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Blum & Poe : Friedrich Kunath : EMOH - 24 Oct 2008 to 6 Dec 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Friedrich Kunath, Installation View, EMOH at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Courtesy of the Artist, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles and BQ Gallery, Cologne Photo Credit: Heather Rasmussen |
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Friedrich Kunath EMOH October 24 � December 6, 2008 Opening reception: Friday, October 24th, 6 � 8 pm Blum & Poe is please to announce our third solo exhibition of Friedrich Kunath. The exhibition will present painting, sculpture, and photography. Kunath�s new body of work, partly inspired by his move this year from Cologne to Los Angeles, uses ambitious scale, giving his pieces a theatrical quality, while they remain grounded by their fundamental emotional import. In the paintings, appropriated silkscreened imagery contrasts and cavorts with striking washes of psychedelic stains, all the while playing with personal place and belongingness. His sculptures also combine and corrupt iconic depictions of home and their civilizing �baggage� with a sense of wild wanderlust and a grasping for the unattainable. The sculptures include an oversized cartoonish arm reaching into the gallery through the roof, as it offers a rainbow made of seven upholstery fabrics in its, inexplicably, four-fingered hand. A series of ceramic caricature bats hover with the contents of their pockets emptied and strewn about the floor beneath them. A large snail of cast bronze lumbers along contemplatively with a toy model of a modernist architectural house on its back. Another sculpture of a miniature house holds several of the artist�s personal possessions like totems for comfort and familiarity, while holes in its roof and a forever spinning weather vane belie any feeling of security. Additionally, there will be two sculptures comprised of small thrift store and yard sale objects attached to pedestals hanging, and watching, from the ceiling. This simple spatial disorientation beckons a larger mental, perspectival transformation, and like the rest of the works builds a place for �insides� and �outsides� to blend with the romantic search for beauty and purity in ironies, both grand and humble. In 2008 Friedrich Kunath had a solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, CO and was included in the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA. A selection of other recent exhibition venues include the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Tate Modern, London, UK; Museum F�r Moderne Kunst Frankfurt Am Main, Germany; Maggazzino d�arte moderna, Rome, Italy, BQ Gallery, Cologne; and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. In 2009, Friedrich will have an exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover, Germany. Kunath was born Chemnitz, Germany and was awarded both the Peter Mertes Stipendium, Kunstverein Bonn, Germany in 2001 and Arbeitsstipendium der J�rgen Ponto � Stiftlung, Frankfurt AM Main, Germany in 2005. FRIEDRICH KUNATH Born: Chemnitz, Germany, 1974 Education: Peter Mertes Stipendium, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 2001 Arbeitsstipendium der J�rgen Ponto-Stiftlung, Frankurt am Main, 2005 Lives and works in Cologne, Germany One-Person Exhibitions 2008 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 2007 Twilight, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Kunst aus NRW in der ehemaligen Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimunster BQ, Cologne, Germany 2006 I have always been here before, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY 2004 We were the one thing in the galaxy God didn�t have his eyes on, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Our endless numbered days, BQ, Cologne, Germany 2003 We are not as far west as we suppose we are, The Bakery/ Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Statements, Art I34I Basel, Basel, Switzerland (under the auspice of BQ gallery) 2002 Welcome Home Steve Curry, BQ, Cologne, Germany 2001 Bonner Kunstverein, Peter Mertes Stipendium (with Thea Djordjadze), Bonn, Germany Friedrich Kunath, Videos, CHAUSSE 37, Berlin, Germany 2000 One day it will all make sense, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland (weekend-show with Dirk Bell) 1998 Why are my friends such finks, BQ, Cologne, Germany (with Dirk Bell) Group Exhibitions 2008 The Leisure Suite, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, (Curated by Martin Basher) Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Ary, Pittsburgh, PA 2007 Blind Date, Magazzino d�arte moderna, Rome, Italy Learn to read, Tate Modern, London Verwendungsnachweis, Stipendiaten der Jurgen Ponto-Stiftung 2003-2006, MMK Frankfurt am Main 2006 Bonanza, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Karola Grasslin) Nothing but pleasure, BAWAG Foundation, Wein Spooky, Het Gebouw, Utrecht Esquidor en el fondo de un pozo, Fundacci�n/ Colecci�n Jumex, Mexico City 2005 Avalon Art Association, Revelin Castle, Dubrovnik, Kroatia Exile. New York is a good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York, NY Fabriques du Sublime, La Galerie, Centre d'art contemporain, Ville de Noisy-le-Sec, France The Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam Words: The Formal Presence of Text In Modern and Contemporary Works On Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Rhinegold: Art from Cologne, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom No one else can make me feel the colors that you bring, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Strawberry Fields, La Coleccion Jumex and CANAIA, Mexico City, Mexico (curated by Patricia Martin) (cat.) 2003 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Superschloss, Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany On the other hand you have different fingers, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany Friedrich Kunath: When which the roofridge time when you realized the NEXT time would the read time, mise EN sc�ne: Curieux VI-VIII, Bonner Kunstverein & Videonale, Bonn, Germany 2001 Zero Gravity, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, D�sseldorf, Germany 1995-2001, BQ, Cologne, Germany 2000 Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany Make my paper sound, Studiogalerie Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 1998 Junge Kunst im Zweiten, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Dirty Windows, Berlin, Germany 1995 VOXXX-Galerie, Chemnitz, Germany Green Room, San Diego, CA 1994 The easiest thing to grow in a garden is tired, Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Braunschweig, Germany Public Collections Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands |
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