Charline von Heyl: Why-a-Duck? - October 10th, 2024

'Charline Von Heyl: Interventionist Demonstration (Why-A-Duck?)' was published on the occasion of a solo-exhibition of the same name held at Corbett vs. Dempsey from May 2nd to June 7th, 2014. 

56 pages
10 x 8 in
Softcover, perfectbound
Cover blind-embossed
ISBN: 978-0-9896512-7-1
Design by Sonnenzimmer

'Charline von Heyl: Interventionist Demonstration (Why-A-Duck?)' was von Heyl’s first solo-exhibition in Chicago. 

“Based in New York and Marfa, Texas, born and raised in Germany, von Heyl is one of the most mercurial voices in painting today. With an infinitely mutable approach that uses form as a hermeneutic crowbar, she has established in her extensive oeuvre an appetite for challenge and obstacle, identifying and liquidating apparent dichotomies of grace and awkwardness, aggression and beauty, figuration and abstraction.”

For 'Interventionist Demonstration (Why-A-Duck?)', von Heyl created a 17-foot wide canvas of the same name and forty smaller paintings meant to serve as counterpoints.  

Accompanying Interventionist Demonstration (Why-A-Duck?), Corbett vs. Dempsey presented a single 1934 page of Krazy Kat, the seminal comic by George Herriman: “Today, the world walks in beauty.” 

The text fragments included in the catalog are drawn from Krazy Kat.