- Hat-Trick
- 2024|05.18 - 06.29
- Opening |05.18 4pm
- Lin & Lin Gallery
Tamar Arnon & Eli Zagury
Artists
Leonhard Hurzlmeier
Jordan Kasey
Veronika Pausova
Lin & Lin Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Hat-Trick by three international contemporary artists Leonhard Hurzlmeier, Jordan Kasey and Veronika Pausova in May, curated by British independent curator Tamar Arnon & Eli Zagury. This is the first exhibition of the three artists in Taiwan, presenting their using such as portraits, body parts, and still life elements to express their concern for contemporary life through bold, abstract, and dynamic compositions, further investigates the very essence of the relationship between figurative, representational and abstract painting.
Leonhard Hurzlmeier is a German pictorial humorist known for his abstract, minimalist and brightly colored paintings. Hurzlmeier breaks away from the traditional way of presenting portraits since the Renaissance, using a more abstract way to interpret concrete objects. In the composition, he carries out a rare mathematical compositional discipline, a further play on the pictorial language of modern posters, consciously avoids drawing the outline of objects and emphasizes the composition of vivid colors. In color contrast, the geometric line and arc are highlighted to form objects such as hat, earring, and pipe. Both abstract and minimalist color blocks form the various images of character, creating a unique and humorous aesthetic.
Contemporary American artist Jordan Kasey has also researched the human form and its structure extensively. By depicting giant stone-like characters in a quiet and mysterious atmosphere, Kasey projects a range of human situations and deep melancholic feelings. The artist comes to figuration through her own artistic and personal evolution, using smooth lines to sketch the exaggerated proportions of figures and larger body parts in architectural scenes, and dry brushstrokes build up the variable textures. Under the light and shadow, the depth and calm colors of red, green and blue overlap with the layered texture to create a lush dimensionality, specifying the theme of the painting. The surreal objects in the work that constructed with color and space, lead the viewer to immerse in the silence.
Czech artist Veronika Pausova's works bring together a rich tapestry of everyday elements, trying to capture different emotions and situations between shifts in the meanings of the characters and motifs. Flowers, body parts, butterflies, utensils, clothing items and individually rendered patterns and textures become the materials of her paintings. Each object is rendered with a precise attention to detail, contrasting with the artist’s experimental treatment of surfaces, processes that are sometimes referential but often enigmatic. In the painting, forms operate as signs, patterns, symbols or words, and their meaning changes with each new context and position.
Based on their personal narratives, the artists in this exhibition attempt to explore a variety of timeless and poetic visual languages with bold lines, fluid brushstrokes and unique color palettes, exploring and experimenting with shapes, forms and colors, as well as abstract and figurative representations, with the aim of not directly reflecting reality, but rather of creating artistic interpretations and forming new aesthetics and visual languages.
Leonhard Hurzlmeier was born in 1983 in Starnberg, Germany. He lives and works in Munich, Germany. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, from 2004 – 2011. Selected solo exhibitions include: Kissing Shores, Vigo Gallery (2023), London; Settenale, Martina Tauber Fine Art, Munich (2022); It’s the Analogy, Baby, Kunz Galerie, Munich (2021); Told Tales, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York City (2019); All New Women, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York City (2017); 13 Portraits, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich (2012). Recent group exhibitions include Cool Mist, Galerie Knust Kunz, Knokke (2022); Lost in Paradise, Martina Tauber Fine Art, Munich (2021); The Last Unicorn, Prediger Museum, Schwäbisch Gmünd (2020); Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Britta von Rettberg, Munich (2019); Revenue de Vacances, Martina Tauber Fine Arts, Munich (2019); 10 Years, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York City (2018); Locus Lapis, Martina Tauber Fine Arts; and Odeeh, Berlin (2018). In 2018, Hatje Cantz published Neue Frauen, a monograph of the artists’ work.
Jordan Kasey was born in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Selected exhibitions include: Nicelle Beauchene Gallery solo shows (2023, 2021, 2019, 2017); Kaufmann Repetto, Milan (2021); Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2020, 2018); Capsule, Shanghai (2019); Carl Kostyál, Malmö (2019); Signal Gallery, Brooklyn (2018, 2016); Kate MacGarry, London (2018); Past Skin, curated by Jocelyn Miller, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2017); White Cube, London (2017); and Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn (2016), Human Condition, curated by John Wolf, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, LA (2016); What’s Up, curated by Lawrence van Hagen, Revue Gallery, London (2016); Closer, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Sun Stroke, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, FL (2015) among others. Awards and Residencies: Cuevas Tilleard Artist Residency, Lamu Island, Kenya (2017); Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant nominee (2013); Sondheim Award Semi-Finalist (2015); Individual Artist Award in Painting, Maryland State Arts Council (2010) Jordan Kasey’s work can be found in the Collezione Maramotti, Italy, The Deighton Collection, London and the Zabludowicz Collection, London.
Veronika Pausova was born in 1987 in Prague, Czech Republic. She currently lives and works in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2023, 2022, 2019, 2017); Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada (2022); Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada (2021); The Sunday Painter, London, UK (2021); Parisian Laundry, Montréal (2018); Hunt Kastner, Prague (2018); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2018); Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium (2017); Paramo Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico (2016); Motel, Brooklyn, New York (2016); and SARDINE, Brooklyn, New York (2015). Selected group shows include Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada (2023); Hunt Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2022); Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China (2022); Perrotin, Paris, France (2022); Public Gallery, London, UK (2022); Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2020); Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2019); Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (2018); Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2018); Peana Projects, Monterrey, Mexico (2017); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (2017); Flat File at Deli Gallery, New York, NY (2017); University of Georgia, Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA (2017); Motel at Roberta Pelan, Toronto, Canada (2017); White Columns, New York, NY (2017). Pausova has been awarded numerous awards including the Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Grant (2018) and the RBC Painting Prize Finalist and Honorable Mention (2017). Veronika Pausova’s work is part of the following public and private collections: Banque Nationale, Canada; Claridge, Montréal, Canada; Equitable Bank, Toronto, Canada; Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada; Rachofsky House, Dallas, US; Royal Bank of Canada, Canada; Scotiabank, Canada; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, CN; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK. In 2023, the Esker Foundation published a catalog of Veronika Pausova’s work titled Fast Moving Sun.
Curatorial Statement|Hat-Trick