We warmly invite you to the opening of Hard Edge in Berlin.
Join us for our newest group show and meet one of the artists in person!
Opening: 10.12.22 from 7 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 11.12.22 – 28.02.23
Address: Gipsstraße 11, 10119 Berlin
The term ‘hard-edge painting’ was coined by Californian critic Jules Langsner in 1959. He used it to describe the work of those abstract painters, particularly on the West Coast of America, who reacted to the more painterly or gestural forms of abstract
expressionism by adopting a consciously impersonal approach to paint application. Their paintings were made up of monochromatic fields of clean-edged colour which reinforced the flatness of the picture surface.
This style of hard-edged geometric abstraction refers back to the work of Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers. It can be seen as a subdivision of post-painterly abstraction, which in turn emerged from colour field painting. Artists associated historically with hard edge painting include Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, William T. Williams Sam Gilliam. Nowadays you can identify a global scene of hard edge painters adopting the philosophy, techniques and aesthetics of that movement. You will find
contemporary artists pushing the boundaries on that topic and creating new interpretations.
The exhibition HARD EDGE at Circle Culture Galleries Berlin brings together diverse young and more established positions to reflect the contemporary development of that art historical phenomena.
