Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition 'Und mit Rot' by German artist Günter Tuzina. The exhibition will show new works by him. Twenty years ago he had his first exhibition at Slewe Gallery. To mark this occasion a new catalogue is published, entitled 'Welt', giving an overview of the last twenty years, with texts by Rudi Fuchs and Ulli Seegers. The exhibition opens Saturday October 17 and will last until November 21.
The very refined relatively small paintings by Günter Tuzina show the inheritance of the minimalist idiom of the sixties and seventies. His rectangle sized paintings, in mostly dark blue, red and green colors, look like windows. They are cut by expressive horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. These lines and angles are not quite perfect, which give them an emotional significance.
Günter Tuzina was born in 1951 in Hamburg (DE). He lives and works in Cologne. In 1978 he had his first museum show in the Netherlands at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In 2002 he had an overview of his oeuvre in the Kunstmuseum The Hague, on which occasion also a catalog was published. His works have been internationally shown and collected by several museum and public collections, such as the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Kunstmuseum The Hague, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.