May 29, 2008

CURRENT PRESS RELEASE

WES MILLS - DRAWINGS

Exhibition May 30 - August 16, 2008

Opening Reception:
Friday, May 30, 2008, 7pm


From May to August 2008 recent works of the American artist Wes Mills will be shown at our gallery. 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 Borne 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."