Mitchell-Innes & Nash

We Make Any Size of Mirror · September 21 - November 22, 2006

1018 Madison Avenue
September 21 - November 22, 2006

Press Release

September 21 – November 22, 2006

July 17, 2006 – Mitchell-Innes & Nash will present the first New York exhibition of German artist Norbert Schwontkowski from September 21 through November 22 in their Uptown space. The exhibition will include a number of new paintings by Schwontkowski, paired with a selection of paintings and drawings by modern and contemporary masters including Forrest Bess, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Alex Katz, Pablo Picasso, and Willem de Kooning. Schwontkowski has selected artists whom he considers especially influential to his work, and the exhibition will demonstrate his affinities with a range of 20th-century traditions.

Schwontkowski’s loosely rendered paintings combine dark humor and naïve whimsy. Although simple in their composition, the paintings are painstaking in their fabrication and paint-handling. Schwontkowski mixes his own paints and glazes using linseed oil, ground pigments, metal oxides, and bone glue to create his signature muted tones and lush surfaces. The result is pictures with elusive narratives, in which isolated figures and sparse landscapes are given equal weight as the abstract, painterly background.

Norbert Schwontkowski was born 1949 and grew up in Bremen, Germany. He is a professor of painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künst at Hamburg. He has regularly exhibited in galleries and public institutions throughout Europe since the late 1970s. His recent retrospective “Kino” traveled to Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus, Kunsthalle Erfurt, and Kunsthalle Bremen (2004-2005). He was also the subject of a special exhibition at the Rubell Collection in Miami in December 2005. He is represented in Germany by Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin and Produzentengalerie, Hamburg.

Listing Information: Mitchell-Innes & Nash Uptown is located at 1018 Madison Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets.

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 10am to 6pm T: (212) 744-7400 www.miandn.com

An opening reception will be held at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Uptown on September 21, 2006, 6-8pm.

Press Information: Stacy Bolton Communications
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On view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Chelsea: Jessica Stockholder,
September 8 through October 14.

Exhibition Artists

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Exhibition Images

NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Spiegel", 2006
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 by 15 3/4 in. 60 by 40 cm.


NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Boote", 2006
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 by 35 7/16 in. 60 by 90 cm.


NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Fischerdorf", 2006
Oil on canvas
63 by 51 3/16 in. 160 by 130 cm.


NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Der Grüne Teppich", 2006
Oil on canvas
35 7/16 by 23 5/8 in. 90 by 60 cm.


NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Am Strand", 2006
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 by 35 7/16 in. 60 by 90 cm.



NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Die Erscheinung (Fontaine)", 2006
Oil on canvas
70 7/8 by 59 1/16 in. 180 by 150 cm.


NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Süd-China", 2006
Oil on canvas
15 3/4 by 19 11/16 in. 40 by 50 cm.


NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Spiegel (Reflektion)", 2006
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 by 19 11/16 in. 50 by 50 cm.


Installation Shot, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Uptown


Installation Shot, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Uptown


Installation Shot, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Uptown


ALLAN D'ARCANGELO
"The Scarlet Letter," 1962
Acrylic on canvas
51 1/4 by 45 1/8 in. 130.2 by 114.6 cm.


NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI
"Eklektiker," 2009
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 by 23 5/8 in. 80 by 60 cm.


GEORGES ROUAULT
"Christ en Croix (Calvaire)," 1930
Oil on paper laid down on panel
41 by 29 1/2 in. 104.1 by 74.9 cm.


RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON
"Maggy," 1912
Bronze with black patina
28 3/8 by 13 3/16 by 14 15/16 in. 72.1 by 33.5 by 37.9 cm.


AMANDA ROSS-HO
"Double Feature #2," 2010
High density foam, fiberglass resin, urethane primer, vacuum metallized in gold
43 by 17 by 8 in. 109.2 by 43.2 by 20.3 cm.


JOAN MITCHELL
"Beaujolais," 1966
Oil on canvas
76 by 50 in. 193 by 127 cm.


KENNETH NOLAND
"Mysteries: Off Color," 2001
Acrylic on canvas
48 by 48 in. 121.9 by 121.9 cm.


HENRI MATISSE
"Eva, Grande Chevelure," 1948
Charcoal on paper
20 11/16 by 16 in. 52.5 by 40.6 cm.


CHRIS MARTIN
"From 3am Until Dawn," 2008-09
Mixed media on canvas
49 by 54 1/8 in. 124.5 by 137.5 cm.