Exhibition catalogue with an essay by art historian and art critic Molly Warnock published on the occasion of the exhibition Max Estenger: New Paintings Part II.
Building upon his inventive and independent painting oeuvre of over 30 years, Estenger’s artworks continue the structural complexity of that work and its attendant material emphasis while now also giving color an equal significance. The payoff is in the rich intensity of his color as it gives these paintings a palpable energy and pulse.
The supports are canvas, clear vinyl, stainless steel and wood strainers and each painting reveals itself in different ways—the physicality of the presentation grounds the viewer in the phenomenological present while his color achieves a new kind of simultaneous disembodiedness. There is a new tension created between facticity and feeling which lay at the heart of these paintings.
