The facelessness of the protagonists in Josef Zekoff’ s paintings is one of their most distinctive features. From emblematic labyrinths – he does also paint ornaments and maps – to drawn stick figures, the in-bet...Loe edasi...
The relationship between mother and child, or between caretaker and infant, has traditionally been represented as a symbiotic fusion within visual art; see the images of virgin and child by Raphael, for example. Inspired by the English psychoanalyst...Loe edasi...
The facelessness of the protagonists in Josef Zekoff’ s paintings is one of their most distinctive features. From emblematic labyrinths – he does also paint ornaments and maps – to drawn stick figures, the in-bet...Loe edasi...
In his new paintings, Strassburger seems to abandon abstraction in favor of the human body, one of the main interests of figurative art. And yet the images show bodies under water, in the shower and in the swimming pool, slowly blurring the boundary...Loe edasi...
Pop-AntizipationenChrista Dichgans lebte in einer Männerwelt, zunächst mit Karl Horst Hödicke verheiratet, folgte ihm 1972 der renommierte Galerist Rudolf Springer. Sie war mit Markus Lüpertz und A. R. Penck befreundet und assistierte Georg ......Loe edasi...
»Ich muß Sie malen! Ich muß!«Das sagte Otto Dix zu Sylvia von Harden, als er ihr auf der Straße begegnete. »Sie repräsentieren eine ganze Zeitepoche!« Die »Neue Frau« der 1920er Jahre hatte ihren Schrank von den schweren Kleidern befreit, die die ......Loe edasi...
Wenn die Blase platzt»Journée dun G.I.«, ist die dritte Einzelausstellung von Ulrike Ottinger bei Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin und zeigt Gemälde und Serigraphien aus den 1960er Jahren. Ulrike Ottingers zumeist mehrteiligen oder in mehrere ......Loe edasi...
In his new paintings Nick Goss seems to aim at the modus of memory; how at any given time it necessarily contains more than one place, more than one logic. On the other hand it’s easy to read Goss’s works within the logic of the modernist collage, or...Loe edasi...
In Spichtig&;s work a similar push and pull between attachment and repellence produces a certain form of iconicity, but one that does not ask for devotion. You recognise something about the pictures, and want to be in proximity to this som...Loe edasi...
Absence is a recurring theme in Sopie Reinhold’s work: the left out, unsaid, uninvited. Basic rules of abstraction. To not give it all away. This constraint sets the tone, her underlying mood. Maybe it’s a pattern. It creates a place apart from langu...Loe edasi...
Has Werner Buettners world of images indeed grown funnier, more colorful, or should one, following Kristian Vistrup Madsens observations, consider it to be invariably gloomy and oppressive? The latter certainly applies to a work such as...Loe edasi...
There is a remarkable painting in the Picasso room at Kunstmuseum in Basel: a full-length portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire with his muse, Marie Laurencin. It was Henri Rousseau who painted this wonderful picture. Only I had remembere...Loe edasi...
In the age of social media, Henning Strassburger, who studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 2006 to 2009, explores new perspectives, new approaches regarding habitus, and new formal language rules. In addition to the strong charisma that pop...Loe edasi...
