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New Paintings: Stefan Sehler


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New Paintings: Stefan Sehler

Stefan Sehler

Showroom: The Third Eye by Mike Rogers

October 12 - December 2, 2007

Parker's Box is proud to present its third solo show of new paintings by the Berlin artist, Stefan Sehler

As a painter, Stefan Sehler has always had a tendency to set himself impossible challenges- like his choice of what ostensibly are particularly conservative subjects- flowers and landscapes for example, as a vehicle for contemporary research. Such choices are anything but arbitrary, however, and form part of a most disciplined practice through which Sehler aims with strong-headed deliberation at exploring the most rareified echelons of contemporary painting methodology. Not for him the currently fashionable return (for the umpteenth time) to jokey figuration in a pseudo-naïve style.

Stefan Sehler deals more specifically than perhaps any other painter today, with the mechanism of the spectator's relationship to the painted surface, and how this affects our perception of images. The most extraordinary (but logical) aspect of this is that he denies physical access to that very surface through his choice of technique- that of reverse painting on Plexiglas.

In the Showroom, Parker's Box artist, Mike Rogers presents the original drawings from his book, The Third Eye, published by Fundacio 30km/s, Barcelona (www.edicions30kms.net)

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Exhibition View New Paintings: Stefan Sehler, Parker's Box, 2007, left to right: Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh I), 2007; Untitled (Marsh II), 2007; Untitled (Marsh III), 2007


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Exhibition View New Paintings: Stefan Sehler, Parker's Box, 2007, left to right: Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh II), 2007; Untitled (Marsh III), 2007


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Exhibition View New Paintings: Stefan Sehler, Parker's Box, 2007, left to right: Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh III), 2007; Untitled (Marsh IV), 2007


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Showroom installation view: Mike Rogers The Third Eye, 2007, installation: 162 pieces, pencil on paper, variable dimensions


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Showroom installation view: Mike Rogers The Third Eye, 2007, installation: 162 pieces, pencil on paper, variable dimensions


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Showroom installation view: Mike Rogers The Third Eye [detail], 2007, installation: 162 pieces, pencil on paper, variable dimensions


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh I), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh II), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh III), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh IV), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh V), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh VI), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh VII), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)


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Stefan Sehler Untitled (Marsh VIII), 2007, oil, enamel and acrylic paint behind Plexiglas, 86 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches (219 x 158.2 cm)




Artists:

Stefan Sehler
Mike Rogers


Parker's Box
193 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY 11211