Helmut Löhr: Visual Text Photographs, Collages, Books & Objects

May 20, 1995 - June 30, 1995

Held concurrently with a showing of his art project at the International Library in The Center for Book arts in Soho, Visual Text at Ubu Gallery was Helmut Löhr’s first solo exhibition in New York. A dual resident of Düsseldorf and New York, Löhr—at the time this exhibition opened—had participated in over 170 gallery and museum shows in Europe, Japan and the United States. Celebrating his fifteen years of living and working in New York, this exhibition surveyed Löhr’s visual text collages, artist’s books, photographs and objects, made during those years.

ARTIST
Helmut Löhr

RESOURCES
Exhibition checklist
Press release
Announcement edition ubu #4

PRESS
The New York Times / “Books Are for Reading?” / June 16, 1995 / Pepe Karmel / 1 reproduction
The New York Observer / Gallery Watch: “Mutant Materials” / June 19, 1995 / Grace Glueck

Founded in 1994, Ubu Gallery has presented almost 100 exhibitions of 20th Century avant-garde art, with an emphasis on the inter-war period of the 1920s-1930s, particularly the Dada, Surrealist, and Constructivist movements. Ubu exhibits paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, and ephemera (books, posters, graphic design, etc.) and, wherever possible, highlights the interrelationships among these art forms.

Ubu Gallery is a well-known presence on the international cultural scene and enjoys a worldwide reputation for its serious explorations of areas covered by few other galleries, including acclaimed survey exhibitions of Polish, Romanian and Czech avant-garde art. Ubu’s focus on the avant-garde, particularly on historically important artists and movements that have not received appropriate attention, has earned the gallery frequent reviews in press throughout the world focused on the visual arts. Ubu participates in the most important Parisian art fair, FIAC, held annually in the Grand Palais (2010-2016), and has participated significantly in Art Basel (2003–2011) and the encyclopedic Frieze Masters fair (2012–2015) showcasing the best of antiquities to modern art, in Regent's Park in London.

Helmut Löhr: Visual Text Photographs, Collages, Books & Objects

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