Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents the works of five German based female abstract painters of the young generation.Besides their age, medium, gender or genre the artists are all alumni of the Art Academy in Dusseldorf – a place known for its pronounced painting tradition. Beyond the mentioned similarities “Quintessenz,” is an amalgam of different artistic languages and different attitudes towards abstract painting that are vaguely juxtaposed thereby creating vast scope for discussion.While particularly in the last decade many artists have cultivated painting among other more contemporary felt or rated media and means of expression as performance, film and photography a new generation of artists seems to center again with a definite and new focus on a genre that periodically is taken for outdated and done.The premise of the show expands upon the question that what can this generation add to the much scolded media after the canvas drawn on stretcher has in the past for the purpose of a conceptual enhancement already been “painted on“ with burns and bricks amongst other things? While one examines the works strategically and ironically and questions painting, especially in Germany was carried out in the 1980s, one notices that it hardly exists today. Besides and simultaneously a lustfully appropriation of the diverse stylisms and languages of the 20th century painting takes place. This particular approach also indicates towards the fact that the painting with its strictly rectangular, two-dimensional limitations is basically no longer questioned. As a result of the altered relation to their medium and its history a rich painterly complexity appears which this show confirms.The exhibition will be on view from November 11, 2017 to January 13, 2018 at Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Potsdamer Straße 85, D-10785 BerlinFor details, visit: www.guidowbaudach.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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