Maya Bloch Life goes on without me

15 March–16 April 2016
Maya Bloch
Maya Bloch
Maya Bloch
Maya Bloch
Maya Bloch
Maya Bloch
Untitled (one woman, men around her), 2016
Maya Bloch

Graphite on linen
65 x 67 cm, framed

Untitled (Tall group), 2015

Graphite on canvas
122 x 76 cm

Untitled (Nude with cigarette and foreign hand), 2015
Maya Bloch

Graphite on canvas
102 x 76 cm
 

Untitled (Frog waiter), 2015
Maya Bloch

Graphite, pencil and gesso on canvas
152 x 122 cm

Untitled (bug lady), 2015
Maya Bloch

Graphite, coloured pencils and gesso on canvas
102 x 76 cm

Untitled (Moon painting underneath), 2015

Graphite and gesso on canvas
155 x 135 cm

Untitled (Figure with hand), 2015
Maya Bloch

Graphite on canvas
67 x 65 cm, framed
 

Untitled ("Shiva"), 2015
Maya Bloch

Graphite and gesso on canvas
152 x 122 cm

Untitled (First group), 2015
Maya Bloch

Graphite on canvas
102 x 76 cm

Untitled (Picasso's girlfriend or white shirt), 2016
Maya Bloch

Graphite on canvas
102 x 76 cm

Maya Bloch

Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with the New York based painter Maya Bloch. Under the title ‘Life goes on without me’ Bloch is showing a new group of predominantly monochrome figure paintings in graphite washes and coloured pencil on canvas.

 

The pictures represent dream-like scenes that seem to play out on and at the peripheries of family gatherings long since passed. They feature mainly female characters, sometimes alone, sometimes in groups. Some of the figures are reproduced almost naturalistically; others are subject to expressionist distortion. They bring to mind motifs from James Enzor, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall and the early Lyonel Feininger, though both their form and their content are explicitly involved with the concerns of contemporary painting.

 

For what Bloch negotiates here in nostalgic garb and with innovative painterly means is a theme that has again become highly topical in the art of the present: that of the human form. But she does more than just explore the pictorial potential of various forms of representation. She also investigates the consequences of their physical juxtaposition and temporal coexistence, creating multi-layered genre pictures and portraits that move between perception, memory and fiction.

 

 

Maya Bloch (*1978 in Israel) has participated in the following solo and group exhibitions amongst others: Feels like Home, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York (2014); Rothfeld Collection, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C. (2013); Chicken or Beef?, The Hole, New York (2013); This is Not Happening, Sommer Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2012); Shesh-Besh, Petach-Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel (2011); Traces, the 4th Drawing Biennial, Artists' House, Jerusalem (2010); Anna Veronica, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2009); Maya Bloch, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008).

 

 

 

Die Galerie Guido W. Baudach freut sich, Ihre erste Einzelausstellung mit der in New York lebenden Malerin Maya Bloch zu präsentieren. Unter dem Titel „Life goes on without me“ zeigt Bloch eine Gruppe neuer, vorwiegend in schwarz/weiß gehaltener Figurenbilder, welche mit aquarellierten Graphit und Buntstiften auf Leinwand ausgeführt sind.

 

Dargestellt sind traumartig anmutende Szenerien, die auf und am Rande längst vergangener Familienfeiern zu spielen scheinen, und in denen vorwiegend weibliche Akteure auftreten, teils allein, teils zu Gruppen arrangiert. Einige der Figuren sind geradezu naturalistisch wiedergegeben, andere expressionistisch verzerrt. Man sieht sich an Motive von James Enzor, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall sowie des frühen Lyonel Feininger erinnert, hat es formal wie inhaltlich jedoch mit explizit zeitgenössischer Malerei zu tun.

 

Denn was hier in nostalgischem Gewand mit innovativen malerischen Mitteln verhandelt wird, ist das in der Kunst der Gegenwart wieder hochaktuelle Thema der menschlichen Gestalt. Bloch erforscht dabei nicht allein das bildnerische Potential unterschiedlicher Darstellungsformen. Sie untersucht zudem auch die Konsequenzen des Nebeneinanders, der Gleichzeitigkeit derselben und schafft so vielschichtige Sittengemälde und Porträts im Spannungsfeld von Anschauung, Erinnerung und Fiktion.

 

 

 

Maya Bloch (*1978 in Israel) hat unter anderem an folgenden Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen teilgenommen: Feels like Home, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York (2014); Rothfeld Collection, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C. (2013); Chicken or Beef?, The Hole, New York (2013); This is Not Happening, Sommer Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2012); Shesh-Besh, Petach-Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel (2011); Traces, the 4th Drawing Biennial, Artists' House, Jerusalem (2010); Anna Veronica, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2009); Maya Bloch, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008).