art in dialog
In the 17th and 18th centuries, conversation pieces were fashionable, showing sociability or people in conversation. This year, however, the start of the season has some remarkable double exhibitions in store, in which the items are not in stimulating correspondence with each other, but with each other. In the ExhibitionHall 1A in Sachsenhausen, works on paper by Britta Lumer, who studied under Gregor Herold and Per Kirkeby at the Städelschule from 1992 to 1996, enter into a dialog with the sculptures of Margit Seiler. She studied there from 1991 to 1997 under Ulrich Rückriem and Thomas Bayrle.
Britta Lumer paints huge, larger-than-life heads with a surprising multi-perspective transparency. Exhibition hall 1A
Under the title POWER PLAY Jean-Claude Maier presents a duo show in the Bahnhofsviertel that juxtaposes a new series of abstract paintings by Theo Altenberg with the sculptural installation "Hype Machine" by Faina Yunusova. Born in Uzbekistan in 1991, the artist, who usually questions constructs of identity and tradition and studied at the HfG in Offenbach, was represented in the 2021 exhibition "And This Is Us 2021 - Young Art from Frankfurt" at the Frankfurter Kunstverein.
"With 'First Light Forever', Theo Altenberg has created a new energetic series of abstract paintings for the wonderful old building premises of the gallery(Jean-Claude Maier)."
In the Westend Barbara von Stechow Gallery under the title "moments meets memories", paintings by the Polish artist couple Leszek Skurski and Joanna Skurska can be seen, while E30 in Nordend juxtaposes paintings by Lenia Hauser and Holger Kurt Jäger.
Pictorial exchange at Galerie E30: paintings by Lenia Hauser and Holger Kurt Jäger (pictured here)
And in the city center develop in the Japan Art - Gallery Friedrich Müller the artist friends Koichi Nasu and Klaus Staudtwho taught at the HfG Offenbach for many years, have created a dialog between painting and object.
"We often talked about it and drew comparisons with other artists. The exhibition at Frankfurt's Japan Art Galerie is an attempt to juxtapose the two groups of works with the indication that two different artistic statements reflect the same attitude in the consequence of their development."
Wolfstaedter im Nordend has selected collages and photographs by the great Fluxus artist Benjamin Patterson , framed by photographs taken by the Frankfurt artist Max Pauer of Patterson's last performances - as well as a short film of them, edited by Gunter Deller and shown for the first time.
Benjamin Patterson (* May 29, 1934 in Pittsburgh, † June 25, 2016 in Wiesbaden) was one of the great artists of Fluxus. WOLFSTÆDTER
