Faces appear caught in blinding bursts of white light or slip into dark silvery shadows. Cheek by Jowl, Bertram Hasenauer’s latest solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth presents a new series of captivating portraits rendered in graphite and coloured pencil on paper. Each image is the result of an intense and exacting process in which the facial features are slowly built up …
Faces appear caught in blinding bursts of white light or slip into dark silvery shadows. Cheek by Jowl, Bertram Hasenauer’s latest solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth presents a new series of captivating portraits rendered in graphite and coloured pencil on paper. Each image is the result of an intense and exacting process in which the facial features are slowly built up through layers to create what Hasenauer calls ‘an idea of a figure’ rather than a portrait of a specific individual. Yet, somehow, these works still feel close, intimate. How much of an image or line …
