matter 2009

Surfing Matter
2009
Wooden laths, screws, balloon chipboard, lacquer, wood
Sculpture: 25.59 x 31.1 x 48.82 inches

weekend ü 2009

weekend ü
2009
Wooden laths, screws, chipboard, lacquer, wood
Sculpture: 41.34 x 31.1 x 61.02 inches

GRAM 2009 Wooden laths, screws, chipboard, lacquer, wood

GRAM
2009
Wooden laths, screws, chipboard, lacquer, wood
Sculpture: 39.37 x 21.65 x 20.47 inches

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
2009
Wooden laths, screws, chipboard, lacquer, wood
Sculpture: 49.21 x 46.46 x 68.5 inches

Priest of Shame

Priest of Shame
2009
Wooden laths, screws, boxing glove, chipboard, lacquer, wood
Sculpture: 45.67 x 32.28 x 29.92 inches

La Consequencia 2009

La Consequencia
2009
Wooden laths, screws, chipboard, lacquer, wood
Sculpture: 31.5 x 39.37 x 43.31 inches

Bluehendes Leben 2009

Bluehendes Leben
2009
Wooden laths, canvas, lacquer, thread, screws
146.85 x 51.97 x 40.16 inches

Flamingo 2007 Wooden laths, canvas, lacquer, thread, screws

Flamingo
2007
Wooden laths, canvas, lacquer, thread, screws
143.7 x 28.74 x 45.28 inches

Master of Harmony

Master of Harmony
2009
Wooden laths, screws, chipboard, lacquer, wood
64.17 x 49.21 x 29.53 inches

Press Release

Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Cologne-based artist Georg Herold's solo exhibition weekend ü. This marks the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery.

The work of Georg Herold has been of international importance for nearly three decades. His past works are best known as large-scale installations made out of seemingly simple materials from daily life such as bricks or bottles. For this exhibition, Herold dominates the gallery space with a range of larger-than-life angular figures made of wood. Each construction assembled of multiple jagged layers of lath screwed together ultimately forms human bodies. Although each sculpture remains true to a post-minimal esthetic, the gestures and actions of the figures allude to some epic struggle: in protest, agony, observation, or seduction with an invisible opponent. Like the past works, the sculptures reach a state that is ambiguous and allows multiple interpretations to be read.

Ever since the late Seventies Georg Herold has played with material and concepts. His interest is constantly rekindled by the changing relationships between society and the art business often integrating a concern for the issues of the day through his sardonic wit. Bricks, mattresses, underwear, vodka bottles, or caviar – regardless of whether the material comes from a lumber shop or specialty store: Georg Herold reframes categorizations and prominent uses of contemporary art with mischievous defiance.

Georg Herold was born in Iena, East Germany in 1947. In the middle and late 70s he studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Art in Hamburg. His most recent solo exhibitions include Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2007) and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (2007).

This will be Georg Herold's second solo exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. The exhibition will open on January 30, with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m., and will be on view through March 21, 2009. Friedrich Petzel Gallery is located at 537 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011. For further information, please contact the gallery at info@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.