Berlin – Katharina Grosse “The Smoking Kid” at Johan König Through June 21st, 2015
Sunday, June 21st, 2015
Katharina Grosse, The Smoking Kid (Installation View), all photos via Anna Corrigan for Art Observed.
Now through June 21, Johan König in Berlin presents The Smoking Kid, a collection of new paintings by Katharina Grosse. Grosse is known for her work employing bold colors and ambitious movement in order to transcend, open, and test the limits and boundaries defining space. Color and gesture are central concerns of this artist, whose works are at once challenging and whimsical, and her current exhibition departs from Grosse’s typical method of large-scale sculptural installation, turning her abstract style instead towards work in which movement and color is tidily contained to the canvas instead of imposed onto walls and other three dimensional forms.