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Two paintings of airplanes silhouetted by the sun are the first and last images in LA painter Friedrich Kunath<\/a>\u2019s solo show at Pace Gallery<\/a>, suggesting a brief layover on an ongoing journey.\u00a0 In between, romantic, dramatically lit landscapes include a huge breaking wave on a beach, a misty highway running through forest and a country road through fall foliage.\u00a0 Explaining in a video that his paintings \u2018create permission to feel,\u2019 Kunath\u2019s pretty scenes contain short, evocative text quotes from music or other sources that speak to complicated interpersonal relationships.\u00a0 Behind the large breaking wave, the text \u2018If it comes, let it. If it goes, let it.\u2019 appears in purplish clouds on the horizon while here, a double exposure of a sunrise or sunset includes the phrase \u2018You told that joke twice.\u2019 (On view in Chelsea through Dec 20th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Friedrich Kunath, You Told That Joke Twice, oil on canvas, 96 x 72 x 1 \u00bd inches, 2024-2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Friedrich Kunath, (detail) You Told That Joke Twice, oil on canvas, 96 x 72 x 1 \u00bd inches, 2024-2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two paintings of airplanes silhouetted by the sun are the first and last images in LA painter Friedrich Kunath\u2019s solo show at Pace Gallery, suggesting a brief layover on an ongoing journey.\u00a0 In between, romantic, dramatically lit landscapes include a huge breaking wave on a beach, a misty highway running through forest and a country … <\/p>\n

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