Winston ROETH
(Chicago, 1945)
Winston Roeth nasce a Chicago nel 1945.
Studia arte alla University of Illinois, University of New Mexico, e alla Royal Academy of Arts di Londra.
Durante gli anni '60, all'inizio della sua carriera pittorica, incontra alcuni artisti che avranno un forte impatto sulla sua produzione degli anni a venire e sulla sua concezione della pittura.
Nel 1963, ha l'occasione di vedere per la prima volta, all'Art Institute di Chicago, 'Black Square' di Ad Reinhardt: “Non sapevo di che cosa si trattasse, ma sentivo che aveva qualcosa di speciale da comunicare” ha rivelato in un secondo tempo. Da allora, Reinhardt diventa un punto di riferimento nella ricerca pittorica di Roeth.
Tre anni dopo, Roeth viene catturato dall'opera 'Nebraska' di Brice Marden, della quale invece l'artista americano apprezza il senso di “novità” e “libertà” che ispira.
Negli anni 1968 e 1969, mentre sta frequentando il Royal College of Art a Londra, Roeth dipinge una serie di pannelli colorati (274x365cm) che rappresentano un punto di svolta per la sua carriera da artista. Lo stesso Roeth afferma che “I dipinti iniziavano con una singola pennellata, smettevo di dipingere solo quando l'intera superficie era ricoperta dal colore. Ci vollero giorni, usai solo un pennello piccolo. Un unico colore... era più che sufficiente. Mi sentivo libero”.
Nel 1974, presso la Robert Elkon Gallery di NY, vede esposta una serie di disegni di Agnes Martin, dei quali ricorda perfettamente la “chiarezza” e “precisione”, il tratto leggero li rende trascendenti.
La fenomenologia del colore, della luce e dello spazio rappresenta un tema centrale della pratica pittorica di Roeth.
Dopo anni di esplorazione sulla luce e sul colore, arriva a sviluppare una tecnica precisa. Usando un pennello stende il pigmento puro, strato dopo strato, mischiandolo ad acqua e ad un'emulsione di poliuretano, finchè l'intera superficie della tela non è stata ricoperta. Tutti i suoi sforzi sono incentrati nel tentativo di trovare la giusta saturazione del colore, in modo tale che dai pigmenti scaturisca luce pura.
Oggi, Winston Roeth è un artista di fama mondiale. La sua attività si svolge principalmente tra lo studio in Maine, luogo a lui molto caro, e quello a Beacon, New York; tuttavia, tiene mostre personali in tutta Europa, prevalentemente in Germania e in Italia, e in Australia.
Alcune sue opere sono entrate a far parte della prestigiosa collezione di Giuseppe Panza di Biumo.
Lavora con sua moglie Susan Osberg, una coreografa e ballerina; insieme hanno creato alcune scenografie del Dance Theatre e collaborato con la lighting designer Susanne Poulin.
MOSTRE PERSONALI
2020-2021
Speed of light, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2018
The Speed of Light, Galerie Vera Murno, Hamburg, Germany
Trabajos Destacados, Xavier Fiol Project Space, Madrid, Spain
Catalogue launch and new drawings exhibition, Galerie Christian Lathert, Cologne, Germany
2017
Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Jensen Gallery Sysdney, Australia
2015
New Works, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Frank Gerritz and Winston Roeth, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany (with Frank Gerritz)
2013
Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Xavier Fiol Galeria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2012
Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Galeria Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2011
Works on Paper, Olschewski+Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
Xavier Fiol Galeria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY, USA
2007
Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2006
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Gallery Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
2004
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2002
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
New Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001
Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo
Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo, Sassuolo, Italy
2000
Gallerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1998
Artothek, Cologne, Germany
1997
Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1996
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
1995
Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1993
Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Drawings, Galleri Ars Nova, Goteborg, Sweden
1992
Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1991
Galleri Ars Nova, Goteborg, Sweden
1990
Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989
Invitational Exhibition, Griffin McGear Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1988
Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1980
The Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ, USA
MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2020
The Unseen Masterpiece, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2019
Permafrost, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Sidney, Australia
2018
Portrait without a Face, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Sidney, Australia
Twenty, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2017
COLOR as attitude. Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Winston Roeth, Phil Sims, Osart Gallery, Milan
IN NEUEN RÄUMEN!, Galerie Christian Lathert, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Blickwechsel, Kunstraum Alexander-Buerkle, Freiburg Germany
2015
Painting Well after Formalism, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Auckland, Australia
The Authority Of Death, Jensen Gallery Auckland, Auckland, Australia
Pink. Ruff-Nikolic-Leigh-Roeth-Knoebel-Humphries, Jensen Gallery, Sydney,
Australia Galerie Artists, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2014
Elemental: Susan English, Winston Roeth and Greg Slick, Matteawan Gallery, New York, NY, USA connect., Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
