Thilo HEINZMANN

We, Rivers & Mountains

solo show

13 April 2017 - 18 May 2017

Seoul

1F 5 Palpan-gil, Jongno-gu Seoul South Korea

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103 people attended the opening.
633 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 36 days.
Daily average 18 visitors per day including opening, 15 per day excluding opening.

Perrotin Seoul is pleased to announce “We, Rivers & Mountains”, Thilo Heinzmann’s first solo show in Seoul. Heinzmann is a painter in the emphatic sense of the word, fully invested in reinventing and recalibrating that medium’s capacities, while keeping a keen eye on that artform’s rich history. One of the central tenets of Heinzmann’s work lies in revisiting painting’s Western tradition with both of its prime historical momentums in view: painting as the superior medium for showing the world; and, after it had achieved its momentous triumph in retreating to its own means, painting as the field for a powerful interaction of form, color, texture, surface, after the rupture of abstraction. Heinzmann’s work revisits this epochal break and harnesses it into a dichotomy that his art elegantly puts into play. […]