Leon Golub. Knife to Heart – Modernism is Kaputt
The work of Leon Golub (1922–2004) roots in issues of power and vulnerability in all its forms and ramification s in human nature. The tragic figure is central in the work of the multiple documentaparticipant who is one of the protagonists of American Realism. He examines his central theme closely by studying ancient sculptures, frescoes and mythology. In his edgy, unsettling infectious paintings and works on paper Golub lays paint in layers and crusts as sediments above one another. By partially scraping them with butcher axes he enforces the dramatic tenor of his work.
David Schutter. Studies for an Execution
The center of Aurel Scheibler’s show is David Schutter’s (*1974, lives in Chicago) current project, which addresses a painted study by Édouard Manet Study for the Execution of Emperor Maxmillian (1867, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen ). Having studied the work through drawings, field notes and archival research, Schutter “re-made ” several versions of Manet’s oil study in a 1-to-1 scale with like materials and without aid memoires. Accompanying his paintings the exhibition shows a group of associative drawings.
Michael Wutz. The Heavy Spring Rains of 1769, Pawtuxet
The visual topics in the works of the Berlin based artist Michael Wutz (*1979) alternate between the fascination for indigenous people and prehistorical research, the Fin de Siècle and the offsides of modern life in its urban shapes. Wutz's drawings in coal and sepia as well as his etchings, for which he has received the Horst-Janssen-Graphic Prize in 2011, combine those poles. He chains them up to complex narratives and creates new visionary worlds.
