Events/Openings

The gallery is very pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Hamburg based artist Patrick Gabler presenting new works from his series “Circle and Cosmos”. The artist will be present at the opening.

The highlights of Gabler’s exhibition are three monumental works: two woodcuts (200 x 140 cm; edition 3, 2014) as well as the ink drawing “Youkobo II” (200 x 136 cm, 2013). Furthermore, two portfolios of drypoint etchings will be exhibited. Given their dimensions (8 x 6 to 18 x 13 cm), these works have the characteristics of miniatures and reveal another aspect of the series.

The attraction between the two poles, Murano and Youkobo, between Italy and Japan, originated Patrick Gabler’s current works. They are inspired both thematically and technically by these two places and recall the swirling Japanese streams or the bubbling clusters of clouds in Baroque Italian landscape drawings. All of the works in the series make reference to the reduced geometric charts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages with their tradition of representing the sky or cosmos in a circular shape.

Patrick Gabler, born in 1967 in Munich, lives and works in Hamburg. As an artist in residence he worked in 2012 at the Venice Printmaking Studio in Venice and in 2013 at the Youkobo Artspace in Tokyo. His drawings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are represented in public collections, such as the Kuperstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen in Berlin and the Achenbach Collection, at the Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco. In 2012 at the gallery Jordan/Seydoux he exhibited two large-format ink drawings from the series “Circle and Cosmos” in a group show with the Dutch artist Henri Jacobs.