Galerie Max Hetzler of Paris is currently showing an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by the Paris- and Berlin-based abstract artist Yves Oppenheim whose work evokes the color-field and hard-edge painting styles of the 1960s.Oppenheim continues his ongoing exploration of what he describes as “the action of color on mind and conscientiousness” in a number of mesmerizing large-scale computer generated canvases that epitomize the vibrant, rhythmic, and illusory nature of his signature style. “There is a logic of colored sensation. It starts from a point on the picture, a point to which one holds fast; thence one follows the pathway of the colour, which meets other colours, passing above or below them (or through shadow), and being gradually transformed. (…),” Oppenheim explains.“In every case, the light comes from the depths. There is a layering of colored surfaces that creates the structure, which is an immense space. It is like walking in a jungle: you have to part the branches and lianas to see the light behind them. By creating space, the eye circulates in color,” he adds.Also included in the exhibition is a more spontaneous, gestural, and organic series of multilayered ink on paper drawings that provide an interesting counterpoint to the logic and precision of the computer-generated canvases. “These are drawings of sensations, materials, and forms and thus allow the work to be connected to a reality, to an instant of thought. Drawings are related to the pleasure of unconstrained freedom. I see them as objects of reverie and indefinite spaces,” states Oppenheim.Yves Oppenheim is at Galerie Max Hetzler in Paris until July 25, 2015.
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