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WALTON FORDAquarelle
Bleibtreustraße 45, 10623 Berlin
18 June – 14 August 2021
Preview: Friday, 18 June, 12pm – 8pm
Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce "Aquarelle", a solo exhibition of recent works by Walton Ford at Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin. This is the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery.
Ford is known for his monumental and extremely detailed watercolours depicting wild animals. His works expand upon the visual language and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting. Influenced by historical sources such as the illustrations of John James Audubon (1785-1851), who gained popularity with his life-sized drawings of birds, the artist creates works of a unique luminosity in watercolour, gouache, and ink.
Drawing from a variety of sources, including scientific illustrations, historical events, underground comics, literature, films, and myths, he creates unique, surreal stories with a spark of black humour.
Many of the works on view at Galerie Max Hetzler powerfully reflect on bizarre and often violent encounters between humans and wildlife, and their consequences. Although animals such as monkeys, felines, wolves, bears, and birds are undoubtedly the main protagonists in the artist's works, and human figures rarely appear, their presence is always implied.
Walton Ford (*1960) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in international institutions, such as Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (2015); Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin; Albertina, Vienna; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (2010–2011); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; and Brooklyn Museum, New York (2006–2007). Ford’s work is in the collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain; Princeton Art Museum, Princeton; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/walton-ford-aquarelle-2021/press-en/
Image: Walton Ford, "Detested", 2020, 152.4 x 212 cm.; 60 x 83 1/2 in., photo: Tom Powel Imaging
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Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45, 10623 Berlin, Germany, Berlin