Christian Hellmich

The Array/Transfer-Domino

January 14 - February 20, 2010
540 West 26th Street

Press Release

Christian Hellmich
The Array – Transfer/Domino
14 January – 20 February 2010
540 West 26th Street
Opening Reception: Thursday, 14 January, 6 – 8PM

Returning for his second solo exhibition in New York, German artist, Christian Hellmich, will present a group of new works at Lehmann Maupin Gallery entitled The Array/Transfer-Domino 14 January- 20 February, 2010. Since his 2006 show, Arrangement, a group of paintings depicting interiors, exteriors and arrangements of architectural perceptions all emphasizing form, texture, and geometry, Hellmich has endeavored to further explore the roles of painting and architecture within the context of his unique process. As Hellmich's previous works depict definitions between an interior and an exterior, viewers will find in this second exhibition a broadening of these definitions. The role of architecture remains one focal point of Hellmich's subject matter, though a myriad of topics and imagery flow throughout the works.

Hellmich's new works reveal a certain grade of concreteness and representation through his process, in which he strives towards a decisive moment and a formulation of definitions in the exactness of the vague, appropriating his artistic strategies. The two-part title of Hellmich's upcoming exhibition, The Array/Transfer-Domino, is drawn from influences he finds in many different pictorial sources, whether it be news, advertisements, entertainment, literature, or any other form of culture.

In informatics an Array is seen as an arrangement of similar elements through a determined method. The term "Transfer-Domino" can be seen as a constant search for the next tile, but for example, also refers to the personnel carousel found in professional sports. The exhibition title demonstrates the way Hellmich works and where his interests lie: in communicating through definitions and terms, and the exchange process of these terms, all of which, pertinent in this body of work.

Christian Hellmich was born in 1977 in Düsseldorf, Germany and studied at the Folkwangschule of Essen with an emphasis on free diagramming/painting. For Hellmich, painting is an exercise in taxonomy rather than storytelling. Hellmich's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as at Kunstverein Mannheim and Von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, he was featured in Lehmann Maupin's 2005 Summer Show, "Fresh Paint", and held a solo show at Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich in 2009. In 2010 a solo exhibition of Hellmich's work will be on view at Kunsthalle Barmen. He lives and works in Cologne..

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Exhibition Works

CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Station, 2008 oil on canvas 110.24 x 160.63 inches 280 x 408 cm LM3308


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Transfer-Domino, 2009 oil on canvas 80.71 x 59.45 inches 205 x 151 cm LM12592


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Sensortype, 2009 oil on canvas 51.57 x 25.59 inches 131 x 65 cm signed, titled and dated on the reverse LM12594


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Mushroom Rock, 2009 oil on canvas 110.63 x 72.44 inches 281 x 184 cm signed, titled and dated on the reverse LM12598


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Enterprise, 2009 oil on canvas 92.13 x 118.5 inches 234 x 301 cm LM12599


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Modell I, 2009 oil on canvas 80.31 x 61.02 inches 204 x 155 cm signed, titled and dated on the reverse LM12593


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Flipmode, 2009 oil on canvas 36.42 x 25.39 inches 92.5 x 64.5 cm signed, titled and dated on the reverse LM12595


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Leda , 2009 oil on canvas 36.42 x 25.39 inches 92.5 x 64.5 cm signed, titled and dated on the reverse LM12596


CHRISTIAN HELLMICH Modell II, 2009 oil on canvas 31.89 x 25.59 inches 81 x 65 cm signed, titled and dated on the reverse LM12597