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Donald Baechler
1956 Born in Hartford; CT (US) "l tend to be interested, for my own purposes, in things I find on the street or things drawn on toillet walls or things drawn by someone I meet in a bar..." lives and work in New York, (NY) USA Each one of Donald Baechler´s works is a declaration in favour of the hybrid. Generally, he juxtaposes acrylic paints mixed with oil and papier collés on the same canvas to make assemblages. This technique becomes a distinguishing feature of an "aesthetic of mixing", which is intended to permeate or overcome the gulf between different styles and genres. The spirit of appropriation lies at the basis or Baechler´s art. In paintings characteristic of 1980s and 90s Postmodernism, he combines Expressionism and Bad Painting, references and quotations, art brut and naive painting, high and low, realism, gestural painting and flat masses of colour. Quotations, borrowings and historical references form the basis of a body of work that singles out these diverse elements in order to underline their eclecticism. (...) His series of flowers, fruits, trees, balls or simple geometric forms are painted with affected clumsiness and a bogus naivety. In this way, his work develops a "aesthetic of simplicity" and pays ironic tribute to a kind of primitivism, which is meant to cast doubt on, and overturn, what Baechler considers to be academic conventions and the affectations of Minimalist and Conceptual Art. 2005 Large Drawings Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich Donald Baechler Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich Donald Baechler - Sculpture Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Sonderaktion Graphiken und Bücher Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich White Christmas white8 Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer, Villach VISIONS of AMERICA - Ikonen zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Kunst aus der Samml Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg I Am The Walrus Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY Arbeiten auf Papier Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY 2003 Donald Baechler Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich Graphische Suiten der Edition Bernd Klüser Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich Donald Baechler Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 2002 20 Jahre Galerie Steinek: ein Porträt Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna Accrochage II: Paintings Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY Keine Kleinigkeit Kunsthalle Basel, Basel New York Expression Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen 2001 Donald Baechler Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna DONALD BAECHLER - Gemälde und Papierarbeiten Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin Mythic Proportions - Painting in the 1980’s Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL 1999 Globes and More Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Menschenbild I Galerie Albrecht, Munich Donald Baechler Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich 1998 Donald Baechler Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Representing galleries 17 Austria Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Belgium Alain Noirhomme, Brussels Maruani & Noirhomme, Knokke-Zoute France Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Germany Galerie Ascan Crone, Andreas Osarek, Berlin Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich Italy 1000 Eventi, Milano Galleria Cardi, Milano Studio d´arte Raffaelli, Trento Portugal Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto Spain Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Sweden Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm Switzerland Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva USA Jonathan Novak Contemporay Art, Los Angeles, CA Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Public collections 4 Canada Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Italy Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna USA MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA MOCA GRAND AVENUE, Los Angeles, CA
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