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  • Stefan Hirsig

    Galerie Klosterfelde

    Stefan Hirsig’s collages are the persistence of painting through different means. In his earlier paintings and murals, the Berlin artist, born in 1966, had already assimilated the Pop aesthetic: Sports-car chassis and electronic gadgets or rumpled jeans and hands with painted fingernails were combined with citations from art of the last forty years—a few streaks of color à la Morris Louis here, cool graphics reminiscent of James Rosenquist there, all delicately layered. In Hirsig’s new work, this play of cultural codes is further intensified. At the center of the eighteen collages shown here

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