Nguyen Xuan Huy presents his epochal composition "Une journée Horizontal" in the Kunsthalle Darmstadt. It is a work presentation - only this one painting will be on display. What it is all about - in terms of content and technology. Nguyen Xuan Huy Une journée horizontal Work presentation 04.09.2021 - 30.01.2022 The composition is clearly based on Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (1819) in the Louvre in Paris. Nguyen's stage space is, however, a bit wider in proportion. Instead of one collapsed pyramid, you can see two of them. They arrange the compact tableau of 28 figures, young women and men, which to describe in detail here would lead too far. Just this much: each one seems to represent a world of its own. Each appears to have been forced into a pose, half remotely controlled, half narcissus-like, mostly self-absorbed. They all look European, but the latter may be due to the models with which the artist is used to working. At the same time, the pyramidal shape also plays with the views of the tombs of Giza, which are deeply anchored in cultural memory. A sphinx surrounded by ivy in front of the right edge of the picture literally triggers this association. But neither water nor sand, but a red and white something prevails. Embers? Does the sky just look like fire or does real fire rise in it? Vegetation, rocks, an artistic footbridge, a wooden house still under construction that could also be read as a boat or an improvised changing room, all of this leaves no indication of the scene of the event. Unlike Géricault, it's not about life or death. The seesaw on the swing is reminiscent of the pendulum on a clock. As a well-known symbol of vanitas, the fly by the Sphinx underscores the allegory of time, which one is certainly dealing with here. Compared to the figures and other animals, a lioness and two roseate spoonbills, it is oversized. A new species created through interference with nature? Or does the fly require the large format, as if the painter had seen it sitting on a reduced draft of his picture and enlarged it with this as a background? The confusing standards, the placelessness, the unclear reference to time contrasts with a feeling of harmlessness that this particular travel company conveys. Finally, different images flow together in a vision that straightens heaven and hell. León clutter

Allegro, 2021, Pastell, Kohle, Tusche und Aqarell auf grundiertem MDF, 160 x 120 cm, 8400 Euro


Blossom, 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, D 100 cm, 6000 Euro


Cave, 2021, Pastell, Kohle, Aquarell und Regen, 180 x 120 cm, 9000 Euro


Distel, 2021, Pastell, Aquarell und Kohle auf grundiertem MDF, 100 x 70 cm, 5100 Euro


Fleurope (upside down), 2021, Pastell, und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 110 x 80 cm, 5700 Euro

Hecke, 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 120 x 150 cm, 8700 Euro


Iris, 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 80 x 60 cm, 4200 Euro


Knospe, Pastell, Kohle und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 80 x 60 cm, 4200 Euro


Lemon Stage, 2021, Pastell auf grundiertem MDF, 80 x 115 cm, 5900 Euro

Lumen (Balz), 2021, Pastell, Aquarell und Kohle auf grundiertem MDF, 70 x 100 cm, 5100 Euro

Petasitis Hybridus 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 52 x 66 cm, 3600 Euro


Priessnitzgrund, 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 80 x 60 cm, 4200 Euro


Rear Window, 2021, Pastell auf grundiertem MDF, 55 x 42 cm, 2900 Euro


Tulip, 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 80 x 60 cm, 4200 Euro

Waldstaub, 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 60 x 73 cm, 3900 Euro

Winden, 2021, Pastell und Aquarell auf grundiertem MDF, 40 x 32 cm, 1800 Euro

Plate

Fundstücke, Teller, 2021, Engobemalerei, ∅ 39,5 cm, 4000 Euro

Kapuzinerkresse und Rotes Ordensband, Teller, 2021, Engobemalerei, ∅ 33,5 cm, 2700 Euro

Korallen, Teller, 2020, Engobemalerei, ∅ 29 cm, 2100 Euro

Quodlibet mit Hammer und Nägeln, Teller, Engobemalerei, 2021, ∅ 41 cm, 4000 Euro

Quodlibet mit Kamm, Teller, 2021, Engobemalerei, ∅ 39 cm, 3800 Euro

Schönbär,  2021, Teller, Engobemalerei, ∅ 36,5 cm, 3600 Euro

Winterlinge, 2021, Teller, Engobemalerei, ∅ 36 cm, 2800 Euro

Lidded vases

Getier am Wegesrand, Deckelvase, 2021, Engobemalerei, 51 cm hoch, 6000 Euro

Sommerwiese mit Insekten, Engobemalerei, 2019, 50 cm hoch, 6000 Euro

Steine, 2021, Deckelvase, Engobemalerei, 50 cm hoch, 6000 Euro

Steinige Gegend, 2021, Deckelvase, Engobemalerei, 50 cm hoch, 6000 Euro

Wiesenstück mit Eidechse, 2021, Deckelvase, Engobemalerei, 52 cm hoch, 6000 Euro

Sonnengruß, 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 140 x 120 cm, 6.200 Euro

Wearing Sleeves, 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 90 x 70 cm, 3.800 Euro

Behind the Arm, 2021, Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 40 cm, 2.100 Euro

Secret Messages in the Paper Towel, 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 30 x 40 cm, 1.700 Euro

Small Plant (outside), 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 30 x 30 cm, 1.400 Euro

Small Plant (desert), 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 30 x 30 cm, 1.400 Euro

Horses Falling on Horses, 2021, Öl und Acryl auf zwei Leinwänden, 240 x 300 cm, 12.900 Euro

Disintegration, 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 180 x 150 cm, 7.900 Euro

The Open Window, 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 150 x 130 cm, 6700 Euro


Starr, 2021, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 45 x 35 cm, 1950 Euro


Pause, 2021, Öl  auf Leinwand, 90 x 80 cm, 4100 Euro

Stolzes Mitglied, 2020, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 40 x 30 cm, 1.700 Euro

Annette Schröter is a professor of painting at the HGB Leipzig - and one of the most influential personalities on the German art scene. your graduates act successfully on international stages and enrich the image of the "New Leipzig School" with surprising facets. As a remarkable, critical and tolerant teacher, Annette Schröter knows how to let her students speak their own language, specifically promote strengths and accept controversies. She is committed to paving the way for her pupils in the art scene. A tried and tested means are the master class exhibitions in German galleries, through which they made remarkable debuts possible.

Annette Schröter herself, a long-time successful painter, swapped her medium for the sophisticated technique of paper cutting more than a decade ago. What attracted her to this was the challenge of achieving the complicated effects of elaborate painting with reduced resources. The first thing that catches the eye is the format, which has grown to be monumental. Annette Schröter works with patterns and contours, spaces, textures and blurring. But it also shows the real strengths of the paper cut, the linear, the ornament.

One of her newest and most current works is the “Grosse Butzemann” from 2020, with the stately dimensions of 220 x 150 cm for a paper cut. With great enthusiasm for the provocative, it addresses the social customs of our time: the building up of enemy images, the fascination for the cryptic and the subversive (the shredder strips are already built in), the game with wickedness, masquerades and denunciation. Look for yourself.