{"id":29,"date":"2009-12-20T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-12-20T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T20:55:00","slug":"helmut-federle-at-peter-blum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Helmut Federle at Peter Blum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/blum_federle-757853.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/blum_federle-757851.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 5 small artworks that make up this show have a presence and gravitas that holds the room.  That&#8217;s no small feat, because in this day of spectacle over quality and loud over quiet, these artworks have a earthy simplicity that belie number and size.<\/p>\n<p>The surface of these paintings &#8211; worked &#8211; possibly overworked with light pushing through the center reveal themselves as quiet objects that insist on your attention. They carry themselves with a quiet grace and at the same time require the viewer to spend real time &#8211; by this I mean more than a cursory glance at the object. They demand almost a short relationship to pull the most out of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>There is a small bit of writing by Robert Storr that was attached to the invite of the show, he mentions the opaque and implacable quality of the works of HF. I agree. The works carry with them a naturalist palette of deep ochres and umbers that bury themselves in the natural world while at the same time reach and achieve something far different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5 small artworks that make up this show have a presence and gravitas that holds the room. That&#8217;s no small feat, because in this day of spectacle over quality and loud over quiet, these artworks have a earthy simplicity that belie number and size. The surface of these paintings &#8211; worked &#8211; possibly overworked with light pushing through the center reveal themselves as quiet objects that insist on your attention. They carry themselves with a quiet grace and at the same time require the viewer to spend real time &#8211; by this I mean more than a cursory glance&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=29\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helmut Federle at Peter Blum<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[144,161,163],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}