Dan Walsh, Decoys: 12 April – 17 May 2025
Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Decoys, an exhibition with new works by American artist Dan Walsh. The exhibition opens Saturday April 12 and lasts until May 17, 2025. Walsh, who recently had a solo exhibition at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, will show a new series of works on paper. These are mono prints made with water colour on paper. They are unique works. Walsh, very well-known with the technique of printmaking, developed this technique with printmakers. The result are clear images made with pure watercolour on paper. You can see the brushstrokes and how the images are built up. The art works, beautiful in colour and execution, are meant to seduce you. In addition, a selection of some recent artists’ books, produced by himself, will be on display.
Dan Walsh, born in 1960 in Philadelphia (US), is one of the most remarkable abstract artists in the United States today. He was one of the participating artists at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 2014. He makes minimal abstract paintings, which are playful in their use of process and historical references. In addition, he makes drawings, sculptures and books. After his study at Hunter College Walsh started showing his work at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York and several galleries in Europe. Since 2003 he exhibits regularly at Slewe Gallery. This exhibition will be his sixth single artist exhibition at the gallery.
Walsh’s prints and limited-edition books were subject of a solo show at the Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d’Art et d’histoire in Geneva (CH) in 2002. His work was also included in important group shows, such as the Ljubljiana Biennial in Slovenia and the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2003. His works have been collected by several internationally important private and public art collections, such as the MoMA in New York, Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht, FNAC in Paris and AKZO Nobel Art Foundation in Amsterdam. In 2012 the Rode Island School of Design Museum presented a solo show of his paintings and in 2013 the Speerstra Foundation in Lausanne (CH) showed Table of Contents, a series of eleven paintings, especially made for this occasion. In 2019 he had a single artist exhibition, entitled Pressing Matter at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, which focused on his paintings, drawings and books of the last ten years. He lives and works in Dover Plains, New York.
Günter Tuzina, Frühschnee: 1 March – 5 April 2025
Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Frühschnee by Günter Tuzina. The exhibition opens Saturday March 1 and will last until April 5. With the exhibition the gallery celebrates its 25 years of collaboration with the artist.
The exhibition contains some new paintings and a selection of never shown works on paper from 2012 until now. Among them are his old lithographs that form a basis for new work. A large painting from 2002 will also be shown. It bears the title of the exhibition Frühschnee, which refers to a similar titled painting by Caspar David Friedrich. With this Tuzina shows his interest in revising and reinterpreting Friedrich’s romantic, idealistic spirit.
Tuzina's very refined paintings and drawings show the legacy of the minimalist idiom of the 1960s and 1970s. His rectangular-shaped paintings, mainly in dark blue, red and green colors, resemble windows. They are cut by expressive horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines. These lines and angles are not perfectly straight. It gives the work emotional meaning, a romantic expression. Also, you can see very clearly how the paintings are constructed. As Tuzina himself says: ‘It is important to me that one sees the traces from how something is made.’
Günter Tuzina was born in 1951 in Hamburg (DE). He lives and works in Düsseldorf. His works have been internationally shown and collected by several important museum and public collections. His first museum show was in the Netherlands, at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 1978, followed by a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1983. In 1985 he was invited to an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague, where he made a mural in the staircase. Since then, the Kunstmuseum collected his works over the years and has organized several exhibitions, such as in 2002, which also included a catalog with an overview of his oeuvre. Since 2000 he shows regularly at Slewe Gallery. In 2020 a comprehensive catalog, entitled Welt, was published by Slewe Gallery in collaboration with Salon Verlag, including texts by Rudi Fuchs and Ulli Seegers.