Timothy Taylor Gallery

Volker Hueller’s hand-coloured etchings score out the forms of harlequined physiognomies set into dark and ambivalent landscapes. Taking the form of portraits or narratives, the muted palette and dense atmosphere hint at a suppressed violence that is rich with historical references from Art Nouveau to early Surrealism. In addition to these figurative works, Hueller’s large-scale collaged canvases are seemingly abstract, the monchrome surface emphasising the patchwork textures: fake fur, leather, metallic sheeting, PVC and reptile-skin-patterned materials. Yet, from his trademark interlocking fragments and planes emerge hints of figurative forms creating an oscillation between abstraction and figuration: the narratives dissolve into ornamentation while the forms of the broken planes evoke the human form.

Hueller was born in 1976 in Forchheim, Germany. He studied at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, under Professor Norbert Schwontkowski. Recently presenting a body of new work in a solo exhibition at The Viewing Room at Timothy Taylor Gallery, 2010, Hueller has also exhibited with the gallery on two prior occasions in group exhibitions: The Mouse, The Bird and the Sausage in 2007, and Ventriloquist in 2009. Hueller has also recently had solo exhibitions at Eleven Rivington and Salon 94 in New York, and Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

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