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January 22, 2014

Munich; preview opening at Haus der Kunst: Abraham Cruzvillegas “The Autoconstrucción Suites”

25.01.2014-25.05.14

preview with the Freunde tonight of this exciting exhibition and dinner to follow

photo credit@walker art center (published photo)

“Autocontrucción” (auto-construction) is the term Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968) uses to describe his art, the roots of which lie in the improvised construction methods and techniques of his native Mexico City. In this exhibition, the first major survey of his artistic career to be presented in Europe, Cruzvillegas combines his dynamic sculptural language with natural materials and found objects. He thus blurs the boundaries between art and craft and between industrial and manual production. For the Mexican artist, the sculptural form is a process of change, action, solidarity, and transformation. Over the past decade, Cruzvillegas has created an impressive body of work that reflects his interest in the forms and matter surrounding Ajusco, a volcanic area south of the Mexican capital…”

The Autoconstrucción Suites” is organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA, and presented by Haus der Kunst.

more at HdK site

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January 21, 2014

Munich; “Bernd Eichinger – …alles Kino (..Everything is Cinema) at the Kunstfoyer of VKB, Maximilianstrasse 53

29.10.2013-02.02.2014

Poster Exhibition Bernd Eichinger, Pentagram Design, Berlin

a fabulous exhibition at the Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern :A chronological table combined important events from his professional, private and public lives with objects, photographs and film clips.

supported by Deutche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen

Bernd Eichinger, Los Angeles, 1980s Photo: Karin Rocholl Source: Deutsche Kinemathek – Bernd Eichinger Collection

promotion photo, WERNER BEINHART, 1991

Natja Brunckhorst CHRISTIANE F. (GDR 1981) Source: Deutsche Kinemathek

Autograph "No Fear!" Nina Hoss THE GIRL ROSEMARIE (DE 1996) Source: Deutsche Kinemathek – Bernd Eichinger Collection

@photos publishes at Deutsche Kinemathek

“Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011) was Germany’s most important film producer in recent decades. Fulfilling diverse functions, he oversaw and accepted responsibility for more than 100 film and television productions. His name is linked to the Munich distribution company “Constantin Film” where he took an active role until 2006. Initially under the name “Neue Constantin,” he led the company to major successes, building one upon the other since the 1980s.

What does a film producer do? He bears financial responsibility for a film project from beginning to end: from the development of its subject through its international marketing. He is the “driving force” behind every film production, and must know all its steps and consider any risks involved. The film producer Bernd Eichinger, who studied at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), embodied this role as a creative authority with all his passion; like no other. Eichinger made films for a “wide audience” beginning with his involvement with “Constantin”, although his productions often raised controversy among German critics. Within the international film business Eichinger enjoyed great recognition.”

more at Deutsche Kiemathek

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January 16, 2014

Munich: ‘Unpainted’_media art fair_Jan 17-20

preview night; Thursday, January 16, 5 pm at PostPalast in Munich

postpalast munich unpainted media art fair 2013

Postpalast in Munich

UNPAINTED is a new art fair devoted to a special topic: media art / digital art. It will take place from Janurary 17th to 20th 2013 in Münich, Germany. UNPAINTED is focused on “art made since the first computers were switched on, means artistic practices that engage technology. Algorithmic plotter-drawings will be shown, computer animation, collages, photography, net.art, software art, interactive art, app-art, tablet-art, game art, etc.” A decision that matches the evolution of another German Art Fair : Art Cologne, which will also feature video and media art fair next year. (source)

unpainted official site

and here on digital/arti

unpainted’s director Annete Dom’s interview

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January 16, 2014

Munich;Galerie Esther Donatz; ‘Projections’

January 16-19 , 2014; approx. 85 min 1-7 pm every day

photos (video stills) courtesy of the gallery

a special four-day screening with videos by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Klaus von Bruch, Raymond Taudin Chabot, Keren Kytter, Andrea Faciu, Anna Gaskell, Niklas Goldbach, Michael Kosakowski, Anna McCarthy, Clea Stracke & Verena Seibt,Salla Tykkä

“The title ‘Projections’ not only alludes to the technical screening of films, but playfully evokes conceptions of re-presentation, self-reflection and external perception. The video program shown at the galerie Esther Donatz includes works by gallery artists and guests focusing on issues of identity. These range from lonesome processes of self-discovery to strained relationships between the individual and others as well as stereotypical role behavior within rigid sociopolitical power structures….” The curatorial selection is done by Esther Donatz and Nadine Seligmann. (highly recommended)

see address here

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January 15, 2014

Munich; preview opening at Villa Stuck; ‘RICOCHET #8’ Jan Paul Evers

16.1.2014-23.3.2014

Museum Villa Stuck

photo: courtesy of Villa Stuck and Jan Paul Evers

curator of exhibition: Sabine Schmid

“In the exhibition series RICOCHET #8 the Museum Villa Stuck shows as the eighth position of the work by Jan Paul Evers ,born in 1982 in Cologne his first museum solo exhibition. Jan Paul Evers follows with his works an extended term Photography: In his artistic work in the photographic process he captures space, creates it anew and finally banishes him on paper, the trace of an object is sometimes visible, other times is completely unrecognizable. Not the subject is in the center of Evers’ work, but the medium itself….”

“In his contemplative photographic works, all unique, Evers grasps the technical and creative possibilities of the medium of photography and takes it as a starting point to examine the photograph as well as their relationship to art. It deals not only with the history and aesthetics of photography, but also with the question of authenticity, reality and perception, with ways of seeing, objectification, as well as with the technology and the design possibilities of photography….”

more at museum press release

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January 14, 2014

Munich;Haus der Kunst; Lecture “In the Concreteness of Abstraction: Modernism and Modernization in Postwar India” by Atreyee Gupta

LECTURE 14.01.14, 7 pm

I attended an amazing lecture by Atreyee Gupta, Goethe-Institut Postdoctoral Fellow (Berkeley/München)

“Situating art at the intersections of postwar scientific developments and the modernizing aspirations of a new nation-state, this talk examines the emergence of an inter-mediatic aesthetics of abstraction in 1950s and 1960s India….

