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Alison M. Gingeras

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Værker af Alison M. Gingeras

Guy Bourdin (2006) 53 eksemplarer
John Currin (2020) 24 eksemplarer
Jeff Koons (2001) 13 eksemplarer
New Images of Man 4 eksemplarer
My Name Is Maryan (2023) 3 eksemplarer

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"Dear Painter, Paint Me …" shows how today’s realistic painting presents itself: provocative, critical, ironic, and emotive. Since the early 20th century, the advocates of an abstract, conceptual modernity have contested the validity of realistic modes of representation as politically and aesthetically reactionary. Yet, there have always been artists defying this maxim. The exhibition opens with the erotically charged nudes Francis Picabia painted after pictures in magazines in the 1940s. "Dear Painter, Paint Me …" presents 17 international artists who, working in his wake, have ventured to explore the "figurative" from a mostly conceptual, media-filtered point of view. The loose genealogy of post-war realistic painting spans from Bernard Buffet, Alex Katz, Sigmar Polke, and Martin Kippenberger to the present New York scene and artists like John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, and Kurt Kauper, as well as works by such artists as Luc Tuymans and Neo Rauch. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration between the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.

The exhibition "Dear Painter, Paint Me …" borrows its title from Martin Kippenberger’s polemic 1981 series for which the artist commissioned a professional poster painter for one year to translate photographs selected by him into large-format pictures. This subtle play with the role of the painter illustrates how ambiguous, deceptive, and pliable pictures have become in today’s mass media world. Kippenberger’s skeptical radical view of the concept of authenticity in realistic painting outlines an attitude which the artists of this exhibition share.

Highlighting 18 artistic positions from 1940 until today, "Dear Painter, Paint Me …" fathoms the role and range of figurative painting. The exhibition begins with the heydays of doubting realistic modes of representation, the early years of European fascism. Intense correspondences between the members of the Frankfurt School driven into exile in the mid-thirties initiated a debate which established an opposition between the possibilities of a critical realism and the project of modernity. It was in those days that Francis Picabia, undoubtedly a protagonist of the avant-garde, began to paint colorful realistic pictures with a kitschy tenor, using erotic magazines such as "Mon Paris" and "Paris Sex Appeal" as his source. Picabia’s bent for an apparently anti-modernist figurative art of portrayal in the academic style was considered an affront.

With these pictures as a starting-point, the exhibition continues with a loose sequence of four other historical positions, each of which marks a radical attitude of the post-war era. All of them go to prove that a leaning towards figurative painting does not necessarily imply a retreat to traditional forms of realistic depiction.

The second part of the presentation following Picabia’s "Nudes" (1940-3) spans from a group of austere nudes, portraits, and self-portraits by Bernard Buffet (1949-65) which, aimed against the academism of the Ecole de Paris, center on "academic" subjects, and four crucial pictures by Sigmar Polke (from the early 60s) for "the capitalist realism" that parody the alienation effect of the consumer culture to a selection of large-format group portraits by Alex Katz (from the 70s), pictures revealing the filter of the distanced view of sociological cinema, and a presentation of works by Martin Kippenberger (from the 80s) that illustrate the artist’s refusal to see himself categorized as belonging to a specific artistic or political group.

These historical positions lead to thirteen other artists’ works from the past decade’s scene. Their views are characterized by a digestion of the historical positions’ formal and conceptual strategies. All of them radically abandon the traditional art of portrayal by making pictures of the human subject the starting-point of their approach. The artists almost never depart from the real subject as their model but rather rely on photographs, films, TV pictures, the press, and the canon of art history or base their constructions on fictitious figures of the prevailing visual and social codes. The artists assembled in the show are far from believing in the often proclaimed impending death of figurative painting but consider the figurative as a source of freedom in view of the dogmas of history. "Dear Painter, Paint Me …" demonstrates that figurative painting is not only full of vitality but may also convey conceptual contents and be a source of visual pleasure at the same time.
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petervanbeveren | Mar 24, 2024 |
On the surreal figuration of an influential postwar artist, covering four decades of paintings, sculptures, drawings and film

Working in the wake of postwar trauma and traversing the European and American avant-gardes, the prolific Polish-born painter Maryan (né Pinchas Burstein, 1927–77) created a thrilling post-expressionist vocabulary that has never seemed so prescient.
My Name Is Maryan explores the totality of Maryan’s career, including how his work was impacted by his firsthand experiences of the Holocaust; his dialogue with peers, from CoBrA artists such as Constant, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky to his American circle of artists, particularly H.C. Westermann, June Leaf and Leon Golub; his black-and-white works of the 1950s; and a recreation of his studio at the Chelsea Hotel, where he made his final works in the 1970s.
Maryan’s historically important single-figure Personnage paintings―highly influential on artists such as Caroll Dunham and Eddie Martinez, and first shown in Paris in 1960―are included, recreating the bulk of that exhibition for the first time.
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petervanbeveren | Jun 15, 2023 |
A revealing look at the evolution of male iconography in the work of one of the foremost painters of his generation.

Since raising the ire of the early-1990s arts establishment with his deliberately provocative portrayals of women, John Currin has been best known for his brazen, militantly incorrect female iconography. Yet Currin has represented a range of masculine identities throughout his career as well.

This volume is the first to focus exclusively on this aspect of his work, examining the evolution of his equally provocative depictions of men. It ranges from little-known early works on paper and a series of kitschy paintings of men with beards to signature eccentric figures such as the elderly reader in the painting 2070 (2005) and his more baroque genre scenes featuring male couples. Published to accompany the exhibition John Currin: My Life as a Man at the Dallas Contemporary, it offers a revealing new assessment of Currin's pictorial examinations of sexual politics… (mere)
 
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petervanbeveren | Jan 14, 2021 |
This definitive book on the renowned postwar avant-garde artistic movement offers a comprehensive insight into Cobra’s history and achievements, and explores its lasting influences on contemporary art. The European artistic collective known as Cobra was born in the wake of World War II’s devastating events, its name an acronym for the native cities of its founders: Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Brussels. The influential group of painters and sculptors had a tremendous impact on the development of European Abstract Expressionism, and contemporary art in general. Cobra was arguably the last avant-garde movement of the 20th century. Moving chronologically, this book explores the years leading up to Cobra’s formation, charts its complex expansion over a decade, and illuminates how the movement helped shape the trajectory of contemporary art today. Thoughtfully integrated among the numerous images, many presented as full-page color illustrations, are essays that probe the ideological hallmarks that shaped the group as a whole: its rejection of rational constraints; a focus on play and youthfulness; and its embrace of immediacy, particularly in the form of “action” paintings. In addition, comprehensive biographies of the artists illuminate crucial aspects of each individual’s journey, helping to expand readers’ understanding of Europe’s socio-political and theoretical climate.… (mere)
 
Markeret
petervanbeveren | Dec 8, 2019 |

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