Christian Hutzinger

• 24.10.–25.11.2006

From October 24 until November 25, 2006, Galerie Martin Janda is showing new works by Christian Hutzinger. In addition to large-format acrylic paintings, a new series of collages is on display on the gallery’s upper level.

The artist’s new works break with some of the principles of earlier works. The expanded palette is apparent right away. In the past it was limited to toned-down, mixed colours; his new works convincingly employ the full spectrum of colour on a black background. In Hutzinger’s work, space is hinted at; it is more visual conjecture than comprehensible composition. Perfect forms in intense colours stacked one on top of the other are stabilised by a vertical line, as rod or framework. In the next painting, this apparent rigidity and structure is reworked. The forms become jumbled; structuring principles are dispensed with altogether.

Two works from early this year refine a system which Hutzinger has been involved with in the recent past: the surface of a wall or image is defined as cross-section of a vessel, then filled with a wide range of forms. The representation of everyday objects and intimations of landscape are reduced to a bare minimum. A vertical form and rectangles with rounded corners call to mind a tree which has lost its leaves or fruit. “A strange world which grows and falls apart again” emerges. (Christian Hutzinger)
Christian Hutzinger intentionally applies divergent composition principles and methods of arriving at form in the different media: drawings, acrylic paintings and murals follow different "linguistic" strategies. In the drawings, the artist brings background patterns into play in order to construct spaces which he furnishes with chairs, tables and other everyday objects. In the coinciding drawings the objects are suspended, detached from the still indecipherable space.