Sonderschau Global EurAsia
ART COLOGNE 2008
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ART COLOGNE 2008
Sonderschau Global EurAsia
ART COLOGNE 2008
ART COLOGNE 2008
International Fair for modern & contemporary Art, 16th to 20th April 2008
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Around 140 renowned galleries from Germany and abroad will be on hand at ART COLOGNE 2008 (16th to 20th April 2008) to provide a comprehensive overview of the art created in the 20th and 21st centuries. Once again this year, visitors will be able to make exciting discoveries in the New Contemporaries section, where 19 recently established galleries will present attention-getting works by young artists, with the generous support of the cultural foundation SK Stiftung Kultur of the Sparkasse KölnBonn. The following galleries are the New Contemporaries for 2008: Artfinder, Bracke, Charkasi, Coma, Ferdinand-Ude, Garnatz, Hoelzner, Lange & Pult, Lethert, Lorenz, M29, Murata & Friends, Oechsner, Pfab, Program Gallery, Reimann Le Bègue, Sara Tecchia, Scharmann, and Winter
Young Artists
In his paintings, the Scottish artist Andrew Gilbert (born in 1980), who is featured by Galerie Eva Bracke (Berlin), focuses on the British colonial wars, thus playing the role of a modern historical painter. He has already attracted a great deal of attention with his sculptures suggestive of shamanism, which are made of perishable natural materials such as heads of cabbage, potatoes and carrots. Meanwhile, Olivia Berckemeyer produces wax sculptures of the great leaders of past epochs and modifies miniature equestrian statues by dripping melted wax on them. Galerie Coma (Berlin) is showcasing interesting works by Agniesza Kurant, who focuses on phenomena that defy human logic. For example, in order to create her work “Future Anterior” she worked together with the clairvoyant Krysztof Jackowski. Markus Maria Zimmermann uses cardboard, sticky tape, acrylic and Styropor to create his “Guckkästen” (Peep Shows), which can be seen at the stand of Patricia Ferdinand-Ude (Düsseldorf). His contemporary Martin Schepers creates works that keep alive the spirit of 19th-century landscape painting.
Julia Garnatz (Cologne) is sponsoring the debut appearance of the Canadian artist Janet Werner in a German art fair. This painter’s major theme is the human face. Garnatz is also showing a group of new works by the Bavarian wood sculptress Ilona Herreiner. The formal elements of these sculptures refer to the wayside shrines that borrow their images from Christian iconology. A real eye-catcher at the stand of Galerie Lange & Pult (Zurich) is the installation created by Francisco da Mata from electric guitars and pieces of distorted wood, a work that represents the artist’s response to the theme of pop culture and its icons.
Christian Lethert (Cologne) will be showing the works of Daniel Lergon, an artist whose reductionist abstract paintings on fabric and paper consciously reject the contemporary trend toward figuration. Takako Kimura, who is being presented by Murata & Friends (Berlin), takes stickers that are commercially produced by the millions and glues them together to create her cheery and colourful collages, while Yuken Teruya uses manufactured materials and found objects to create his poetic objects and installations. Mysterious shapes characterize the works of the object artist Andreas Ohlert and the sculptor Peter Senoner, which can be seen at the stand of oechsner galerie (Nuremberg), along with the mythical-magical painting of Michael Sistig. The traditional technique of reverse glass painting is used by Sven Vieweg, who is represented by Galerie Reimann Le Bègue (Düsseldorf). Within this technique, the artist has discovered the potential for unconventional modes of expression.
Interesting textures characterise the paintings of Karina Wiesniewska, who structures the surfaces of her works with acrylic paint and quartz sand. They can be seen at the stand of Galerie Sara Tecchia (New York).
“Global EurAsia”
An exhibition titled ‘Global EurAsia’ is one of the highlights of the supporting programme at this year’s ART COLOGNE (16 – 20 April). The exhibition showcases contemporary Asian and Western art in juxtaposition. It focusses on the impact of globalization in contemporary art and emphasizes where contemporary Asian and Western art interface. Dr. Renate Goldmann, one of the exhibition’s curators, has, through her curatorial work in Asia and Europe, gained considerable experience of contemporary art in both cultures. She comments: ‘Thanks to modern technology, artists now enjoy unprecedented ease of access, both practically and intellectually, to what was previously little known and remote.’ The exhibition is co-curated by Young Hee Lee from Seoul. The two curators have selected twenty-five artworks by Asian and Western artists dating from the late 1960s to the present day. Three key works are Joseph Beuys’s Eurasienstab (1967-8), video installations by his friend Nam June Paik and – underscoring the interest of Western intellectuals in China – Andy Warhol’s ‘Mao’ portraits. ‘The international outlook of these three artists is alive and living today,’ says Young Hee Lee. ‘ It’s a hot topic in current debate in countries like China, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and India.’
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