Exhibition
Richard Jackson. Works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof
May 19, 2006 – August 13, 2006, Rieckhallen im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (D)
The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection is pleased to present its second one-man retrospective, dedicated to the American artist Richard Jackson. Since the 1960s, Jackson has concerned himself with a neo-Pollockian concept of performative painting.
A self-confessed art anarchist who grew up during the zeitgeist of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson works with paint and canvas, yet the result is not painting in its traditional sense, but rather an exponentially expanded field. Creating architectural spaces made up of canvases, or wall-filling paintings produced by using reversed, mechanically rotating canvases, this retrospective of Jackson’s work presents a unique glimpse into the artist’s unique aesthetic investigations.
With three of Jackson's large-scale key works from the 1980s, and a selection of his conceptual models and drawings, the Flick Collection’s presentation of Jackson’s work is the first in Berlin to offer a complete survey this Los Angeles-based artist.