Accrochage 2.1

Luc Moulène, Paul Pagk, Florian Pumhösl, R. H. Quaytman, Jean-Eileen Quinlan, Raha Raissnia, Jimmy Raskin

Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to present Accrochage 2.1, an installation of paintings, photographs, a sculpture, and a collage by gallery artists.

As it turns out, the unintentional theme of the show is the appearance of a veiled figure in a number of the works included in the show. In Jimmy Raskin’s Station 9, a full-length image of the artist in a black suit with his head cropped out emerges symmetrically on both sides of a central cone shaped graphic. He stands in what resembles a blurry autumn landscape. A portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach is revealed in a 19th-century etching of the painting by Friedrich Müller. It was famously discovered by R. H. Quaytman as lying behind Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus and constitutes the subject of קקח , Chapter 29. In Blake Rayne’s Spit Test, cloud like gestural formations dominate the composition. A network of black lines to the right point to a possible stick figure. For his part, Jean-Luc Moulène’s positive, filled out rendition of a wild boar’s rib cage might bring to mind the head of agarden gnome. Finally, the oversized head of a man in profile emerges out of darkness in Raha Raissnia’s Untitled painting which closes the exhibition.

If the destiny of art is to manifest the invisible, this grouping of works pays homage to this mystery.