Embodying Colour - Outtakes: Michael Post, Heiner Thiel, & Peter Weber

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Michael Post, Heiner Thiel, & Peter Weber

In a dark forest, a flash of white from a deer’s tail. In a golden field, the ultra-violet of a cluster of flowers. The black shadow of a large shape beneath green waves. The red flash of a wing spiraling against blue sky. It might not be too much to say that homo sapiens wouldn’t exist, at least not as we do now, without our ability to see colors. As quintessentially adaptable creatures, our brains developed around the talent for picking up complex patterns and colors, in our environment. It not only kept us alive but helped us thrive. It is a foundational part of who we are. One only needs to sit in a mono-color office building under fluorescent lighting to start to feel what it does to the body and mind to be denied our natural habitat of color.

But there is more to this foundational connection to color. Color is freighted with meaning. It provokes the nervous system, pricks us with emotion, it triggers memory, elicits profound response. Personal, cultural, biological. We are alarmed and delighted and soothed by our colorful world, moment by moment.

For artists Heiner Thiel and Michael Post – color is all. For decades, their work has sought to explore both the tangible and ethereal qualities of color, abstracted from narrative or naturalistic form. Art focused on the perception and experience of color itself. In 2013 in Weisbaden, Germany, the artists conceived of the idea of a curated exhibition on the theme of Embodying Colour which would travel to both major cities and with “outtakes,” including fewer of the original artists, appearing worldwide in galleries. Over the years the exhibition has appeared in Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, and France, with this iteration at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art marking its first U.S. appearance, and including work from fellow German artist, Peter Weber.

Viewers will be familiar with the intense and intriguing effect of Heiner Thiel’s arced wall sculptures.

The concave shapes are cut from aluminum and anodized through a painstaking industrial process which allows Thiel’s pieces to achieve a coating of color that is only 26 microns thick, thinner than a human hair. This intensely compacted color, combined with the concave shape of the work, creates a unique experience where the color will shift and change as the viewer moves around the piece. Sometimes it can even seem as if the color lifts off the piece itself, ghosting above the surface.

Michael Post’s exploration of color is twofold, with the surface color sometimes taking a backseat to the color he applies to the verso. These neon hues, canted with the shapes just off the wall, glow and reflect – casting colored “shadows” and painting on the wall. While previous works shown at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art have primarily had matte black or metallic surfaces, several of Post’s new pieces have added a new element, using lacquers polished to a high gloss to create a mirror-like surface. Here the viewer can find themselves reflected, embedded within the color of the piece itself.

What started out, for Peter Weber, as intricately folded paper invitations to his exhibitions, became the primary focus of his artistic work. Weber’s color-drenched three-dimensional wall-sculptures are intricately constructed from a single piece of felt cloth. Tucked and draped, folded and woven, these works create complex patterns that raise and disappear – with the light highlighting and shadowing the color, pulling the eye from one edge to another. The dense, compacted, blurred texture of the material adds an additional depth to the pieces, which allows the fabric color to shift with the light.

Embodying Colour provides viewers an opportunity to saturate themselves in a sensual experience of color.

Peter Weber, Crosslinking, II FBLC6, 2020, felt, 28.4 x 14.2 x 2 inches Peter Weber, Double Stripes FORh6, 2021, felt, 18.5 x 18.1 x 2.25 inches

Michael Post, Untitled (WVZ 1/23/755), 2023, acrylic, black car paint (mirroring) on aluminum, 26 x 22 x 3 inches

Michael Post, Untitled (WVZ 3/23/757), 2023, acrylic, car paint (mirroring) on steel, 25 x 16 x 2 inches Heiner Thiel, Untitled (WVZ 766), 2023, anodized aluminum, 29.5 x 29.5 x 6.3 inches Heiner Thiel, Untitled (WVZ 768), 2023, anodized aluminum, 30.7 x 23.6 x 5.1 inches Heiner Thiel, Untitled (WVZ 769), 2023, anodized aluminum, 33.8 x 26.8 x 6.7 inches

