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Volker Diehl: MOCKBA! CONTEMPORARY ART FROM RUSSIA | Diehl Projects ; GEKA HEINKE - 6 Sept 2008 to 18 Oct 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Tondo #7, 2006 digital print on canvas, diameter 150 cm |
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GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL LINDENSTR. 35 10969 BERLIN MOCKBA! CONTEMPORARY ART FROM RUSSIA OPENING Friday, September 5th, 7 p.m. September 6th - October 18th, 2008 Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. AES+F KONSTANTIN BATYNKOV ALEXEY BELIAYEV-GUINTOVT BLUE NOSES SERGEI CHAIKA OLGA CHERNYSHEVA ALEXEY KALLIMA KONSTANTIN LATYSHEV VLADISLAV MAMYSHEV-MONROE ANATOLY OSMOLOVSKY ANATOLY SHURAVLEV DMITRY TSVETKOV VADIM ZAKHAVOV Berlin, August 26th, 2008 � Galerie Volker Diehl is proud to present a group exhibition with contemporary Russian artists living and working in Moscow. This exhibition has arisen out of Volker Diehl�s many years of involvement in the Russian art scene, culminating with the opening of DIEHL + GALLERY ONE this year in April, providing own exhibition space in Moscow. Now, the home Berlin gallery is hosting a cross-section of Russian contemporary art relevant in the international arena. The exhibition comprises a total of thirteen exhibitors � including two groups of artists, AES+F and Blue Noses � and spans the spectrum of current Russian art practice that, in many ways, is imbued by the legacy of the conceptualism prevalent there in the 1980s and 90s. The artists in the most direct line to that tradition are, first and foremost, Anatoly Osmolovsky (*1969), winner of the 2007 Kandinsky Prize, Olga Chernysheva (*1962), Anatoly Shuravlev (*1963) and Vadim Zakharov (*1959). Osmolovsky is showing three wall objects of wood and bronze, developed from the large-scale bread series exhibited at the last documenta in Kassel. Olga Chernysheva is presenting photographs of oscow�s everyday worlds in images oscillating between drastic directness and an intensive, aesthetic use of colour. For a long time now, Anatoly Shuravlev, artistic director of the recently opened GMG Gallery in Moscow, has spent part of the year in Berlin. In this show, he is represented with a print that, from a distance, merely looks like a black flag; it only reveals its secrets when the viewer is close-up. The exhibits also include three works from Vadim Zakharov�s �Russian Porcelain� series, exploring the theme of intellect/erudition vs. kitsch. Zakharov finds Soviet era porcelain figures at flea markets and sets them on editions of philosophical classics or reference works published in the same period: a subtle yet profound questioning of the Soviet life-worlds behind official politics and propaganda. These contemporary Russian artists frequently thematise the hidden violence and military tradition of their society as, for example, in the shockingly high-gloss aesthetics of adolescents fighting by AES+F (Tatiana Arzamasova *1955, Lev Evzovich *1958, Evgeny Svyatsk *1957, Vladimir Fridkes *1956), the fictional war images by Konstantin Batynkov (*1959) or the coats covered with medals by Dmitry Tsvetkov (*1961). Chechen artist Alexey Kallima (*1969), who is living and working in Moscow, depicts resistance fighters in his homeland as heroes in comic-like, surreal scenarios, coined by fashion world poses and the logo of a global sporting goods manufacturer headquartered in Herzogenaurach in Bavaria. In his �Eternal Flame� series, the young artist Sergei Chaika (*1978) deals with the topic of suffering and destruction in a far more realistic way, with a powerful image of an entombment echoing Christian iconography. In his large-format works with their gold-leaf ground, Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt (*1965) evokes the Soviet legacy in present-day Russia in all its hypertrophied glory and monumentality. The exhibits also feature one other marked trend in Russian contemporary art � a sometimes drastic humour and the adaptation of existing artistic codes. This is especially evident in works by Konstantin Latyshev (*1966), whose silk-screen prints are indebted to the western graphic tradition in advertising, yet can similarly be seen in works by Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe (*1969), renowned for his role-plays in the most diverse costumes from the Pope to Charlie Chaplin. Mamyshev-Monroe is represented in the exhibition by a self-portrait as Marilyn Monroe. Last but not least, such biting humour is central to the approach of the notorious Blue Noses (founded in 1999 by Viacheslav Mizin *1962, Alexander Shaburov *1965), whose works