{"id":33983,"date":"2016-07-20T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=33983"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:29:41","slug":"frank-stella-sprueth-magers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/frank-stella-sprueth-magers\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Stella Melds Painting and Sculpture in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FINAL-FST_Odelsk-I.jpg\" alt=\"Feature &quot;Odeslk I&quot;, 1971, by Frank Stella at Spr\u00fcth Magers\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1013\" \/> &#8220;Odeslk I&#8221;, 1971, Frank Stella at Spr\u00fcth Magers. Image courtesy of the artist &amp; Spr\u00fcth Magers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBack in the 1970s Frank Stella created \u201cPolish Village\u201d, a modernist series that explores the representation of synagogues destroyed by the Nazis in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since the beginning of Stella\u2019s career, he has been admired for his uncomplicated views on what art is and what it represents. \u201cYou don\u2019t look at \u2018Polish Villages\u2019 as abstract paintings, you think of them as a problem,\u201d said Stella. \u201cYou have to look at it and see what the point of it is\u201d. His point in exploring three-dimensional reliefs relates to painting, sculpture and architecture, which the artist thinks is what art-making is about. In the series, each relief is named after a now\u00a0non-existent village, which is something that encouraged Stella to deepen his original approach of reshaping canvases to then paint and cover with two-dimensional collages. His persistent investigations gave the works in \u201cPolish Village\u201d a three-dimensional scope, making this post-war series a turning point in his career.<br \/>\nThis series is also currently on show in Berlin alongside the \u201cBali\u201d series. The American painter and printmaker specifically selected these two projects in order to merge two distinctive geographies, times, and styles in one single space and time. Composed of large-scale, geometric paintings and\u00a0spatial\u00a0sculptures, both sets of works explore\u00a0materiality and texture while pushing the limits of two-dimensional space by juxtaposing 3D geometric shapes or breaking up the canvases&#8217; original mould.<br \/>\nIn \u201cBali\u201d the artist found inspiration through anthropological images he sourced from Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson\u2019s studies about Balinese children. The works made in the Noughties display immense contemporaneity and his affinity with relief-making. The curvilinear forms Stella produced for this series are reminiscent of human poses, and by arbitrarily using materials found throughout the island he aims to show us what the locals see everyday.<br \/>\nAt the exhibition in Spr\u00fcth Magers Berlin the pieces exhibited \u2013 though from two distinctly different periods\u00a0in the artist\u2019s oeuvre\u00a0\u2013 create\u00a0a cohesion that accentuates his progression, while challenging the notions of time and space, which have turned Stella into a household name in abstract art.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FINAL-FRANK-STELLA.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Stella at Spr\u00fcth Magers\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> (Left) &#8220;Gisiang&#8221;, 2007, by Frank Stella, at Spr\u00fcth Magers. Photo by: Joshua White, 2016. (Right) &#8220;Olkienniki III&#8221;, 1972, by Frank Stella at Spr\u00fcth Magers. Image courtesy of the artist &amp; Spr\u00fcth Magers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>&#8220;Frank Stella&#8221;\u00a0is on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spruethmagers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spr\u00fcth Magers<\/a>, Berlin, until 3 September<\/b> \n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time Berliners are able to see the &#8216;Bali&#8217; and &#8216;Polish Village&#8217; series in one place<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[38,5046,34,1072,5047,5048,5049,5050,793],"class_list":["post-33983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-art","tag-bali-series","tag-berlin","tag-exhibition","tag-frank-stella","tag-mixed-media","tag-polish-village-series","tag-post-war-art","tag-spruth-magers"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Frank Stella Melds Painting and Sculpture in Berlin Frank Stella Melds Painting and Sculpture in Berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/frank-stella-sprueth-magers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frank Stella Melds Painting and Sculpture in Berlin Frank Stella Melds Painting and Sculpture in Berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the first time Berliners are able to see the &#039;Bali&#039; and &#039;Polish Village&#039; series in one place\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/frank-stella-sprueth-magers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-20T13:29:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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