New Paintings: Stefan Sehler

New Paintings: Stefan Sehler

Showroom: The Third Eye by Mike Rogers

October 12 - December 2, 2007

Parker's Box is proud to present its third solo show of new paintings by the Berlin artist, Stefan Sehler

As a painter, Stefan Sehler has always had a tendency to set himself impossible challenges- like his choice of what ostensibly are particularly conservative subjects- flowers and landscapes for example, as a vehicle for contemporary research. Such choices are anything but arbitrary, however, and form part of a most disciplined practice through which Sehler aims with strong-headed deliberation at exploring the most rareified echelons of contemporary painting methodology. Not for him the currently fashionable return (for the umpteenth time) to jokey figuration in a pseudo-naïve style.

Stefan Sehler deals more specifically than perhaps any other painter today, with the mechanism of the spectator's relationship to the painted surface, and how this affects our perception of images. The most extraordinary (but logical) aspect of this is that he denies physical access to that very surface through his choice of technique- that of reverse painting on Plexiglas.

In the Showroom, Parker's Box artist, Mike Rogers presents the original drawings from his book, The Third Eye, published by Fundacio 30km/s, Barcelona (www.edicions30kms.net)

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