Endy Hupperich

Galería Karen Huber presents the opening of the gallery’s third solo exhibition of the German artist Endy Hupperich who will bepresenting paisajes estrellados - bodegones revueltos.

On this occasion 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 compositionsthat 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 beyondthe 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.

Endy Hupperich(1967, Kaufbeuren, DE) studied at Akademie der Bil-denden Künste München (the Academy of Plastic Arts in Munich) wherehe was an assistant to KarlImhofand a pupil of Helmut Sturm. In 1992 Hupperich arrived in Mexico and since then he works and lives between Germany and different parts of Mexico. In 2000 he received a scholar-ship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). In 2003 hewas part of Gotas para los ojos, group exhibition at Museo de Arte Con-temporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO) (Oaxaca), making his way into the na-tional art scene.

Between 2002 and 2004 he was a visiting professor at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (ENPEG) “La Esmeralda” (MexicoCity). Later, in 2007, a long with other German artists, he was part of the exhibition Vistazo at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City). Since then, he has participated in various exhibitions in galleries and museums in Germany, Mexico, Spain and Serbia.

Among his most recent exhibitions stand out: Poche Parole Tanti Fatti (Pocas palabras muchos hechos) at Residencia 797 (Guadalajara, 2021); Rien ne vas plus avec muse (2021) and Un litro y dos en la esquina(2018), solo shows at Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City) and the collective shows Pintura Reactiva, curated by Carlos Palacios at Museo de Arte CarrilloGil (Mexico City, 2018) and The Artist Columned Hallat STOA169 Stiftung(Polling, 2020).

— Galería Karen Huber