heather
a visual meditation on meloncholy
Howard495 is pleased to present “heather”, a group exhibition featuring work by Daniele Buetti, Robert Longo, Lisa Yuskavage, Banksy, Tim Gardner, Richard Prince, Willy Ronis, Luce Meunier, Miwa Ogasawara, Yousuf Karsh, Jonas Wood, Rene Groebli, George Tice and Caj Bremer.
Marked by an historical moment in time and a collective feeling of melancholy, “heather” provides a framework with which to explore melancholia as an aesthetic emotion. Though the works exhibited display an orchestra of form, concept and media, there is a sublime underpinning of meditative contemplation running throughout the work. This subliminal expression – not of thought but of pure emotion – is an unheralded gift. A reminder of the potential art has to invite its viewers to bear witness to their own feelings and to explore the raw edges of their conscience self. Melancholy, nuanced with sadness, suffuses the exhibition yet somehow does not elicit sadness; rather, through the work it carries us inward to a place of stillness and introspection. Attending to and contemplating what we are feeling, is where the beauty lays.
June
I am that which is idle on a summer day.
I am the mouth that does not move.
I am the dish that parts the beef like a sea.
I am the wind’s last legs at dusk.
I am six feet short of the moon,
Watching you as you sleep, and you,
Who came to my breath, perhaps expecting me
To turn up around the corner in the rain,
Like a memory of Paris, so I close my eyes
And kiss you as if I was there.
Matthew Wong

Daniele Buetti
Kate Moss (Looking for Love series)
Altered Photo on Aluminium
40.5 x 29.5 in
Edition of 3
Signed on Recto
1997
$12,000 CAD
The closing years of the twentieth century are a period in which the body is of a central importance. Exalted exorbitant prestige, beauty and sports are cultivated with almost religious devotion. Metaphors of the body are taking over our vocabulary. […] These skin drawings throw an everyday relationship into sharp relief: products, and the brand emblems get under our skin and make themselves at home in our subconscious, into which they are insinuated by the suggestive technique of advertising.
Daniele Buetti

Robert Longo
Study for “Wedge” from the Essentials Series
Charcoal and Ink on Vellum
Private Collection
Study for Wedge comes from the Monsters series of charcoal drawings that depict things at the moment of their fulfillment. The waves are presented at the top of their crests, suspended in time, displaying their unstoppable power, and imminent denouement.
Metro Picture Gallery has said about them: “Devoid of people, location and color, the looming crests of exploding power are notably singular portraits of emotional and physical forces. The near abstraction of the waves is strikingly dissimilar to the more familiar representations of the sea as poetic and romantic, or in terms of man against nature.”
…things that were existing at the moment of their being: a bomb is supposed to explode, a rose … to bloom and a wave … to crash. They are at the moment of their fulfillment.
Robert Longo

Rene Groebli
Eye of Love #510, 1953
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print
12 x 16 in
Edition 6/7
Signed, numbered in pencil
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Rene Groebli
Eye of Love #510, 1953
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print
12 x 16 in
Edition 6/7
Signed, numbered in pencil
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Rene Groebli
Eye of Love #510, 1953
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print
12 x 16 in
Edition 6/7
Signed, numbered in pencil
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BANSKY
Nola (Grey)
Screenprint in colours
29 3/4 x 21 3/4 in
2008
Signed in pencil and numbered on wove paper
Accompanied by a COA
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Richard Prince
Together
Off-set lithography, hand-cutting,
painting and assemblage
19 x 24 inches
Edition of 26 lettered A through Z. - Edition H
2008/2011
$5500

Tim Gardner
Night Ferry
Watercolour on paper
10 x 14.125 in
Private Collection

Willy Ronis
Lorraine
Silver Gelatin print
16 x 12 in
3,500 EUR
I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.
Willy Ronis
You could call [my work] a visual diary or even a personal history. I’m not going to paint something that doesn’t have anything to do with me. Of all of the possible things I could paint, the thing that interests me is something that I can get close enough to in order to paint it honestly.
Jonas Wood

Jonas Wood
Untitled Pot
Woodblock and lithography on paper
40 x 28.5 in
2009
$19,000.00 USD

Luce Meunier
Flot 6
Acrylic on cotton and linen canvas
36 x 24 in
$4,500 CAD
Luce Meunier
Flot 9
Acrylic on cotton and linen canvas
36 x 24 in
$4,500 CAD
Luce Meunier
Flot 5
Acrylic on cotton and linen canvas
36 x 24 in
$4,500 CAD

Miwa Ogasawara
Wange
Oil on Canvas
12 x 12 in
2008
$4,800 CAD

Lisa Yuskavage
Bonfire
Intaglio print with chine cole
15 x 12 in
Edition 5/14
$2,500 USD

Yousuf Karsh
Georgia O’Keeffe
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 in
1956

George Tice
Petit’s Mobil, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print
16 x 20 in
Signed in pencil on recto, titled & dated in pencil on verso
1974/Printed March 20, 2004
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