GRIMM is happy to current Chambers, an exhibition of latest work by Angela Heisch, on view on the Amsterdam gallery from March 15, till Might 10, 2025. That is the artist’s third solo exhibition on the gallery and her second in Amsterdam.
Persevering with her exploration of pure varieties and elemental forces that form our world, Heisch’s latest abstractions faucet right into a realm the place the boundaries between the inner and exterior blur.
In her new physique of labor, the artist explores the inner structure of dwelling beings. The exhibition’s title, Chambers, alludes to the inside area, each as an architectural quantity in addition to the inner and bodily expertise. This duality of which means is translated within the portray The Valves, which is harking back to the inside of a beating coronary heart; an inner area that’s natural and mechanical on the similar time. Heisch is within the clunkiness and arbitrariness of natural varieties and pure programs which can be omnipresent but fragile.
The compositions of those new work are zoomed-in, providing a nearer have a look at the intricate particulars of varieties and buildings. In some works, such because the small canvas Small Nightfall, it nearly feels as if we’re contained in the painted area, the place gentle penetrates the closed-off sections of an inside. One other canvas, The Perch, depicts a big cylinder with a sphere resting on prime, which just about seems like a big determine standing earlier than you. The size of the works enhances the bodily expertise of viewing.
Central to Heisch’s follow is her fascination with gentle. Till now, the artist has been paying equally as a lot consideration to the areas touched by gentle as to these obscured by darkness. For these new works, she emphasizes the unknown areas and the voids. By highlighting the contours and corners, she delves into the mysterious areas that are usually opaque. Her use of colour, which is dense, muted and fewer outlined, creates a cavernous sense of area, the place just some areas are illuminated whereas the higher components stay in darkness.
This new collection builds upon Heisch’s curiosity in abstraction as a framework for exploring and understanding the world. The inside voids and areas are summary, but there’s at all times a focus that brings the gaze again to the viewer. For Heisch, abstraction shouldn’t be merely about depiction; it’s an lively invitation for interpretation and dialogue between the viewer and the work. It removes us from the acquainted, stripping away the consolation of recognizable environment.
