Martin Gerwers: 3 September – 10 October 2020

Slewe Gallery starts the new season with an exhibition of new works by German artist Martin Gerwers (*1963). The exhibition opens Thursday September 3 and runs until October 10.

Gerwers, known for his monumental abstract geometric paintings, will show a new series of paintings with oblique lines and planes, and some triangular three-dimensional objects. These wooden structures of a stack of three triangular shapes are painted in his well-known subtle color range of different yellow, dark red and blue-gray.

Martin Gerwers lives and works in Düsseldorf. After his study at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, he exhibited at Konrad Fischer and at Galerie Tschudi in Glarus and Zuoz (CH). Since 1999 he exhibited at Slewe Gallery at a regular base. His work is part of several prominent private and public collections, including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In 2013 he had an exhibition in the project hall of the Kunstmuseum in The Hague and in 2015 he had a solo exhibition at the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren. In 2018 he was commissioned to make a large art work at the Daimler office in Berlin.

You can listen to an interview with the artist on his new works by Robert van Altena here.

Selected Works: 12 January – 16 February 2013

Slewe Gallery is pleased to start the new year with a group show from January 12 through February 16. Selected Works includes a selection of about 14 works by 7 artists of the gallery, including recent pieces by Merina Beekman, Frank Van den Broeck, Alan Charlton, Adam Colton, Martin Gerwers, Michael Jacklin and Alan Johnston.

During the exhibition there will be a concert held on Sunday 27 January at 3 pm. John snijders will perform Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage for prepared piano. Entrance free (rsvp: info@slewe.nl).

Slewe Gallery will participte at Art Rotterdam from 7 through 10 February (www.artrotterdam.nl).

Martin Gerwers, Shifting from a Riff: 13 October – 10 November 2012

Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Shifting from a Riff by German artist Martin Gerwers. It opens Saturday October 13 and will run until November 10, 2012.

Martin Gerwers, emerged with monumental geometric abstract paintings. He has recently extended his dicipline with 3-dimensional painted objects. Made out of triangular forms from wood they take the shape of dynamic pyramids, which define the surrounding space. His work is in the tradition of Mondrian and the American colourfield painting. Gerwers’ paintings and objects evoke space through big contrasts in light and dark, thin lines and broad planes of color and subtle differences in tone.

Martin Gerwers is born in 1963 in Velen (DE). He lives and works in Düsseldorf. After the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Jan Dibbets, he exhibited regularly at Konrad Fischer Galerie in Düsseldorf and Galerie Tschudi in Glarus in Switserland. Since 1999 he has been exhibiting at Slewe Gallery. His work has been collected by several private and public institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Next year he will make an exhibition in the project room of the Gemeentemuseum The Hague.

Why Patterns?: 8 January – 5 February 2011

Why Patterns? 

Participating artists: James Siena, Daan van Golden, Ian Davenport, Ann Pibal, Jerry Zeniuk, Carel Blotkamp, Michael Jacklin, Irma Boom, Joris Geurts, Jorinde Voigt, Stephen Ellis, Jan Dibbets, Martin Gerwers, Xylor Jane, Peter Struycken, Kate Shepherd, Domenico Bianchi, Merina Beekman, Callum Innes, Ditty Ketting, Peter Davis, Kees Goudzwaard, Dan Walsh, Herman de Vries, Steven Aalders

On Saturday 8 January 2011, Slewe Gallery will start out the new year with a group exhibition based on a concept of Steven Aalders:

I went to Zuiderwoude to attend a concert. Morton Feldman's Why Patterns? was being performed. Flute, piano and glockenspiel played individual notes, seemingly unrelated to each other. Only toward the end did the lines converge. Afterwards I cycled home across the dike, the sounds still echoing in my mind. Like a big whitish blue question mark, the IJsselmeer lay to the left, its silvery surface fractured into a fine relief of little waves. Above it moved the clouds in ever-changing formations. Straight lines of polder landscape on the right, dotted with red roofs, and the truncated tower of Ransdorp in the distance. Now and then September light skimmed across the pastures and gave the land a golden blush. "God was great that afternoon," said Nescio, "and benevolent."

Since the beginnings of abstract art, artists have made use of patterns in order to incorporate the problem of figure and background into the two-dimensional surface. They often took inspiration from non-Western visual cultures, as seen in the patterns of oriental carpets or Pre-Columbian objects. Patterns were also employed as independent elements in order to portray growth processes and cycles in nature, as parallels to nature's own manifestations.

The exhibition includes works by twenty five guest and regularly shown artists of the gallery. Patterns, both concrete and ephemeral, set the tone.

On Sunday afternoon 9 January, at 4 pm, the work Why Patterns? by the American composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) will be performed by the Ives Ensemble in the gallery. Admission is free. (rsvp: info@slewe.nl).

Martin Gerwers: 17 May – 14 June 2008

Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition with new works by German artist Martin Gerwers. It will open Saturday May 17 and runs until June 14, 2008.

Gerwers, emerged with monumental geometric abstract paintings. He has recently extended his dicipline with 3-dimensional painted objects. Made out of triangular forms from wood they take the shape of dynamic pyramids, which define the surrounding space. His work is in the tradition of Mondrian and the American colourfield painting. Gerwers’ paintings and objects evoke space through big contrasts in light and dark, thin lines and broad planes of color and subtle differences in tone.

Martin Gerwers is born in 1963 in Velen (DE). He lives and works in Düsseldorf. After the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Jan Dibbets, he exhibited regularly at Konrad Fischer Galerie in Düsseldorf and Galerie Tschudi in Glarus in Switserland. Since 1999 he has been exhibiting at Slewe Gallery. His work has been collected by several private and public institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Martin Gerwers, Seán Shanahan: 12 April – 10 May 2003

From 12 April until 10 May 2003 a duo exhibition with new paintings by German artist Martin Gerwers (*1963) and Irish artist Seán Shanahan (*1960) will take place at Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam.

Martin Gerwers: 9 October – 13 November 1999