have been censored by the Russian state. In their �Kitchen uprematism� series, they irreverently reference a Russian �holy cow�: slices of bread and salami on a kitchen table take the shape of Kasimir Malevitch�s iconic and widespread images. �MOCKBA! CONTEMPORARY ART FROM RUSSIA� finds an unplanned echo two weeks later at an exhibition opening on 19 September in the Palazzo Italia, Unter den Linden 10. The show, supported by the Deutsche Bank Foundation and ArtChronika, the leading Russian art magazine, is exhibiting works by the artists short-listed for the 2007 Kandinsky Prize, including Anatoly Osmolovsky and Vladislav Mamyshev- Monroe. Further information: Press contact GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL: Achim Klapp Medienberatung Telephone +49 (0)30 - 25 79 70 16, [email protected] GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL � Lindenstra�e 35 � 10969 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Telephone +49 (0) 30 - 22 48 79 22 � [email protected] Further exhibitions: DIEHL + GALLERY ONE � Smolenskaya Embankment 5 � 121099 Moskau WIM DELVOYE, NEW WORKS, September 19 - October 25, 2008 DIEHL PROJECTS � Zimmerstra�e 88 - 91 � 10117 Berlin (Mitte) GEKA HEINKE, RAND, September 13 - October 25, 2008 Diehl Projects Zimmerstra�e 88-91 1st courtyard, Staircase C, 2nd floor 10117 Berlin-Mitte GEKA HEINKE RAND OPENING: Friday, 12 September 2008, 7 pm EXHIBITION: 13 September - 7 November 2008 Diehl Projects is proud to present the first solo show by the Berlin artist Geka Heinke (*1967), a former master class student at the College of Fine Arts (HdK). Her medium is painting and her oeuvre is centred exclusively on the still life genre. Her works show everyday objects: a lampshade, the wallpapered corner of a room, shelves, a patterned parquet floor, a wardrobe. However, the apparent fortuitousness or simplicity of the objects is strikingly juxtaposed with their spectacular presence as a painted image. Usually painting in large formats, Geka Heinke transforms the marginal things of life into stringently designed, highly conceptually composed images, using strategically set fractures to question their own aesthetic construction. With these monumental yet simultaneously laconic still-lifes, Geka Heinke has a completely independent place in contemporary art. At the same time, she has taken the relationship between space and surface, an almost quintessentially classical theme, and set it in a modern context. Heinke�s works derive their vitality from the tension between these two worlds, which she deliberately leaves unresolved. On the one hand, she employs a powerfully effective repertoire and trompe I�oeil techniques to create illusions of spatial perspective; on the other, she works with flat lines and colours, where purely self-referential painted areas are combined with unworked segments allowing the structure of the material � canvas or hardboard � to shimmer through. Heinke also commonly cuts the support for her painting into a polygonal shape, thus creating an additional artefact in her works. Geka Heinke explores how painting as a medium can still assert itself against the continuing trend to dissolve the boundaries of art. Her works incorporate the contemporary experience of space. They are not images hung on a wall to look through them, as if through a �window�. Instead, they engage beholders in a visual dialogue that includes the real space around them. Informed by the idea of a painted installation, many of Geka Heinke�s works are created directly on the wall and she is also painting one entire wall for her exhibition at Diehl Projects. Geka Heinke has shown her work both in Germany and internationally at exhibitions in, for example, Ireland and the USA. 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg Tel. +49 30 - 22 48 79 22, [email protected], www.galerievolkerdiehl.com Press contact GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL/DIEHL PROJECTS Achim Klapp, Tel. +49 30 - 25 79 70 16, [email protected] DIEHL + GALLERY ONE 5/13, Smolenskaya Embankment RU - 12 10 99 Moscow WIM DELVOYE NEW WORKS OPENING September 18th, 7 P.M. September 19th � October 25th, 2008 DIEHL + GALLERY ONE is pleased to announce a major exhibition by internationally celebrated Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. The exhibition includes pieces from different work series that the artist pursued in the last couple of years. The central work is a 5m high computer designed gothic tower crafted in laser-cut stainless steel � a development of his ornamented trucks and concrete mixers that he became famous with. |
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