Tag: Berlin
YARISAL & KUBLITZ
Thomas Kratz
Michael Schmidt
Galerie Nordenhake is very pleased to announce Michael Schmidt’s upcoming retrospective exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and the artist’s participation in the 2010 Berlin Biennale.
Since 1965, Schmidt has created a distinctive body of work, including such seminal series as “Waffenruhe” (Ceasefire), “EIN-HEIT” (U-NI-TY), “Berlin nach 1945” (Berlin After 1945), “Frauen,” (Women), “Stadtbilder” (Berlin – Urban Images), and “Irgendwo” (Somewhere). The exhibition at Haus der Kunst presents Schmidt’s major photographic works from the past four decades, along with previously unpublished photographs from the 1980s, newly edited series, and recent works, including a series of seascapes. For the Haus der Kunst presentation, Schmidt will devise idiosyncratic installations specifically for the venue’s architecture. An artist’s book of the series “89-90,” which previously only existed as artist proofs, will accompany the exhibtion.
Schmidt’s series “Frauen” has been featured as the first artistic contribution to the 6th Berlin Biennale. The series, showing singular portraits of clothed and nude women, is currently visible in public posters throughout Berlin and will remain on view for the duration of the Biennale.
Tobias Köbsch
Sayre Gomez
Kavi Gupta Gallery Berlin is proud to present the European debut exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Sayre Gomez. Included in the exhibition is the artist’s new video Fog (2010), five small abstract paintings, three graphite drawings executed on blue Pantone paper, and a stereo covered in blue flocking playing raw recordings made outside the artist’s studio. This exhibition continues Gomez’s investigations into the ways in which meanings are contextualized and disseminated. Using the notion of self-expression as an extremely populous example of this, viewers are presented with a disparate series of objects that embrace ideological contradictions and play with one’s assumptions. The works included in the exhibition employ the use of a single color to foreground this dialogue, and to present the art object as a self-evident object, one that endures as it is balances between the unadulterated description of an artist’s interiority and the often tedious explanatory landscapes of the external world.
Sayre Gomez (b. Chicago, 1982) holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005) and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2008). He will be included in the upcoming exhibition California Dreamin’ curated by Fred Hoffman as part of Arte Portugal 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. Recent solo exhibitions include Self Expression at Fourteen 30 Contemporary in Portland, Painting at 2nd Cannons in Los Angeles, and Formal Exercise at Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include Other Peoples Projects at White Columns in New York and Awful Parenthesis curated by Aram Moshayedi at Cirrus in Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
