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until 27.04. | #4623ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 14th March 2025 (Opening: 13.03.) the Duo Exhibition „The Wisdom of the Peacocks“ by the artist Wolfgang Flad and Rémy Hysbergue.
Luisa Catucci Gallery, in collaboration with Jaeger Art Advisory, is delighted to present The Wisdom of the Peacock, an artistic dialogue between two exceptional masters of color—Berlin-based Wolfgang Flad and Paris-based Rémy Hysbergue. Both artists, mutual admirers of each other’s work, explore materiality, light, and abstraction in a captivating exchange that bridges sculpture and painting.
Wolfgang Flad, Courtesy Luisa Catucci Gallery.
Wolfgang Flad’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in relief and texture, incorporating abstract aluminum casts, iridescent glass works, and mixed-media compositions. His recent series, Dark Side of the Moon, features intricate reliefs veiled behind reflective, color-shifting glass panels, challenging the viewer’s perspective and engagement with the work. These sculptural pieces echo lunar landscapes—cratered surfaces, cosmic depth, and shifting light—while simultaneously inviting interpretations that range from oceanic shallows to interstellar formations. The mirrored surfaces integrate the viewer’s own reflection into the artwork, collapsing physical, pictorial, and human space into a singular, fluctuating entity. With a career that spans international exhibitions and museum acquisitions—including a monumental installation at the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida—Flad remains an influential force in contemporary abstract sculpture and relief.
Rémy Hysbergue, Courtesy Luisa Catucci Gallery
Rémy Hysbergue’s paintings extend the discourse on materiality and space through an entirely different yet equally immersive approach. His works, whether executed on mirrored polymethyl methacrylate or silk velvet, explore the tension between depth and flatness, concealment and revelation. His works blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, the tactile and the elusive, drawing the viewer into a dynamic interplay of material contrast: matte versus shiny, raw versus refined, near versus distant. By contrast, his paintings on velvet evoke the richness of Mark Rothko’s color fields, absorbing light to create dense, enveloping spatial illusions.
Hysbergue’s compositions often incorporate wide-angle perspectives through the meticulous repetition of gestural brushstrokes. In some of his darker works, luminescent waves appear to emerge from shadowed depths, recalling moonlit seas and shifting nocturnal landscapes. In others, subtle horizon lines introduce a sense of distance and mystery, inviting the viewer to navigate layered spaces that shift between the known and the unknown. Vertical interruptions or sudden shifts in tone disrupt conventional perspective, creating an effect of disorientation and depth that compels a prolonged engagement with the painting. His exploration of contrasts—light and shadow, transparency and opacity—reinforces the dynamic tension that underpins his artistic vision. His works, whether executed on mirrored polymethyl methacrylate or silk velvet, explore the tension between depth and flatness, concealment and revelation. Hysbergue’s international career includes solo exhibitions such as “Sidérales” at Galerie Richard in Paris, and his first solo exhibition in Asia, held in Seoul, South Korea.
Opening: Thursday, 13th March 2025, 18:00 – 21:00 Uhr
Exhibition date: Friday, 14th March – Sunday, 27th April 2025
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Image Caption Title: Wolfgang Flad – Luisa Catucci Gallery
Wolfgang Flad + Rémy Hysbergue – Luisa Catucci Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries| ART at Berlin
