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Exhibition
Henning Haupt: Drawing Lines—Making Space On view thru 05. 17. 14 at Coral Springs Museum of Art www.coralspringsmuseum.org
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of Art presents Drawing Lines– Making Space, an exhibition featuring a new body of work by Henning Haupt, a German artist and educator based in Fort Lauderdale. His work explores spatial qualities within drawings, paintings and threedimensional installations. Haupt’s paintings explore visual, spatial compositions by using different modes of line structures in combination with fields of painted colors. The impetus of drawing, the gestural character of the line, results in forms, spaces, and movements that are in tension with serial patterns of the application. His three-dimensional installations are built out of paintings with spatial compositions of lines and color. By placing the paintings in space, Haupt builds a combination of visual and physical spaces. The results may hint to something intangible within the colorspace, yet they are demonstrations of the relationship between a thought and its physical execution in a material. The work