Herbert Hamak Selected Works in thegentry.com project for contemporary art online at www.thegentry.com in collaboration with Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Linza, Managing Director Tele: (561) 301-2475 e-mail: [log in to unmask] HERBERT HAMAK Selected Works May 10 - June 30, 2000 James Linza in collaboration with Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica announces a BOX opening with an installation of paintings by artist Herbert Hamak. INTERNET [www.thegentry.com] May 5, 2000 - James Linza, of Virtual Velocities, founder of The High End Group of Earth's New Techonology Resource Yield otherwise known as THEGENTRY project for contemporary art, has teamed up with Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica to present select images of Herbert Hamak's paintings in the online space of Linza & Company Galleries called BOX. The work rings of freedom, it is not connected with any premise outside itself, and does not depend on any. Selections from Hamak's 1998 Tokyo installation, clarify and emphasize the architectural nature of the artist's vision. Ulrich Loock wrote in his piece Specific Color on Herbert Hamak "Colour, in this painting, is presented as a space-displacing, semi-transparent or almost opaque mass, with immediately tangible weight. The canvas functions explicitly as support for the colour material. Herbert Hamak feels confirmed in his practice by a sentence of Philip Otto Runge, who advised against ignoring the mass of colour." Hamak, after attempts to build up oil paint as thickly as possible on canvas, began for technical reasons to experiment with color saturated wax. The work now resonates with luminescence and mass, brilliance and architectural form. Mainly monochromatic, though often containing slight streaks or stratification, the work relates painting to solid sculptural form. Connecting with the development in Modern art whose intention is to exclude from painting everything which is not an essential part of painting itself, this work transcends and succeeds in that effort. Linza was introduced to Herbert Hamak's work by Christopher Grimes at Art Miami 2000 and immediately invited Hamak to show in BOX. This opening is the first exhibition the BOX space has done with the German artist Hamak and is being presented to coincide with Christopher Grimes Gallery's participation in Art Chicago 2000. The BOX of thegentry.com project is where an invited artist can present a single piece, a complete body of work, or a groundbreaking installation of experimental contemporary art in real time. The BOX project is http://www.thegentry.com. The Herbert Hamak exhibition runs online from May 10 - June 30, 2000. thegentry.com project for contemporary art is an Internet based e-commerce site that sustains programming in visual arts, poetry, arts news and education, and critical discourse. END # # # ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).