FRIEZE LOS ANGELES

Galerie Max Hetzler is delighted to present works by Louise Bonnet, André Butzer, William N. Copley, Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Walton Ford, Katharina Grosse, Liz Larner, Jake Longstreth, Beatriz Milhazes, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Rinus Van de Velde, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren, Grace Weaver and Emma Webster.

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‘Bonnet’s luxurious paintings are filled with bodies that tread a fine line between Rubenesque beauty and swollen ugliness. […] Faceless heads, rotund buttocks and erect nipples are etched out in vibrant, luminescent palettes. These “manic exaggerations” are as much about the human psyche as they are about the physical form, and play with a sense of depth and proportion that forces the viewer to recalibrate their eye.’

Holly Black, 2022

‘Perhaps I’m trying to make the paintings look like my impulse to paint them. There’s a hounding drive in me to restructure unending input and turn it into visuals.’

Ida Ekblad, 2022

‘Central to Katharina Grosse’s creative endeavor is color and its immediate physical presence […]. Grosse rethinks fundamental concerns that have defied the history of painting: links between painting and subjectivity, the belief in painting as an autonomous practice, the hierarchical structures within painting, and the expansion of painting into the experiential spaces of the everyday.’

Sabine Eckmann, 2022

‘Part of it is trying to come up with different ways of getting people to engage with sculpture – and sculpture is the best way for this to happen – with all their senses and movement.’

Liz Larner 2022

‘The Ω motif is a compositional disruptor, and for this reason it sometimes calls for containment or amputation. Like a mask, the sharp, clean edges of the cut-out symbol hide and interrupt the drippy, smeared, oily gestures beneath it. […Oehlen’s] compositions involve an unsettling dialectic of under/over, figure/ ground, hole/mask, cut/glue that keeps the whole series moving and undermines any one painting’s identity.’

John Kelsey, 2023

‘It comes from a strange nowhere, then gradually something comes out into the light. There are impulses, half-seen shapes, things that might have stuck with you from decades ago, as well as more recently. It's all stuff in the world going through you as a filter...’

Rebecca Warren, 2017

‘I think that my work in general can almost function as a kind-of updated genre painting. […] These very normal activities reflect our bodies and our desires and our habits whether we’re proud of them or ashamed of them, so using these props was kind of a way for me to just have an external emblem of what’s going on internally.’

Grace Weaver, 2022