19-03-2010

15-04-2010

Germany, Berlin
BOUROUINA GALLERY Charlottenstr.1-2 10969 Berlin

Posted by: bourouina-gallery

Category: Exhibition

Field: Visual arts

Source www.bourouina.com

WIR KÖNNEN AUCH ANDERS!
(There's more to us than that!)

Opening: FR 19. MARCH , 6 to 9 p.m.
Exhibition: 20. MARCH - 15. APRIL

with: Flurin Bisig, Gabriel Braun, Carola Ernst, Surya Gied, Matthias Hesselbacher, Magda Korsinsky, Caroline Kryzecki, Claudia Larcher, Linus Lohmann, Valentin Emil Lubberger, Stamati Papazoglou, Maeghan Reid, Philipp Schwalb, Philipp Simon, Tim Stapel, Judith Sönnicken, Lukas Quietzsch


The Bourouina Gallery is very pleased to present an exhibition in cooperation with the Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy and the Berlin University of the Arts, plus guests from the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg and the Düsseldorf Art Academy: Wir können auch anders! (There's more to us than that!)

Somewhere between Kafka's colossal Natural Theater of Oklahoma and an utterly crowded central market, this exhibition is a reloading point for the rebellious odd and daring cool-headed ventures of sixteen young artists. The artists are either still enrolled or recently graduated from art school, so there is quite a lot to discover!

Each has their their own quarrels with modernism, and draws a bow from the utopic grand concepts at the beginning of the 20th Century through nightmares, tragedies, and farces to an disillusioned as well as stimulated present. (It is all a matter of style or to express it another way: As dark, as devious and as insencire as art itself, the ways of El Lissitzky to Alexander Rodtschenko, Majakowskis LEF groups, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Ellsworth Kelly up to Bridget Riley, from Joseph Cornell, Aleister Crowleys A.·.A.·., James Glieck, Henri Michaux, Man Ray to Henri Matisse and Francis Picabia.)

With strong gesture, catatonic rapture and ample amusement this exhibition reconciles exoticism and rationalism, constructivism of the Russian school, surreal objects, Turkish fast food culture and occultism, hard edge and soft edge, and also the stylistic secrets of architecture and furniture with the mysteries of painting and sculpture. Be warned! They who miss the opportunity now, fail forever. They who keep the future in mind is one of us! Everybody is welcome! But watch out: There's more to us than that!

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