Michael Post, Untitled (WVZ 4/23/758), 2023, acrylic, black car paint (mirroring) on aluminum, 26.4 x 21.7 x 3 inches

Peter Weber, Crosslinking FG6, 2017, felt, 21.7 x 21.7 x 2.1 inches Heiner Thiel, Untitled (WVZ 08/22/762), 2022, anodized aluminum, 29.5 x 27.5 x 3.9 inches

Michael Post, Untitled (WVZ 8/23/762), 2023, light blue car paint (mirroring), acrylic on aluminum, 37.8 x 35.4 x 2.25 inches

Peter Weber, M5+2xM6 FBL6, 2021, felt, 22 x 20.4 x 1.8 inches Michael Post, Untitled (WVZ 7/23/761), 2023, blue car paint (mirroring), acrylic on steel, 34.7 x 17.7 x 2 inches Heiner Thiel, Untitled (WVZ 757), 2022, anodized aluminum, 25.2 x 16.5 x 3.7 inches

Peter Weber, 9 Large Squares III (9 große Quadrate III), Edition 2/9, 2023, staineleess steel, powercoat, 38 x 38.5 x 3.5 inches

Heiner Thiel, Untitled (WVZ 764), 2023, anodized aluminum, 26.4 x 26.4 x 5.2 inches

Peter Weber

Crosslinking, II FBLC6, 2020 felt

28.4 x 14.2 x 2 inches

PW039

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Peter Weber

Double Stripes F0Rh6, 2021 felt

18.5 x 18.1 x 2.25 inches

PW038

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$4,100

Michael Post

Untitled (WVZ 1/23/755), 2023

acrylic, black car paint (mirroring) on aluminum

26 x 22 x 3 inches

MP190

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$3,900

Heiner Thiel Untitled (WVZ 766), 2023 anodized aluminum

29.5 x 29.5 x 6.3 inches

HT269

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Heiner Thiel Untitled (WVZ 768), 2023 anodized aluminum

30.7 x 23.6 x 5.1 inches

HT271

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$5,200

Michael Post

Untitled (WVZ 3/23/757), 2023

acrylic, car paint (mirroring) on steel

25 x 16 x 2 inches

MP186

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Price on request

Price on request

Heiner Thiel Untitled (WVZ 769), 2023 anodized aluminum

33.8 x 26.8 x 6.7 inches

HT272

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$5,000

Michael Post

Untitled (WVZ 4/23/758), 2023

acrylic, black car paint (mirroring) on aluminum

26.4 x 21.7 x 3 inches

MP187

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$5,500

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Peter Weber

Crosslinking FG6, 2017 felt

21.7 x 21.7 x 2.1 inches

PW041

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Heiner Thiel

Untitled (WVZ 08/22/762), 2022

anodized aluminum

29.5 x 27.5 x 3.9 inches

HT273

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$4,500

Michael Post Untitled (WVZ 8/23/762), 2023 light blue car paint (mirroring), acrylic on aluminum

37.8 x 35.4 x 2.25 inches

MP189

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$5,500

Michael Post

Untitled (WVZ 7/23/761), 2023 blue car paint (mirroring), acrylic on steel

34.7 x 17.7 x 2 inches

MP188

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Heiner Thiel

Untitled (WVZ 757), 2022

anodized aluminum

25.2 x 16.5 x 3.7 inches

HT267

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Price on request

Peter Weber

M5+2xM6 FBL6, 2021 felt

22 x 20.4 x 1.8 inches

PW040

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Price on request

$4,300

Peter Weber

9 Large Squares III, 2023 Edition 2/9 staineleess steel, powercoat

38 x 38.5 x 3.5 inches

PW037

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$4,500

Heiner Thiel Untitled (WVZ 764), 2023 anodized aluminum

26.4 x 26.4 x 5.2 inches

HT268

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$5,500

$4,800

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