Helmut Federle

Ferner D (For Robert Frost) . 2012

+ Peter Blum

Helmut Federle’s latest body of work, The Ferner Paintings, created in 2012 and 2013 all represent one form: the circle. The paintings, each measuring 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches (50 x 40 cm), are executed using vegetable oil to stain the raw sand colored linen, resulting in muted rings of various widths and values hovering slightly above the center of each canvas...
The word Ferner has a threefold meaning in German: fern means “far”; ferner means “in the future,” or “furthermore,” and in Austria and southern Germany ferner is a term for “glacier.”
Peter Blum

Ferner G . 2012

Ferner J (Der Knochen) . 2013

Ferner M . 2013