Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Helmut Federle Helmut Federle, Basics on Composition C (April at Kamikochi), 2019. Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (40 x 50 cm). Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York. NEW YORK, NY .-Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Helmut Federle entitled, Basics on Composition at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Helmut Federle has developed a body of work over four decades that is characterized by both painterly and geometric imagery rooted in spirituality, symbolism, and a closeness to nature. He engages in the tradition of geometric abstraction, renewing and expanding it, exploring the relationship between figure and ground, between order and disorder, between movement and stillness. Federle began investigating the reclining H in 1979 while living in New York, using the first letter of his first name as its basic, now iconic, form. Subsequently in 1992 and 1993 he primarily created the series entitled, Basics on Composition and he has now resumed the series since 2019. The exhibition will survey works from the series spanning from 1992 to 2020.