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Helwaser Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo show of German Pop Art pioneer Werner Berges (b. 1941, Cloppenburg, Germany; d. 2017, Schallstadt, Germany).

For this significant occasion, the gallery will present Chromatic Euphorias, a suite of works created during the late 1960s to the early 1970s in vibrant, post-war Berlin. As media-saturated optimism fueled economic recovery, Berges infused these works on paper and acrylic on canvas with utopian liberation of the female form. Living in Berlin during the post-war period, Berges’ celebratory portraits of women captured new …