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2004 
various textiles, metal frame, light bulb
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2012 
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2007 
acrylic on table cloth
78 x 157.5 inches  
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2002 
acrylic on table cloth
78 x 78 inches 
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February 23rd – March 24th 2012
47 Wooster Street

Team Gallery is pleased to present an installation of new work by Köln-based artist Andreas Schulze. The exhibition will run from February 23rd through March 24th, 2012. Team Gallery is located at 47 Wooster Street, cross streets Grand and Broome. Concurrently, our 83 Grand Street space will debut new work by New York-based painter Davis Rhodes. 

Andreas Schulze’s practice allows for complex architectural settings that delight in domestic furniture and manicured gardens that have excessively round, full, and deep anatomies. For the artist’s first exhibition at Team Gallery, Schulze presents new paintings alongside painted and found objects like lamps, tables, chairs, carpets, and curtains, accompanied by a hand-painted gallery floor. The immersive and site-specific installation re-configures the variable spatial relationships of viewer and object, viewer and window, viewer and painting. 

The installation includes various domestic furniture pieces in the working method of Allan Kaprow or Gilbert and George, for instance – situated in a congruent zone of life and art. Human-scaled harlequin lamps have thick, patterned trunks topped with bulbous, oversized shades. A carpet placed at the entryway functions as a domestic doormat. Painted cotton panels function as unusable tablecloths, elaborately covering a table’s surface in a parallel gesture to the horizontal painting that covers the floor. 

The subjects of Schulze’s work are impenetrable windows, doors, and mirrors, nebulous interiors and landscapes. He obsessively undulates between hard and soft, inside and outside, playful and melancholic, comfortable and menacing. His flat painting style paired with the extreme depth of his illusions belies Schulze’s complicated relationship to the history of painting. He employs the perspectival foreshortening and sfumato tonal shading techniques of realism that date back to the Renaissance, in addition to using the barren landscape backgrounds of Surrealism, the absurd object mash-ups of dada, the accessible furniture design art of Wiener Werkstätte and the Bauhaus, and the dramatically rendered subjects of neo-expressionist painting of the 1980s, among which his work was first shown and associated. His painted room and object installations stand in close relationship to the elaborate narrative scenes set by Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, and Kurt Schwitters. 

Schulze’s intricate and evocative dramatic sites are reminiscent of Wagnerian opera or ancient Greek theater. Schulze returns to New York with a poetic, yet tense, amalgam of installation, painting, and sculpture, in which every object is sabotaged furniture, a decorated and mythic object for living, suffused with extreme magnitude while rinsed of all function. 

Schulze was born in Hannover in 1955 and has been exhibiting his work since 1981. Last year the artist had a major survey exhibition with an extensive catalogue published by the Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg and the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren. Schulze’s work has been exhibited at museums internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Museum in London, and the Kunstforeningen in Copenhagen, among many others. 

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm. For further information and/or photographs please call 212 279 9219.

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2012
acrylic on untreated cotton
two parts, 79 x 157.5 inches overall
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2011 
acrylic on nettle cloth
39.5 x 39.5 inches 
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2010 
acrylic on nettle cloth 
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1996 
acrylic on untreated cotton
two parts, overall: 78.5 x 189 inches