MARTIN WEINSTEIN Continuum: A History of Impermanence

MARTIN WEINSTEIN Continuum: A History of Impermanence.

A Solo Exhibition by Martin Weinstein

Curated by Priska Juschka

Exhibition Catalog Available (Essay by Priska Juschka)

Exhibition Dates: February 6 – March 1, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 | 6 – 8 PM

Press Release:
Lichtundfire is pleased to present and welcomes all to Continuum: A History of Impermanence, a Solo
Exhibition by New York artist Martin Weinstein with a selection of works ranging across more than forty
years, and his second solo exhibition at the gallery.
The group of mainly paintings in various media explores the transition that work can engage in over time,
while keeping close to the core of subject-matter, process and viewpoint.
Martin Weinstein has painted interiors and exteriors in direct contact with his subjects since the 1980s–
carefully observing the changes of light, season, or time of day impactful to his compositions.

Weinstein, trained as an abstract artist, having been part of the Abstract-Minimalist movement in New
York City, made the, for the observer unlikely, transition from an abstract painter to one that explores
conceptual representation. Using a method of observing space and time in situ that makes him a
contemporary plein-air artist as much as his observations of interiors, objects and, at times, subjects that
connect him with artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Félix Vallotton who, at the end of
the 19th Century, and the beginning of the 20th Century, experimented with space and its objects/
subjects reconstructed and reconfigured.

There is an added Surrealist element in his works that show both interiors and exteriors layered, and
interwoven, when Weinstein constructs spaces that have an inside-outside or outside-inside perspective
inextricably interlaced, creating an unexpected and uncommon point of view of space, subjects, and all
things depicted-; a sensation and perspective of space and time, that reminds of M.C. Escher’s fantastical
perspectives or some of the Surrealists’ Salvador Dali’s or Giorgio de Chirico’s compositions.
There’s also a kinship to J.M.W. Turner’s tradition of Romantic landscape painting. His landscapes are
combinations of both, expressionist compositions with emphasized colors and virtuous movement as well
as translucent impressionist studies of minutes, hours, days, months, and years.

The exhibition sheds light on Weinstein’s work that utilizes both interior and exterior space to create a
complex in-side-out or outside-in perspective that pushes the cognitive process beyond the familiar and
into the unknown. The transition from a less complex picture plane, still more intact in his earlier works, to
complex compositions, painted with acrylic paint on layers of acrylic sheets in clear plexiglass boxes,
allows Weinstein the successful transcription of the fluidity of the observed without losing the authenticity
of the depicted in the course. This untraditional medium enables him both to create space as we
construct it from memory rather than in real time, and to recapture the events that unfold in real-time and
are etched in our memory.This exhibition shows Martin Weinstein’s decade-long, ongoing, and progressive investigation of time and
space, and his dedication and endeavor to communicate what is equally truly personal and utmost
universal – the way we experience and observe the continuous impermanence of the human condition.

The Exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with an essay by Lichtundfire’s Director Priska Juschka, and
designed by Susanna Ronner Graphic Design.

For additional information, images, events and to arrange an appointment, please contact Priska Juschka
at info@lichtundfire.com .

About Lichtundfire:

LICHTUNDFIRE was established in 2015, with a visual program emphasizing nonrepresentational,
conceptual, and abstract art; especially minimal, color field, geometrical, straight edge, abstract
expressionist painting, lyrical abstraction, and process work in all media, as well as abstracted,
conceptual representation.
Through its exhibitions, Lichtundfire's program is dedicated to developing and nurturing an active,
engaged, progressive, and emancipated art community that addresses cultural and social realities as
expressed through visual arts.
Beyond its carefully curated visual program, Lichtundfire seeks to actively connect with other parts of the
creative community, especially in the field of poetry, literature, philosophy, and Critical Theory.

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