HUMLEBÆK.- This year's second exhibition in the series Louisiana on Paper is a presentation of a wide selection of the print works of the American artist Terry Winters from the period 1999-2014. Terry Winters (b. 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is also a painter, but it is in prints that he displays his whole potential. Few artists have explored the nooks and crannies of this medium to the same extent as Winters, and he is considered one of the most searching and prolific artists of his generation. His beautiful graphic works use patterns that recall biological forms and mathematical formulae and can be seen at Louisiana in the course of the summer.

Over the decades the paintings, drawings and graphic works of Terry Winters have almost always developed concurrently, and this has simply provided all the more stimulus to the constant interactions among these media. None of the media has seemed subordinated to the others, and none has particularly occupied the leading position. The special challenge that printmaking has represented for Winters until the present has to do with the close relationship between the technical constraints inherent in the nature of the medium, and the unexpected freedoms that it also always generates. Since the beginning the expression in his graphic universe has been about spaces and systems behind the visible world. In all the genres he masters, Terry Winters has always sought out a metaphysics of hidden forces and energies that transcends the creative process.

Winters is an original artist, and his work encompasses past, present and future in an extremely productive balance. Similarly, Winters’ creative imagination is stimulated by his own past oeuvre: older finds of images are taken up anew, reconsidered and developed in a new direction. The artist also receives important impulses by remaining open to unexpected, often random circumstances and forging new, inventive potential from them.

Around the turn of the millennium Terry Winters’ encounter with theatrical art, dance and music led to a radical new relationship with rhythm, time, motion and light as open, mobile, non-fixed elements that all influence one another. Ever since, this has left a strong mark on Terry Winters’ works.

“Invent, test and play”, the challenge that Winters posed many years ago to his endeavours as a draughtsman, can also be used as a key to his work with the print. It is striking in this context that certain principles and methods have by and large been a constant element for more than 30 years. Winters’ fondness for working with continuous series has remained a dominant feature.

Terry Winters has created the poster for the annual festival Louisiana Literature 2015. The artist can be seen and heard during the festival, on Saturday 22 August at 15:00. He will talk about his works and his strong relationship with literature.
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine and Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich.