Drawings of Wes Mills in Essen

From May to July 2008 recent works of the American artist Wes Mills will be shown at GAM Obrist Gallery in Essen. Wes Mills was born 1960 in Tucson, Arizona and lives near Missoula in Montana, USA. He became famous in the US through various gallery and museum exhibitions from New York to San Francisco. In Europe he became known to a wider public, when some of his drawings were selected for the cover and booklet of the Nine Horses / David Sylvian album "Snow Bourne Sorrow". With his presentation at GAM Gallery Wes Mills will be shown for the first time in Northrhine-Westphalia.
The art historian Susanne Husse says about his work: "Mills’ small-format drawings can be interpreted as the stages of a restless wanderer through inner landscapes in the reflection of the exterior. He works mainly with the “non-colours” black and white, and thus produces a tonally reduced vision, impossible for the human eye alone. In the black and white contrast of “artificial” vision, the formal character of the pictorial content becomes more vivid, and allows references to metaphysical and emotional dimensions."

Title: Wes Mills - drawings
Opening Reception: May 30, 2008, 7 pm
Exhibition: May 31 – July 15, 2008

GAM | Galerie Obrist am Museum
Torsten Obrist | Juri Czyborra
Kahrstrasse 59
45128 Essen / Germany
phone +49 (0)201 72 66 203
info@gam-essen.de
www.gam-essen.de
Opening Hours: Tue - Fri 12-7pm, Sat 10-6pm

The gallery was founded in 2000 in Essen, Germany, by art historian Torsten Obrist. In 2006 the gallerist started a companionship with art manager Juri Czyborra. The gallery then moved to the new location very close to the Museum Folkwang, where it is situated still now.
On 300 sqm of exhibition space the gallery holds 7-8 exhibitions a year with both national and international artists. The emphasis is on dealing and communicating of contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography.
In continual and personal collaboration with the artists the gallery conveys their
work in regular single exhibitions, publications and fairs.

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