Endy Hupperich

Karen Huber Gallery presents the talk about the exhibition spaisajes estrellados - bodegones revueltos; in the company of artist Endy Hupperich and independent curator Esteban King.

Join independent curator Esteban King and artist Endy Hupperich for a talk about life, art, the roots and branches to which one stretches.

Endy Hupperich (1967, Kaufbeuren, DE) will present a body of work in which he proposes a pictorial play, where the image asserts itself as the immediate language to capture the surrealism inherent in the Mexican landscape. As we move through paisajes estrellados- bodegones revueltos we take a stroll along the hot aisles of the Sonora Market, jump seamlessly from the bustling streets of one Mexican city toanother and take part in rituals of abundance using powders acquired atour trusted witchcraft stall.

In this body of work, Hupperich’s German roots are clearly evident a she engages in a dialogue with artists such as Albert Oehlen, Werner Büttner and Martin Kippenberger. All of them were leading figures of the artistic movement known as “Neue Wilde” or “Junge Wilde”, which flourished in Germany during the 1980s. Inspired by emotion a land subjective expression, they broke with post-war conventions and minimalism, giving way to the personal narrative and spontaneous gesture that inevitably emerge in Hupperich’s work.

The installationbarra del burro-sireno, a beach souvenir that the artist brought back from one of his trips to Ensenada, reveals his multirelational inspirations, as well as his habit of resorting to the threedimensional object to project notions that turn the image into an active entity within the space.

By way of making the most of everything, the papers of the monotype series huuh, desde el esfuerzo hacia la aparición have been intervenedby the waste that remains on the paint palette after a work session. Working with signage, silkscreen and icons of Mexican popular culture, Hupperich ‘tropicalizes’ German Neo-Expressionism in compositions that celebrate the fusion of the pragmatic and the extraordinary. In thissense, Endy’s painting is a tool that recovers situations: moments of life, opportunities to move us and project genuine desires that go beyond the homogeneous (and beige) aesthetics imposed by consumer society.

In his dedication to reflect on painting, not only as a virtuous and versatile painter, but also as someone deeply committed to exploring his immediate surroundings, Hupperich invites us to free ourselves from the world dominated by spectacle and to inhabit contradiction in orderto enter into the search for authenticity; to not be afraid to feel our own sensations and to pour them onto his canvases. Because as it is said in Mexico: he who knows, knows.

— Yes Escobar