Beate Reifenscheid

Arman

Urs Roeber

Inspired by the work of Kurt Schwitters, which he saw in Paris in 1954, Arman began experimenting with printmaking during the 1950s, and prints and other works on paper have been an essential part of his oeuvre since then. This is the first extensive retrospective and documentation of his works on paper, and as such, will be an essential publication on the artist's work.

Arman: Works on Paper

Katalog Zur Ausstellung Im Ludwigmuseum Koblenz 2022

Yoon-Hee. Non Finito

Gottfried Helnwein has long been a recognized figure on the world art scene and more than ever his darkly visionary portrayals of pain, abuse and torture are proving to be true. Helnwein transfers these on the basis of an extensive pictorial knowledge that draws in particular on European Romanticism, but at the same time seamlessly transitions to the propaganda machinery of the Nazi dictatorship and the harmless duck cosmos of the famous Disney cartoonist Carl Barks.0The trivial breaks the noble and knocks the supposedly adorable off its pedestal. Helnwein proves to be a clever strategist here, and a master of quoting and referencing unfamiliar points of view. 00Exhibition: Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany (11.04.-26.05.2021) / Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy (June - July 2021).

Sleep of Reason

Helnwein

Wang Xiaosong, Xiao Hui Wang

Introspection

Qi Yang

Sabine Fehlemann

The Chinese-born, artist Qi Yang, currently based in Germany, draws on the suspension between these two cultures in his art. At once earthy and delicate, as when he hangs slabs of stone from a seemingly flimsy brace, the recent work displayed here encompasses installation, sculpture, painting, photography and video.

Beyond the Heaven

Thomas Hirsch

Landscapes in a Dialogue between Painting and Photography At first glance, Stephan Kaluza's (b. 1964, Bad Iburg; lives and works in Duesseldorf) photorealist paintings might be still lifes, portraits of pristine nature. Yet they actually show battlefields and other scenes of past horrors. The idyll in his pictures positively appeals to our vigilance to resist the impression of profound peace. The same ambiguity lies at the heart of the photographs of Dieter Nuhr (b. 1960, Wesel; lives and works in Ratingen). Nuhr, who is also widely known as a comedian, has contributed pictures that are carefully focused renditions of seemingly serendipitous discoveries from his travels in Nepal, Bolivia, India, and Sudan. In their timelessness, Nuhr's photographs are akin to the locales in Kaluza's works, which, disburdened of the heavy weight of their histories, reemerge as straightforward natural landscapes. The lavishly illustrated two-volume edition presents the fruits of a collaboration between two artists united by their shared preoccupation with the dialectic of ephemerality and permanence.

Transit

Stephan Kaluza / Dieter Nuhr

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