Haupt- und Nebenwege, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
2013
Points of Orientation, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Rim. Imi Knoebel, Winston Roeth, Tomislav Nikolic, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Once upon a time and a very good time it was..., Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Touching Colour, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
INDICATE, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Farben – Colours, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus and Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
2012
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
Works on Paper, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Fox/Jensen & Greenwood Street Project, Victoria, Australia
2010
Naked, Jensen Gallery, Auchland, New Zealand
Painting, Howard Yezerki Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2009
Other Voices, Other Roomes, curated by Steven Evans, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA
2008
Straight Forward: Tobias Trutwin, Karoly Keseru, Frank Gerritz, Winston Roeth, Pablo’s Birthday, NY,
New York, USA
20/20, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Recent acquisitions, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA
2007
The Panza Collection: An Experience of Colour and Light, Albright-Knox, Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA
All from America (Part Two), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
Headspace, Jensen Gallery, Auchland, New Zealand
2006
All From America (Part One), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
Detox, Jensen Gallery, New Zealand
Modern ’06, Bartha Contemporary, Residenz, Munich, Germany
2005
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Reflex: The Brain Closer than the Eye, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
Modern ’05, Bartha Contemporary, Residenz, Munich, Germany
First Choice, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
Minimal Means, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany
Frank Gerritz and Winston Roeth, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
Lux, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2004
Einblick – Ausblick, Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany
There’s Joy in Repetition, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2003
Seascape, Landscape, Territory, Nusser Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2002
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
White, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2001
Radical Painting, curated by Nino Weinstock, Villa Aichele, Städtische Galerie, Lörrach, Germany 1999
Then & Now, The Work Space (curated by Theresa Chong), New York, NY, USA
1998
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1997
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Drawing From Life, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1996
La Collezione Panza di Biumo. Artist degli anni '80 e '90, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Trento e Roverto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy * White, Howard Scott-M13 Gallery, New York, NY, USA Drawings, Galerie Art In, Nuremburg, Germany
1995
Color: Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery (curated by Richard Kalina), New York, NY, USA
The Panza di Biumo Donation, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Light/Body - Dark/Body, collaboration with Susan Osberg, dancer/ choreographer; Dia Center for the Arts and Unga Atalante, Goteborg, Sweden
1994
The Constructive Vocabulary: An American Vision, Galerie Dr. Istvan Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA
Collector's Choice: Natalie and Irving Forman, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Ars Nova Galleri, Goteborg, Sweden
1993
Uses of Geometry: Winston Roeth, Cary Smith, Stephen Westfall,etc., Snyder Fine Arts, New York, USA
Supervision, Raum fur neue Kunst, Wuppertal, Germany
Sublime Presence: Stuart Arends, Madeline O'Connor, Florence, Italy
Pierce, Winston Roeth, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Contemporary Drawing - Part II, Arena, New York, NY, USA
1992
7-NY: Directions in Abstract Painting, Studio A, Museum Moderner Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Cultural Fabrication, John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Mercury, Light installation, Stark Gallery (Annex), New York, NY, USA
1991
Abstraction: Recent Prints, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, NY, USA
The Process of Looking, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Geometric Considerations, Capital Cities/ABC, New York, NY, USA
Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1990
Opening Group Exhibition, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Cruciform, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989
M-13 Gallery, New York, NY, USA
An Extraction of Form, Robeson Center Gallery (curated by Alison Weld), Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA;
Three Artists Who Work With Slate, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Small Works on Paper, Susanna Sheffield Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Pastel Drawings, Islip Museum (curated by Karen Shaw), Islip, New York, NY, USA
Light Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1988-89
Collaboration with Susan Osberg, dancer/choreographer; Malcolm Goldstein, violinist/composer and Susanne Poulin, lighting designer; Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
1986
Intuition, collaboration with Susan Osberg, choreographer and James Tenney, composer; Riverside Dance Festival, New York, NY, USA
1986
Slate, An installation at Springs Industries; project of the Art Advisory Service, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA