BRUEHL.- “A cult film director from Los Angeles presenting his fine art works for the first time in a German museum. You cannot miss that!”, emphasizes Dr. Achim Sommer, director of the museum and co-curator of the exhibition “David Lynch – Dark Splendor”. Until 21st March 2010 the Max Ernst Museum Bruehl of the LVR presents a selection of 150 art works of the American film maker David Lynch. Some of his works have especially been created for the exhibition. Fine art marked the beginning of David Lynch’s career and he continued in making fine art until today. Painting is an integral part of his artistic work. Themes, motives and the repertoire of shapes of his fine art works and his films mutually interwoven.
Right at the beginning of the exhibition there is a installation which can be entered by the visitors. It is a drawing of the artist translated into a three-dimensional installation, enabling the visitor to directly plunge into his dream world. An interactive sound design by David Lynch is creating a unique atmosphere in the whole exhibition space. Trigger stations may be released by the visitors, generating additional acoustic accents.
In his paintings, water colors, drawings and lithographs, too, David Lynch is leading his spectators into a world of mysteries and the inexplicable. “Our expectations are turned upside down. Hesitantly or willingly we enter his dream world and experience how reality is getting abstruse in it. Always Lynch is interrupting what we are expecting to see. It is about anxiety”, says Werner Spies, main curator of the exhibition and editor of the exhibition catalogue. Dark, subdued colors, shifting of perspectives and proportions are typical for his fine art works. This is what David Lynch has in common with Surrealism on which the artist is referring to. Time and transience are themes of his photographs. One series shows shut down, abandoned and corroded industrial sites. Another series is about melting snowmen in rural front gardens which are called “aliens” by David Lynch. Edited nude photographs and irritating altered photographs of a distraught eroticism enrich the multitude of his art visions.
Parts of his works are shown to the public for the first time, e.g. a series of water colors from the archive of the artist dominated by black color dating from 2009. Some very exciting works are his matchbooks resembling diptychs and enfolding his creative world in miniature. Small Boy in His Room and Pete goes to His Girlfriend’s House are the titles of two brand new paintings which came directly from the studio of David Lynch to Max Ernst Museum Bruehl.
During the exhibition the Max Ernst Museum Bruehl presents some almost unknown experimental short films dating from the period of his studies at the academy. In these films Lynch combines animated sequences with real ones and develops his own handwriting in film characterized by a mysterious atmosphere. His first movie Eraserhead, a surreal masterpiece, which became very famous, is also shown. Christian Fischer, journalist and author of a monograph to this film, will present an “Eraserhead-evening” on Saturday, 27th February 2010 at 6 p.m. A talk on the fine art of David Lynch by Werner Spies, Peter-Klaus Schuster and Andreas Platthaus is scheduled for Saturday, 30th January 2010 at 5 p.m. In cooperation with the museum, the cinema Zoom Kino in Bruehl will show two movies by David Lynch in January (The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive) and a movie by his daughter Jennifer Lynch (Surveillance).
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March 11 › June 21, 2010
“What do I usually think or do? Here is your answer: come see my exhibition in March 2010.” Beat Takeshi Kitano
Funny yet touching, unpredictable yet brilliant, Beat Takeshi Kitano is a multifaceted and prolific artist that has captivated the Japanese public. Comedian and host of nine TV shows ranging from the highly comical to the very serious, he is one of the most popular entertainers in his own country. Abroad, Takeshi Kitano is a widely acclaimed author and actor, and has directed Sonatine (1995), Hana-Bi (1997, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival) and Zatôichi (2003), among other masterpieces of contemporary film. His compelling work gives beautiful form to the expressions of violence, solitude and childlike playfulness. He also has a love of painting, his first and most private passion. For him, painting is the ideal form of representation and it plays an important role in the creative process of his filmmaking.
Beat Takeshi Kitano got caught up with their collaboration and imagined an extraordinary project. He is currently creating Gosse de peintre, a site-specific exhibition for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain that presents an unexpected and captivating world in which the magical memories of his childhood take center stage. With subtlety and an impertinent humor, that moves from black to zany, Kitano leads the visitor through surprises, gags, and games, all the while mocking contemporary art, experimenting with the sciences, and toying with the clichés associated with his country. Presenting paintings and video films, as well as astonishing objects and settings, whimsical and fantastic machines, Beat Takeshi Kitano invites the visitor to think, play, dream and join the show.
This very first Beat Takeshi Kitano exhibition is undeniably one of the most unexpected and ambitious shows ever created for the Fondation Cartier. After its presentation in Paris, Gosse de peintre will be shown at other venues around the world.
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June 15 Portrait painting by Edu Castells Reviewed by Fire on the Lifeboat
The roots of portrait painting are to be found in Prehistoric times, but it came to really flourish as a prominent art-form in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The early twentieth century saw the artists’ portrait repertoire expand even further and, despite a fall in popularity towards the middle of the 20th century, portrait painting has once more undergone a revival at the start of the new millennium.
Eduard Castells NOISE space provides an excellent example not just of how far the portrait has come but also of how the internet is now being used to showcase art,. Taking the Dalai Lama, The Phantom and a wide range of characterised animals, Castells applies a unique touch to an age old process.
His NOISE showcase features a series of caricatures, portraits and studies of a wide range of subjects from superheroes to hipsters to misfits. Pictures of alienation, friendship and vice abound, but one thing really stands out in Castells’ work: personality and character. Idiosyncrasy and individuality shines from each picture, providing us with figures who all have a story.
The narrative aspect of Castell’s work grabs the attention; whether it’s the lechery of sweetheart, the uptight comedy of senhora, or the pathos of bighead, these are beautiful caricatures that have been brought to life by the artist’s talent. Castells shows himself to have a fine grasp of a variety of mediums, experimenting with pencil sketch delicacy as well as refreshing swathes of colour. The artist’s digital collages add an entirely new dimension to his work also, ensuring that he walks an expert line between Marvel comic-art, Picasso’s portraiture and Photoshop kitsch.
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