We were looking forward to the exhibition of Brett Seiler's at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Leipzig, Germany, and they have shared a video tour of the installation that we wanted to share today.
An excerpt from the press release:
In the spatial installation, the new paintings, hinged pictures, packed suitcases, as well as painted apples, Cock-Cola bottles and cigarettes made of wood come together in a narrative. They seem like fascinating pages from the artist's fictional diary, which records poetic and intimate moments. The spatial arrangement of wooden stands, open suitcases and fragile hinged panels shows people meeting, embracing and lying next to each other to listen to each other's breathing and produced sounds. When the hinge is opened, the people split up again. Seiler's present messages, such as "I have so many pictures, so little memories" or "Please tell Mom I found him", seem like delicate echoes — intangible, emotional moments in the room. On the paint-smeared wooden floors of his larger paintings, half-naked figures move like travelers between paint buckets, canvases, brushes, suitcases and furniture. Photographs of male bodies and heads are attached to the shimmering white walls. The earth-tone coloured areas contrast with the fleeting lines that the dim light draws around the figures, giving them a stage-like effect. In the exhibition, Seiler expands the complexity of his new works with delicate interiors, like moving elements of a brightly lit stage set. Some of his works consist of collages made of photocopies, poetic texts and cutouts on cardboard backs intended only for the eyes of those in the know. These back sides provide insights into his artistic practice. Seiler often begins with portrait photographs of people he meets in his studio. He reproduces these as photocopies, which he then distributes in countless stacks around the studio. This way they mix with other images and serve as a starting point for his collage-like paintings in which the boundaries of the media blur.
