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October 31, 2007

Karin Sander at D'Amelio Terras

We're late on this one, but hope you New Yorkers can still catch The Mailed Paintings, a solo show by conceptual, German artist Karin Sander at D'Amelio Terras Gallery which is up through Saturday, November 3rd.

In the press release, the gallery writes,

"The Mailed Paintings along with Gebrauchsbilder (pictures for use) are projects that are part of a larger body of work titled The Patina Paintings. In Gebrauchsbilder the paintings start out as blank canvases and autonomously create themselves by absorbing the patina of the environment where they are installed for a period of time, such as a coal cellar or deck of a ship. In a similar way, the Mailed Paintings collect patina from handling and the exposure to the elements along their postal route and are considered done when they arrive at the gallery.

The monochromatic white surfaces act as self-writing diaries that record the journey of the work. This process embraces chance and risk and points to the larger conceptual practice of Karin Sander, who always operates in the extended field of painting by putting an emphasis on the environment of the exhibition and the circumstances surrounding it, like in her well-known polished wall pieces. The collected patina exaggerates and mirrors the effect of the passage of time on the surface of the painting, and her installation in the gallery is reminiscent of both Suprematism and the ready-made."

We hope you'll take a look. (525 W. 22nd Street. 212-352-9460)