Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition 'Darkness and Color' by German artist Günter Tuzina. The exhibition will give a small overview of his large oeuvre, with paintings from 1985 to 2022. The exhibition will open Saturday October 15 and will last until November 19.
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. It contrasts sharply with the anonymous, industrial perfection of Minimal Art.
Günter Tuzina was born in 1951 in Hamburg (DE). He lives and works in Düseldorf. 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. 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, Rotterdam and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Since 2000 he shows regularly at Slewe Gallery. In 2020 a comprehensive catalog, entitled Welt, was published by Slewe Gallery in collaboration with Salon Verlag, including texts by Rudi Fuchs and Ulli Seegers.