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November 6, 2013

Munich:opening exhibition;Pinakothek der Moderne: “Jeff Wall in Munich”

Wednesday, November 6th 2013 – Pinakothek der Moderne – Munich, 7pm

Opening of Jeff Wall in Munich

Curator: Inka Graeve Ingelmann

“….The exhibition, created in close cooperation with the artist, unites works in different collections in Munich for the first time. Largely dating from the 1980s and 1990s, this selection of 20 works provides a precise overview of the most important aspects in Jeff Wall’s work and includes now famous, frequently exhibited works such as “The Thinker” and “An Eviction”, as well as less well-known pictures that are seldom shown such as “Park Drive” or “Diagonal Composition no. 2″…..

http://www.pinakothek.de/en/kalender/2013-11-07/38511/jeff-wall-munich

lenders of works for this exhibition: Sammlung Chrisa Döttinger; Sammlung Goetz; Sammlung Lothar Schirmel, Rüdiger Schöttle.

Film Matinees: 11.30 am in original language with german subtitles at the Siemens-Auditorium at the Pinakothek (entrance free)

10.11.2013 The Phantom Carriage/Der Fuhrmann des Todes, 1921 / Regie: Victor Sjöstrom

08.12.13 Das Weibe band, 2009 / Regie: Michael Haneke

12.01.14 Faustrecht der Freheit, 1975 / Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

09.02.14 Old Joy, 2006/Regie: Kelly Reichert

09.03.14 The informant!/ Der informant!2009/ Regie: Stephen Soderbergh

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October 31, 2013

Salzburg_ at Villa Kanst; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac: Robert Mapplethorpe, curated by Isabelle Huppert

August 31, 2013-January 11, 2014

curated by ISABELLE HUPPERT

photo: courtesy of Ropac gallery

A lovely visit at Ropac gallery-Villa Kanst and private tour of the exhibition by the director of the gallery, Dr Arne Ehmann

“….. The gallery has invited French actress Isabelle Huppert to curate the exhibition. This is the latest in a series of exhibitions devoted to Robert Mapplethorpe that have been curated by artists such as Cindy Sherman, David Hockney, theatre director Bob Wilson and, in 2011, film director Sofia Coppola. The idea is to offer the public a different and more personal take on his work…..

...Naturally affected by beauty, Isabelle Huppert’s selection of these often unexplored images creates a poetic atmosphere of mysterious softness.

As Isabelle Huppert herself admitted, “I look at each Robert Mapplethorpe photo as if I were reading a poem. In the ones I have chosen, his way of seeing the world is pent with softness – and silence. They are silent photos. In that particular world that he made his own, everything is connected. He blurred the frontiers, merged the mobile and the immobile. His flowers are alive, almost human, and his bodies are frozen in their eternal beauty. Each photo is pure emotion. In each one of them there is a perfection of form, the delicacy and mystery of light and shade. Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer poet.” (gallery press release)

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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)

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