Artist's REVIEWS
The New York Time, September 15, 1996
Esthetic Alchemy and Surprising Photos
"Winners '96" By Helen A. Harrison,
The show includes work by the top award winners
of this year's juried art exhibition chosen by Jennifer Blessing, a curator
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the photography exhibition, for
which Thomas Collins of the Museum of Modern Art was juror.
Helmut Amann's geometric wall relief's
play with perceptions in an optical sense, using color and shape to
imply depth and movement where none exist. Each element is painted and
inscribed to suggest three-dimensional structures although they are
actually almost flat. Almost, but not quite. They are also almost all
the same, but subtly varied within each grouping, creating a captivating
progression of gradual metamorphosis from one form to the next.
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