Volker Hueller’s canvases blend etching with watercolour to produce worlds of fragmentary distortion of recognizable imagery. In Hueller’s portraits, delicate and agile etched lines are painted over with swaths of muted tones, creating a patchwork of textured colour which produce unstable and mutable grounds. Critic Roberta Smitha described Hueller’s paintings as ‘highly reactive’, fluctuating and ‘changing as the light shifts’. The artist’s commitment to geometric figuration recalls expressive canvases by Paul Klee and Jean Dubuffet, who sought out new forms of non-traditional expression. In My Portrait In The Year 2080, 2007, Hueller’s etched visage contains a chromatic geometry of decorative patterning and painterly swaths. Representation, for the artist, entwines with abstraction to create a portrait that is forever undergoing a process of transformation.
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