Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce the third exhibition of works by the British painter Richard Smith.
Richard Smith was one of the most influential artists of his generation in Great Britain the 1960s. While Smith's early work was predominantly concerned with American Abstract Expressionism, he began to integrate elements of the then-emerging Pop Art into his work in the 1960s. Since the early 1970s, Smith's work has dealt intensively with the relationship between illusionistic color space and three-dimensional architectural space.
Works from the "paper pulps" series created in 1981 are on display and represent a further development of this examination. In the relief-like, collaged works, Smith fans out his vocabulary of color and form over various levels, thus generating a pictorial space that makes the exhibition space part of the picture.