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In 2012 Carline von Heyl was named a recipient of the Wex Artist Residency, in association with the Wexner Center of Columbus, Ohio.
The first U.S. museum survey of her work was at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Her work has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad, including solo museum exhibitions at the Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; the Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany; the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, the Institue of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Le Consortium, Dijon, France; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; and Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria.
Charline von Heyl's painting displays an amalgam of the most diverse effects, which generate vibrating energies and tensions: dynamic forms enfold graphic structures, dazzling colours encounter muted shades, abstract gestures collide with the fleeting memory of something real.
She creates pictures that "have the iconic value of signs yet always remain ambivalent and mysterious in their meaning. (…)."
"Now or Else" offers an in-depth insight into von Heyl's fascinating oeuvre and shows a focused selection of paintings dating from the mid-1990s as well as some current works on paper. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Tate Liverpool and Kunsthalle Nürnberg.
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-86678-733-9
This fully illustrated catalogue accompanied the exhibition Charline von Heyl at the ICA Philadelphia in 2011. It includes an essay by curator Jenelle Porter, Senior Curator, ICA/Boston, and an interview with the artist by Kaja Silverman, the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Chair of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. This catalogue also includes 18 fold-out color plates of works in the exhibition.
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-88454-122-6
First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting. For this book, Charline von Heyl has assembled paintings made on the old and the new continent: in Germany at the beginning of the 1990s and in New York since 1996.
The book of lined up paintings, spread just about chronologically, is the first to really hold forth since it observes the paintings from a dual point of view: the rather objective colour reproduction with margins vis-à-vis the more determining and selective extract (far more than a detail) which is magnified, in black and white, and manipulated by the artist revealing the graphic structure of the paintings.
What happens when colours fall off the next page and a large starkly black and white surface only reveals a perfectly cropped extract? Suddendly the paintings are stripped to the bones, in uncomfortable close-ups, they unveil their structure. This becomes inevitably graphic but as it is followed through systematically throughout the entire body of work, it creates a syntax which highlights the process (without removing the pleasure) of the face to face confrontation with the actual painting.
Edited by Charline von Heyl and Franck Gautherot.
Texts by Franck Gautherot, Mark von Schlegell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Allison Katz.
Les presses du réel, 2010
English edition
20 x 26 cm (hardcover)
272 (139 color & 84 b/w ill.)
ISBN: 978-2-84066-417-8
EAN: 9782840664178
Charline von Heyl
Interventionist Demonstration (WHY-A-DUCK?)
New catalogue accompanying Charline von Heyl's solo exhibition Interventionist Demonstration (WHY-A-DUCK?) at Corbett vs. Dempsey on view through June 7, 2014.
First Printing, edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9896512-7-1