Feb 26 - March 27, 2010

 

In his stage-like paintings, Kirti Ingerfurth employs modular elements from different ages and cultural backgrounds: Medieval and contemporary urban landscapes, Islamic architectures, or Asian figurines. His narrative and thoroughly poetic approach has a critical impetus; social values and a sense for justice are crucial factors. Ingerfurth sympathizes with streetart in the broadest sense: The ephemeral and marginal cultural quality of graffiti wins respectful recognition in his elaborate panels in egg tempera.

Kirti Ingerfurth studied stagecraft at the School of Design, Cologne, painting at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, and did his post-graduate studies with Prof. H. Trökes. Subsequently, he worked as a painter in Berlin (numerous exhibitions, scripts, public commissions). He travelled to India, the United States of America, Greece, and Israel. He lectured at the Freie Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Freiburg. His constructions of dance figurines went on loan to the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Since 1995, Ingerfurth has given numerous workshops. He did poster actions and exhibited his manikins ('Against Boring Art'). Also, he studied at the University of Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands (Performance).

Exhibitions include: Glasmenagerie, Berlin, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin; Berlinische Galerie; Stadthalle, Kehl; Schwarzes Kloster, Marienbad, Freiburg; Artefakt-Galerie, Basel; Galerie im Obergericht, Zurich; Kunstraum "Moltke 18", Freiburg; POST FINE ARTS, Freiburg.

Awards: Käthe-Dorsch-Scholarship, Berlin; Screenplay Award, Berlinische Galerie / Prof. Eberhard Roters; Leonardo da Vinci-Scholarship, Cologne.

 

 

 

 

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March 13 - April 24, 2010

 

On Friday, 12th of March 2010 from 6 to 9 p.m., Galerie Michael Janssen will be presenting a selection of Emil Holmer's recent paintings. Dead Letters is the first solo exhibition of the Swedish artist at the gallery. Born in Karlstad in 1975, Holmer studied at the Academy of Arts in Umeå and at the U.D.K. in Berlin, where he was a guest student in the class of Tony Cragg. In recent years, Holmer had several solo exhibitions in Europe, Australia and South Africa.

 

Emil Holmer's paintings are cathartic explosions; axes, spears, wood constructions, body parts as well as abstract geometric forms and amorphous shapes seem to be exploding like fireworks on the canvas or are just heaped up like debris after an apocalyptic video game war. Holmer's works are reminiscent of Graffiti and the avant-garde movement COBRA, whose primary focus consisted of semi-abstract paintings with brilliant color, violent brushwork and distorted human figures.

 

The large format paintings are violent image symphonies, in which the density inherent in every depicted scene creates a blur, straining the viewer's eyes. Drawing on such areas as psychopathology, fear, power, sexuality and the body, Emil Holmer is strongly influenced by pop culture, midway between the horror film and the comic strip.

 

Since the Chaos and Fractal Theory, "chaos" doesn't simply mean 'anarchy' but 'a higher order': out of confusion and complexity life emerges as a functioning organism. Chaos displays an innate tendency to form into patterns and structures and it fosters and commands order despite of all forces that act against it. Self-organization is the result of re-invention and creative adaptation due to the introduction of perturbed equilibrium. Holmer's paintings are one example of an organization, which exists in a constant state of perturbation, with irregularities, even randomness in the dynamics of systems considered as 'ordered' by the traditional views.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Connors
Dromedary Resting

 

February 27 - April 3, 2010

 

Cherry and Martin is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of Matt Connors' abstract paintings. The exhibition is Connors' first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

 

Matt Connors' works examine a range of non-mimetic signs including touch, frame and surface, while flirting with the representing possibilities of a number of different emblems, including letter and number forms, stars and pennants. Some of these emblems are gleaned from everyday usage and seem oddly familiar. Some of them are mysterious and open the door to the possibility of private meanings. Exploring the idiosyncrasies of personal vision while directing the viewer in a loose, yet insistent way, Connors' paintings elicit an emotional and visceral response while at the same time allowing for a range of intellectual questions. It has been suggested that Connors' pictures are not so much abstract paintings as paintings of abstract paintings. In some sense this is true, yet, at the same time, Connors paintings have a not-to-be overlooked handmade aspect that thoroughly grounds viewer and object in their own space.

 

There is a found object quality to Matt Connors' practice that draws not only on the world around us, but also on histories and practices of painting. For example, Backgammon (2009), combines a stretcher, a roll of found material and a hand-brushed application of Gesso. Gesso is, of course, a store-bought undercoat typically used to start not finish a canvas. The result here is an enigmatic, seemingly grid-dependent monochrome that straddles painting as an immediate and a historical moment.

 

Also included in the exhibition will be one of Connors' new frottage pictures. The nature of frottage implies that studio practice is a kind of loop that that both reaches out at the world and looks back upon itself. The exhibition title, Dromedary Resting, also suggests that refraction and illusion, happy accidents and purposeful incommensurabilities are as much a fact of art making as our experience of it.

 

Matt Connors will participate in upcoming solo exhibitions at Galerie Martin Janda (Vienna) and CANADA (New York). Connors's paintings were included in Matt Connors, Arturo Herrera and Merlin James at Sikkema Jenkins (New York) and he has had recent solo exhibitions at Lüttgenmeijer (Berlin) and The Breeder (Athens). Connors received his BFA from Bennington College in 1995 and his MFA from Yale University in 2006. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

 

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6 March  to 24 April 2010

 

We proudly invite you to the first solo exhibition by Fides Becker in our Berlin based gallery.

Fides Becker works and lives in Frankfurt am Main - a town that is influenced not only by 'old money' but also by a disproportionately high share of mostly highly qualified immigrants.

 

The ambivalence caused by these factors is also apparent in the work of Fides Becker, born 1962. In the past she was occupied by female roles exploring the question of an actual or alleged female emancipation and the ambivalence between a house wife image and an independent female sexuality. Newly she started exploring our current value system that is dissolving and at the same time being reinvented.

 

Besides the (often autobiographic) 'sexual' works, Fides Becker also paints canvases that show rooms, furniture and lamps from previous epochs appearing as though she's almost longing for its snugness. On one hand Becker is yearning for the ideals of the bourgeois and on the other she questions them. Her objects are not concrete they rather appear moldy, old and dissolving. And exactly when the works of Fides Becker appear exotic and resemble grand illusion-paintings she returns to a human and socio-political reality.

 

Fides Becker has exhibited in the Kunsthalle Emden and in the art space Dornbirn in Austria. She has also been awarded with several grants amongst others from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the artists-in-residence Schloß Balmoral in Bad Ems. This year Fides Becker has been awarded with the highly reputed grant at Cité des Arts in Paris.

 

In the exhibition both new canvases and watercolours are shown in connection with a couple of works from the past 3 years.

 

 

 

 

 

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