GOTTFRIED HONEGGER – LAHUMIERE
Galerie Lahumière, 17 rue du parc Royal, 75003 Paris, http://www.lahumiere.com/
May 12 - July 7, 2012
After making his farewell to painting, Gottfried Honegger has begun reconciling himself with the wall—a task less simple than it may seem. Sculpture remains the plastic form with which Honegger is most at ease, even when it runs up against a wall. Made of painted iron, his graceful, autonomous silhouettes (as he calls them) don a shadow when Honegger adopts the wall. Some shapes evoke the letters G and O, as in his first name, Gottfried, which means “god’s peace.” So maybe therein lies his reconciliation with the wall: being at peace with his environment.