JONATHAN LASKER RECENT

GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE 27 APRIL to 29 JUNE 2019

For Now or Forever (detail), 2017, oil on linen • 191 x 254 cm | 75 1/4 x 100 in Galerie Thomas Schulte presents an exhibition with new paintings by Contact the New York-based artist Jonathan Lasker (born 1948 in Galerie Thomas Schulte City, NJ, USA). Lasker made use of the art world’s conceptual turn in the Charlottenstraße 24 1980s, engaging in new possibilities of , and so developing the D-10117 Berlin abstract formal idiom that has come to characterize his oeuvre. Resisting fon: +49 (0)30 2060 8990 the Lyrical Abstraction, Field Painting and Minimalist movements of fax: +49 (0)30 2060 89910 the 1970s, Lasker saw himself confronted with the challenge of pictorial [email protected] invention. As an answer to this quest, he devised a self-referential system www.galeriethomasschulte.de using a vocabulary of sign-like shapes and colors. The formal language of his paintings is abstract, while the visual means range from simple line Gonzalo Alarcón drawings to thick paste-like applications of paint. While Lasker mostly +49 (173) 66 46 623 works with large-scale formats, he also explores smaller compositions. [email protected] His small maquettes allow for precise attention to detail, which the artist subsequently reproduces in his large-scale paintings. Thus Lasker turns Eike Dürrfeld the organic, subjective and gestural pictorial idiom of painting into an +49 (172) 30 89 074 increasingly intellectual process. [email protected] Jonathan Lasker studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City Luigi Nerone between 1975 and 1977, and at the California Institute of the Arts in +49 (172) 30 89 076 1977. In 2000 he was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at The Lon- [email protected] don Institute. Notable solo exhibitions include shows at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne (2015), K20 Kunstsammlung Juliane Pönisch Nordrhein-Westfalen and Museo Reina Sofía (2003), the Kunsthalle [email protected] Bielefeld (1997/98), and the Stedelijk Museum (1998). Selected group exhibitions include the Neue Galerie in Kassel (2011/12), Pinakothek der Moderne (2009), MUDAM, Luxembourg (2008), Centre Georges Pompidou (2007), “la Caixa” Foundation in Barcelona (2002), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, St. Étienne (1997), Hayward Gallery (1994), Documenta (1992), and MoMA P.S.1 (1992). His work is included in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, The British Library, the , Washington D.C., Daros Collection, Fond National d’Art Contemporain, “la Caixa” Foundation, LACMA, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, Mod- erna Museet, Museo Reina Sofía, , Cologne, New York Public Library, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Jonathan Lasker lives and works in New York City.

2,3 right Platonic Landscape, 2018 Oil on linen 152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

following pages For Now or Forever, 2017 Oil on linen 191 x 254 cm | 75 1/4 x 100 in

The Remnant of Spirit, 2015 Oil on linen 4,5 191 x 254 cm | 75 1/4 x 100 in

right Ideal Interior (detail), 2018 Oil on linen 152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

following pages Ideal Interior, 2018 Oil on linen 10,11 152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

top right Yet Untitled, 2018 Oil on linen 30 x 41 cm | 12 x 16 in

bottom right Yet Untitled, 2018 Oil on linen 30 x 41 cm | 12 x 16 in

following pages Lasker, 2019 Oil on linen 152 x 203 cm | 59 3/4 x 80 in

The Revisionist´s Memory, 2017 Oil on linen 20,21 191 x 191 cm | 75 1/4 x 75 1/4 in Publisher Galerie Thomas Schulte GmbH Charlottenstraße 24 D-10117 Berlin fon: +49 (0)30 20 60 89 90 www.galeriethomasschulte.de

© 2019 the artist, the photographers and Galerie Thomas Schulte

This dossier was published on the occasion of the upcoming exhibition by Jonathan Lasker (27 April to 29 June 2019).