Susan Weil: Once In A Blue Moon
This exhibition marked the first time the US painter Susan Weil, b. 1930, presented her work at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle. The artist studied at Black Mountain College under Josef Albers, together with Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. Despite her abstract expressionist style, the artist, unlike her male counterparts, never let herself be influenced by the prevailing tendencies of the time. An important member of the New York School of Art, Susan Weil refuses to be categorized in any one style, and despite being influenced by abstract expressionism, she never completely forgot about the power of the figurative.
The exhibition Once In A Blue Moon comprises seminal works from 1989 to the present. Taking familiar objects as a starting point, Susan Weil reduces all elements to their intrinsic nature to then reconstruct them in unexpected ensembles. Her work Wandering Chairs, a cooperation with her son Christopher Rauschenberg, consists of two chairs and the artist’s portrait, assembled like a puzzle from our different pieces. The viewer’s searching eye is first captured by the entire picture full of movement and disruption. Gradually, one is willing to engage in the artist’s game, constructing with her a new world in which the objects find each other in unanticipated ways.
