Birgit Megerle: Bond
Focusing on portraits, Birgit Megerle鈥檚 new exhibition brings into question sense of community and togetherness by staging paintings populated with multiple and heterogeneous figures: a mother and her child, an adolescent, brothers, protesters or a woman wearing a hat.
Precise, detailed, and delicately executed, the portraits are both artificial and distanced. The abstracted backdrops of the paintings appear to detach the figures from their environment, from any particular time. The predominant green and brown palette of the paintings, with sometimes grisaille tones referring again to the artist鈥檚 early works, interact with three extra walls specifically conceived for the exhibition, all painted in a different muted color. The temporary monochrome walls seem to both bind and obstruct relations among the staged characters. The works are rarely visible together at the same time.
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Focusing on portraits, Birgit Megerle鈥檚 new exhibition brings into question sense of community and togetherness by staging paintings populated with multiple and heterogeneous figures: a mother and her child, an adolescent, brothers, protesters or a woman wearing a hat.
Precise, detailed, and delicately executed, the portraits are both artificial and distanced. The abstracted backdrops of the paintings appear to detach the figures from their environment, from any particular time. The predominant green and brown palette of the paintings, with sometimes grisaille tones referring again to the artist鈥檚 early works, interact with three extra walls specifically conceived for the exhibition, all painted in a different muted color. The temporary monochrome walls seem to both bind and obstruct relations among the staged characters. The works are rarely visible together at the same time.
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