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Haggerty Opening Reception : Friday, 2 May, 2008, 7 pm KUTTNER SIEBERT Galerie presents its second individual
exhibition of work by New York artist Terry Haggerty. Haggerty’s
painting lives from the dense mixture of simultaneous affirmation
and distance. Its optical composition is extremely precise and
cool, evoking the impression of an almost mechanical perfection,
for each painterly gesture is cloaked behind several layers of
varnish. In addition, there is the simple planimetric structure
of lines running parallel over long stretches, then abruptly curving,
thus suggesting plasticity. If at first at issue is the beholder’s
unbelieving astonishment before this painterly precision, what
slowly develops is a visual impact that the viewer can no longer
resist. In his new works, a dynamic develops across the entire
image surface that causes a quite rapid change in the perception
of forms. The perceptual capacity of the beholder is called upon
to separate minute moments of various possibility of perception.
But this calculated transgression of impact is not static, so that
the selective-subjective accounting for the images is drawn into
doubt in the same moment and its renewed examination is forced.
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