Petzel Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by German artist Georg Herold from the late 1980s, in many cases on view for the first time in New York. The exhibition runs from November 6 to December 21 and marks the artists third solo show at Petzel and his first at the gallerys Upper East Side location. Rejecting traditional materials, Herold creates sculptures, assemblages and wall-based drawings using commonplace items such as bricks, baking powder, wood lath, vodka bottles, buttons, electrical cords, underwear and mattresses usually altering them very little, if at all. As Herold said in 1988, my choice of materials is not subject to any conscious esthetic criteria. The materials must merely be able to absorb and transport my ideas. I do not use materials that speak their own language as a matter of principle. This is why I seek out stupid, unplaned mater
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