Friedrich Kunath.Friedrich Kunath lives and works in Cologne. His solo exhibition "I Have Always Been Here Before" opened in March at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . His work may also be seen in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of at Andrea Rosen Gallery Andrea Rosen Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Chelsea, New York. The gallery opened in January 1990 with an exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Since then it has shown many of the most important modern and contemporary artists such as: and in Cologne at BQ, where his next show is planned for January 2007. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 ANDREW KERR This Glaswegian artist previously made sculptures that, in their crudity and rawness, clearly displayed the process of their own creation (and the artist's intensive search for the meaning behind them). Recently, however, Kerr has turned to painting, even while maintaining his artistic approach: His canvases, like his sculptures, follow no consistent praxis, seeming instead to be made for the sake of learning and of working through the fear of making. This is the major struggle, I believe, of most artists, and here results in something truly fantastic: a real painting. 2 SILVER JEWS Silver Jews are an American indie rock group, formed in 1989 by writer David Berman along with Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. Sometimes regarded as a Pavement side project (Pavement drummer Steve West has also been a member of the band), in fact "The Joos" were After fourteen years making music, the Silver Jews, led by poet-singer David Berman David Berman is the name of four different people:
3 ANDREAS SCHULZE, ICH See Intel Hub Architecture. KAUFE NICHTS (I BUY NOTHING), 2004 This painting--depicting objects arranged on a flea-market table to spell out the words of its own title--was the only one in Schulze's 2004 exhibition at Galerie Spruth Magers in Cologne. Large, glowing, floor-lamp sculptures made with colorful fabrics stood like spectators in front of the picture, shedding light on the artist's statement An artist's statement is a brief text composed by an artist and intended to explain, justify, and contextualize his or her body of work. Artists often have a short (50-100 word) and a long (500-1000 word) version of the same statement, and they may maintain and revise these , which, in a commercial-gallery context, seemed blunt and antagonistic. Eventually donated by Schulze to Cologne's Museum Ludwig Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from PopArt, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It also features many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. , the work followed a course appropriate to its message. 4 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Madison County is the name of twenty counties in the United States, named after President James Madison:
5 HIGHLAND GARDENS HOTEL, LOS ANGELES Nestled in the Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to , this cozy and charmingly aged hotel feels like your home away from home. Old, worn-out brown carpets, faded paint on the roofs, lush gardens, and en suite kitchens comfortably take you back to 1969, when you could have spied Joni Mitchell beating David Crosby at Ping-Pong by the pool. To quote David Berman again, "It was like I caught Hollywood sleeping / sleep without the dream." 6 MARCEL BROODTHAERS, INTERVIEW WITH A CAT In 1970, in his roving conceptual museum, then located in a basement in Dusseldorf, Broodthaers interviewed a cat about such esoteric topics as visual and market trends in contemporary art. Thirty-three years later, I went to an animal shelter "Dog Pound" redirects here. For the rap group, see Tha Dogg Pound. An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats. to take home my own feline, whom I now know as Harald. 7 WILLIAM N. COPLEY, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DEALER Published in German by Walther Konig in 1998, this book is a romantic account of earlier days in art dealing. It tells the story of a layman (Copley) opening a gallery in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. in 1947, driven by genuine curiosity and a steady will. During the six-month life of his project, Copley made only two sales. Success is perhaps relative, however: "The great thing about having a gallery is living in rooms with pictures," Copley explains. "Pictures go through the skin by osmosis osmosis (ŏzmō`sĭs), transfer of a liquid solvent through a semipermeable membrane that does not allow dissolved solids (solutes) to pass. Osmosis refers only to transfer of solvent; transfer of solute is called dialysis. . Eyes have nothing to do with it." Such power is easy to imagine, since his space featured a lineup--Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Joseph Cornell--that today seems unreal. 8 GEORGE BRECHT, "EVENTS: A HETEROSPECTIVE" I must have visited this gift of a show, at Cologne's Museum Ludwig, at least four times. It is rare to enter an exhibition with little expectation and immediately realize you are seeing something of historical importance. Throughout his career, Brecht has introduced many incredible innovations that, for another artist, would suffice for a life's work. Most significant is his ability to leave his works open to chance, resulting here in an exhibition space that appeared cluttered, though the show's conceptual foundation remained intact. The exhibition in every way faithfully reflected the artist's attitude toward his own work; the highly detailed catalogue likewise reflected the exhibition. 9 JOHN PHILLIPS, JOHN, THE WOLFKING OF L.A., 1970 After having fronted the Mamas and the Papas throughout the '60s, Phillips released his first solo record, a concept album based loosely on the wild Malibu/Topanga Canyon scene of the time. These country-tinged tunes, often crafted like short stories set to music, have a beachy feel that stays with you long after the record ends. Permeating the music is a feeling of dissipation and lassitude lassitude /las·si·tude/ (las´i-tldbomacd) weakness; exhaustion. las·si·tude n. A state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness. , a melancholy that suggests the musician foresaw his imminent decline. 10 WALTHER KONIG BOOKSHOP, COLOGNE Given the book industry's waning under the pressures of mass-media culture, I have to again acknowledge Walther Konig, whose store--which holds a matchless stock of publications on art, architecture, photography, and the like--continues to be a necessary stop for visitors to Cologne. For me, as an artist living in Cologne, it's even more than a store--it's my daily library. An ever-changing supply of words and images, Konig's shop is like school without the obligations, with shelves bearing the weight of centuries of labor by artists and intellectuals. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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