Florian Schmidt

24 May - 21 Jul. 2012



Installation view - Gallery


Galleria Suzy Shammah presents Hold, the second solo show in Italy by the Austrian artist Florian Schmidt. The exhibition’s title defines a series of large-scale works realized with layers of cotton and cardboard and held together by thin wooden frames.
Untitled(Ribbon)05, 2012
vinyl, acrylic gel, lacquer, cardboard, canvas, wood
210 x 150 x 22 cm
Installation view - Gallery
Untitled(Hold)22, 2012
vinyl, acrylic gel, lacquer, cardboard, canvas, cotton, wood
214 x 154 cm
Untitled(Hold)21, 2012
vinyl, acrylic gel, lacquer, graphite, wood, cotton
214 x 154 cm


In all the works series presented in this exhibition, which in addition to Hold include Share, Beside, Immunity and Ribbon, the artist gets to a painterly result through a process of layering, by adding and subtracting elements proper to a vocabulary of abstract painting. Following precise composition rules, Schmidt uses fragments of former artworks as primary material for his new paintings.
Installation view - Gallery

Untitled(Beside)01, 2012
acrylic gel, lacquer, vinyl, cardboard, wood
37 x 37 cm

Untitled(Beside)02, 2012
acrylic gel, lacquer, vinyl, cardboard, wood
37 x 37 cm

Untitled(Beside)03, 2012
acrylic gel, lacquer, vinyl, cardboard, wood
37 x 37 cm

Untitled(Beside)04, 2012

acrylic gel, lacquer, vinyl, cardboard, wood

37 x 37 cm

Installation view - Exhibition room

Untitled(Immunity)18, 2012

acrylic gel, lacquer, vinyl, cardboard, wood

125 x 120 cm


In the series Share for example, rest pieces of previous works from 2009 - year of Schmidt’s first solo show in Milan - up until today are assembled together to form separate compositions which progress outlining a colourful diagonal line. The issues under artistic examination embodied in each painting series are interconnected and continuously re-examined at different points in time through diverse modes. 

Florian Schmidt (Raabs an der Thaya, 1980) lives in Berlin. He has shown extensively throughout Europe and USA including solo shows in London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris and San Francisco. 

Installation view - Exhibition room

Untitled(Share)02, 2012
vinyl, acrylic gel, lacquer, cardboard, wood
60 x 42 cm

Untitled(Share)04, 2012
vinyl, acrylic gel, lacquer, cardboard, wood
60 x 42 cm

Untitled(Share)06, 2012
vinyl, acrylic gel, lacquer, cardboard, wood
60 x 42 cm

Untitled(Share)08, 2012
vinyl, acrylic gel, lacquer, cardboard, wood
60 x 42 cm

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