Hindsight

Sunday, January 24, 2010

TULLMAN COLLECTION ARTIST LORA FOSBERG IN NEW SHOW IN COPENHAGEN

TULLMAN COLLECTION ARTIST ALYSSA MONKS IN TWO NEW SHOWS

Intimacy! Bathing in art

The Museum of Art at Ahlen has created this discerning exhibition to explore the subject of "Bathing" and find out more about historical developments, connotations of content, and - above all - for artistic reflection.

Water is seen as an element of regeneration and cleansing, refreshing and revitalising. The bathroom is visited as a place of withdrawal and relaxation. At the same time, though, it is also a place where we are particularly vulnerable: we encounter ourselves, naked and exposed, our ideals and desires, our physical transience. For artists, the bathroom is designed as an exciting and especially intimate room that is associated with biblical and mythological stories and which today, in our age of extreme "body awareness", has a unique position in the artistic vision.

This comprehensive exhibition contains 143 works by 92 artists ranging from the late Middle Ages to the present. The artefacts include oil paintings, drawings, print graphics, sculptures, photographs, videos, and complete installation.

They include contributions by Stephan Balkenhol, Max Beckmann, Hans Sebald Beham, Joseph Beuys, Karl Bohrmann, Pierre Bonnard, Fernando Botero, Luise Bourgois, Gustave Caillebotte, William N. Copley, Gregory Crewdson, Edgar Degas, Albrecht Dürer, Eric Fischl, Xenia Hausner, David Hockney, Mary Kelly, In Sook Kim, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Wihelm Lehmbruck, Jules Migonney, Alyssa Monks, Bettina Rheims, Saul Steinberg, Norbert Tadeusz, Toyokuni Utagawa, Félix Vallotton, Bill Viola and Qingsong Wang.

The loans have been made by major public collections and important private collections in Germany, Switzerland, France, the UK, Finland and the USA. Important loans include the copper engraved cabinet – State Museums of Berlin, the State Library of Berlin, the Kunsthalle Bremen – copper engraved cabinet , the Kirchner Museum of Davos, the foundation museum kunst palast of Düsseldorf, the Städel Museum of Frankfurt, the Association des Amis du Petit Palais Geneva, the Hamburg Museum of Art and Trade, the Museum Schloss Moyland of Kleve, the British Council Collection London, the Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, the Centraal Museum of Utrecht, the Musée National des Châteaux des Versailles et de Trianon, and the Belvedere of Vienna as well as numerous other galleries and private collections both in Germany and abroad.

The exhibition is supported by a comprehensive bilingual catalogue (German/English) with contributions on the history of culture and art, excursions into the great bathing cultures of Japan and the Orient; extensive background information on the bathing rituals of the great monotheistic religions, the bathroom as the "scene of the crime" in films, and on today's spa culture.

The exhibition is curated by Dr. Martina Padberg, Bonn.

TULLMAN COLLECTION ARTIST STEFANIE GUTHEIL IN NEW SHOW AT MIKE WEISS GALLERY IN NEW YORK

Mike Weiss Gallery is extremely proud to present our current exhibition featuring new paintings by German artist Stefanie Gutheil.

The near thirty year old reverts to the painterly aesthetic of the Expressionists; her compositions and brushstrokes capturing an introspective chaos. She creates a duality juxtaposing deeply interior self contemplation with loud, busy and enormous canvas. She materializes the unimaginable, or at least unacknowledged, and then pulls back the curtains to present a theater of the mind, hence the exhibition’s title, Kopftheater (roughly translating to head theater).

Born and raised in a small conservative town in southwest Germany, Stefanie moved to Berlin ten years ago and since that time has witnessed the growth of Berlin’s contemporary art scene; an international mish-mash of artists converging on the city after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her monsters and creatures, both miniature and giant, are gross caricatures of the people in her daily life; artists, musicians, dancers, poets and revelers in the city of Berlin.

Tucked into the center of the city’s nightlife pocket, the scene around the artist’s studio provides the visual fodder for what becomes her larger than life imagery.

FLASHPOINT ACADEMY PRODUCTION IN ACTION SHOW "AT THE MART" FEATURED ON NBC NEWS AND WEBSITE

WATCH THE STORY THAT LEEANN TROTTER DID FOR NBC-TV ON THE FLASHPOINT ACADEMY "AT THE MART" PRODUCTION

LINK TO VIDEO:http://www.nbcchicago.com/around-town/events/Flashpoint_s__In_the_Mart__Show_Chicago.html

Saturday, January 23, 2010

FLASHPOINT ACADEMY PRODUCTION IN ACTION SHOW "AT THE MART" WRAPS WITH NBC COVERAGE

SEE THE SLIDE SHOW ON THE NBC.COM SITE AT:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Flashpoint-Creates-SNL-Style-Show-second-city-rhymefest-82510647.html

OR JUST CLICK ON THE TITLE TO THIS POST.