Robert Holyhead

Accompanying the solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2014),
this slender publication presents a group of exciting new works by British
contemporary artist Robert Holyhead. Holyhead's freely brushed, intensely
colored paintings engage the tension between color and form through additions
and erasures of the painted surface with blocks, ovals and rectangles acting as
pins, wedges, slots, slits and focal points. Many of Holyhead's painted shapes
seem to float on the canvas and, in the artist's words, pierce the space open
for the viewer. Twenty-three color plates of the work and installation are
accompanied by London-based artist/writer David Ryan's detailed discussion
on Holyhead's exquisite sense of craft and the malleability, opacity and light
of his new paintings.