01 Nov Alan Ebnother
ARTIST
Alan Ebnother
1952
geboren in Alameda, Kalifornien
1971
Joffrey Ballet School, New York
1987
erstes grünes Tondo
seit 1991
vertreten durch die Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart
Alan Ebnother is one of the artists with whom Galerie Braun has been collaborating for a very long time. We offered him an exhibition as early as 1991; at the time, we were one of the first galleries in Europe to do so. This was followed by numerous solo and group exhibitions covering all phases of his work. These also include the ‘Paintings on Paper’, which were created in 2002 in his new studio in New Mexico following a lengthy break from painting. The catalogue is still available. In September 2006, the exhibition ‘Farbmalerei anders’ (A Different Approach to Colour Painting) will open, featuring six other artists.
Ebnother’s works can be found in museums in the USA and in Zurich, as well as in private collections in America and Europe. We hold works from every period of his career.
KATALOGBUCH “Ebnother grün” (print) verfügbar
Ebnother, a trained ballet dancer who performed first with the Stuttgart company and later with the Hamburg company, began using a palette knife and brush after 1975 to transpose the pas de deux onto the canvas: He piles the pigments thickly, delves into the monochrome green surface and dances across the wet paint with a stroke of his palette knife or brush; the smooth surface is shaken by barely perceptible ripples of colour. In this way, the artist gives the paint form and shape – and only in this way, for he allows neither frame nor underdrawing to provide a firm anchor. Even the support itself seems to vanish beneath the impasto application of paint; it is only in the works on paper that the standard painting support holds its own against the paint.
