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November 21, 2013

New York; visit Blain/Di Donna gallery;DADA & surrealist objects

New York; an amazing exhibition at Blain/Di Donna gallery .. visit on november 21,2013

Blain /Di Donna Gallery, New York

“……The exhibition presents a retrospective overview of all aspects of this subject, and encompasses a full selection of works by every serious creator of objects from both the Dada and Surrealist groups. Chronologically, this exploration begins with Marcel Duchamp, whose invention of the readymade in 1913 gave birth to the separation of foundor handmade objects from the more limited world of sculpture, usually confined to plaster, bronze, marble and occasionally carved wood that had previously represented, exclusively, in the realm of the third dimension in art..”

November 9, 2013

Munich; Barbara Gross Galerie;Carlos Garaicoa

11.9.2013-January 17, 2014

Artist talk
Carlos Garaicoa and Okwui Enwezor,
Director Haus der Kunst München
Saturday, November 9, 2013, 6 pm

Carlos Garaicoa, Wer im Glashaus sitzt...

Carlos Garaicoa casts a critical eye upon the connections among architecture, ideology, and power structures.
The question of the guilt and innocence of architectural forms serves as a parentheses for the works that Garaicoa has created for the exhibition in Munich. At the center of the show are two iconic buildings, whose symbolic language is exposed by the artist’s deliberate shifts in size and material: the German Federal Bank headquarters in Frankfurt and the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

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October 29, 2013

Munich; opening at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle; “Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky”

29.10.2013-01.02.2014

photo; courtesy of the gallery

An amazing, powerful and beautiful show in this joint exhibition..fantastic pieces!

“…While the idea for such a project – based on mutual appreciation and respect – was conceived a great many years ago, it is not until now that these two exceptional exponents of contemporary photography have explicitly undertaken to show their works in a joint exhibition.”…… (gallery press release)