“…Attending to trans-continental exchanges made possible through the artists’ interlocutions with figures such as Le Corbusier, Lucien Hervé, and Clement Greenberg, the talk seeks to foreground the ways in which postwar modernism in the post-colony intersected with the trajectories of modernism in Western Europe and North America but also significantly complicated its universalizing claims.”….

….Atreyee Gupta’s research centers on questions of postwar modernism and the politics of inhabitation, corporeality, and sensoriality, the intersections between modern art and processes of modernization in post-colonial contexts, institutional histories of modernisms, and aesthetics as a form of postwar global cultural capital.

more here at HdK site

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January 4, 2014

Munich: revisit Pinakothek der Modern, exhibition ‘Alfred Flechtheim, art dealer of the avant-garde’

24.10.2013-26.01.2014

Alfred Flechtheim at the Léger exhibition, Berlin 1922Photo: Atelier Lily Baruch © The Royal Library Copenhagen

The gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937) was a major protagonist in the art scene at the beginning of the 20th century. His commitment to the ‘Rheinische Expressionisten’ group of artists, the French avant-garde and German Modernism, and his support of great artists such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz and Paul Klee, made him internationally famous even during his lifetime. The National Socialist regime, however, changed his life and that of his family drastically. Flechtheim had to leave Germany in October 1933. As an art dealer of Jewish extraction he was publicly slandered and, by 1935, had closed his galleries in Düsseldorf and Berlin and transferred the artworks he still possessed abroad, mostly to London, where he died in 1937 at the age of 59 as the result of an accident. His wife, Bertha, committed suicide in 1941 in the face of her imminent deportation. The remaining works of art in the flat in Berlin were confiscated.

The exceptional influence Alfred Flechtheim exerted as an art dealer representing artists defamed by the Nazis, the abrupt break in his biography and the feeling of loss this brought about, as well as the tragic fate of his family, are all reasons for this project being dedicated to his life and work. In addition, the database generated website http://www.alfredflechteim.com provides details about the works and their respective provenance, as well as background information on 234 items now found in a total of 15 different museum collections taking part in this project.

….works by Max Beckmann, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Karl Hofer, Ernst Barlach, at Pinakothek der Moderne may be seen with info point and iPad-terminals.

more at Pinakothek der Moderne

and

Alfred Flechtheim site

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January 3, 2014

Munich, revisit Villa Stuck “In the Temple of the Self The Artist’s Residence as a Total Work of Art – Europe and America 1800-1948”

21.11.2013-2.3.2014

curated by Margot Th. Brandlhuber

Museum Villa Stuck

On November 21st, the museum Villa Stuck opened _as an anniversary project – the exhibition »In the Temple of the Self: The Artist’s Residence as a Total Work of Art.« An exemplary artist’s residence, the Stuck villa is not just the supreme expression of »artist prince« Franz von Stuck’s life-as-total-work-of-art, but also his most splendid artwork. It is the culmination of his aspirations for a unification of all the arts…..

….The exhibition presents both famous existing artist’s residences and projects that, though nowadays lost, destroyed and forgotten, were uniquely important in their time and continue to exude a fascinating aura to this very day. Selected works by the artists that are closely linked to their residences, as well as photographs, drawings and models, convey vivid impressions of the blending of art and life and the harmony of the arts that is reflected in the historical term of the gesamtkunstwerk as it was understood by Richard Wagner…..”

Among the artist’s residences included are the John Soane’s Museum in London, the Red House of William Morris in Bexleyheath, the Tiffany House of Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York City, Mortimer Menpes’s residence in London, the villa of Fernand Khnopff in Brussels, Kurt Schwitters’s MERZbau in Hanover, the house of Konstantin Melnikov in Moscow, Theo van Doesburg’s maison in Meudon-Val-Fleury near Paris and the residence of Max Ernst in Sedona, Arizona.

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January 2, 2014

Munich: Lenbachhaus (STÄDTISCHE GALERIE IM LENBACHHAUS UND KUNSTBAU MÜNCHEN) revisit “Gerhard Richter “Atlas Mikromega”

at Kunstbau

10.23.2013-2.9.2014

richter_micromega_presse17_quer

photo: courtesy of Lenbachhaus (published photo)

“The title MICROMEGA (Greek for smalllarge) is meant to express this salient aspect of the ATLAS as a work of art. It refers to Voltaire’s “Micromégas: A Philosophical History,” a short story published in 1752 that speculates about the relative dimensions of reality.”

…In the early 1960s, Gerhard Richter starts collecting for his ATLAS thousands of photographs, newspaper clippings, sketches, and collages, which he groups based on formal criteria as well as content. He then consolidates several—sometimes dozens—of the resulting plates into blocks of imagery.

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January 1, 2014

Kochel am See, Bavaria,Franz Marc Museum, “1913: Pictures before the Apocalypse”

13.10.2013-19.1.2014

1913: Pictures before the Apocalypse

“The work of Franz Marc and many of his contemporaries before World War I is marked by a foreboding of the catastrophe ahead. In retrospect, numerous indications of the impending apocalypse can be detected. From a contemporary point of view, this period was however also influenced by events that do not seem to have any connection with the war…..”

Ludwig Meidner, Straße bei Nacht II, 1913 August Macke, Vor dem Hutladen, 1913

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