Henning Bohl
Cornet of Horse
June 25 – September 11, 2011

Charley Harper
June 25 – September 11, 2011

Opening:
Friday, June 24, 2011

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The exhibition “Cornet of Horse” features several installation  
settings by Berlin-based artist Henning Bohl (born in 1975) that are  
linked both in terms of content and in terms of recurring motifs and  
materials and the way these are employed. Besides referring to each  
other, Bohl’s works also contain numerous, often subtle references to  
other art (movements). While his use of references follows a certain  
logic, it does not necessarily aim to produce meaning. Bohl is more  
interested in creating arrangements that tell stories and in how they  
are told. In addition to exploring various possibilities for  
generating picture motifs, Bohl also poses questions about the  
presentation and staging of art. Large-scale canvasses featuring  
collages of layered shapes cut from rolls of paper hang from  
plasterboard elements that are piled on sawhorses, creating their own  
architecture alongside the architecture of the exhibition space. This  
questioning on the part of the artist – which for him can never be  
finally resolved – causes the status of his work to be relativized in  
several different ways. Thus the pictures are relegated to the status  
of stage props, while the means of presentation take on an independent  
sculptural and conceptual significance of their own.

The American painter and graphic designer Charley Harper (1922-2007)  
is well known for his detailed and geometrically determined  
illustrations, prints and posters showing motifs from flora and fauna.  
His works combine nature-oriented realism, impacts from cubism and  
minimalism to an independent visual language. His motives are reduced  
to the very essential, to the main characteristic. Harpers screen  
prints are characterized by this simultaneous idea of simplicity and  
the variety of forms that create a distinctive universe. Sometimes his  
compositions appear as geometrical hidden object pictures revealing  
animals and plants not until the second glance. Showing his work for  
the first time in Germany the exhibition in the Kunstverein Hamburg  
assembles more than 60 screen prints of Charley Harper’s colourful  
wildlife.

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