German artist Sabine Hornig’s “Through the Window” at Pinakothek der Modern

MUNICH.- Sabine Hornig, born in 1964, is one of the most internationally celebrated German artists of her generation. Her photographic and sculptural work, created at the crossroads between photography, sculpture and site-specific installation, is both artistically independent and artistically unconventional at once and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of photography as a contemporary art form. Sabine Hornig, Window with No Back Wall, 2006. 120 x 140 x 3 cm (glass), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. At the heart of [...]

Exhibition of Works on Paper by Norbert Tadeusz Opens at Pinakothek der Moderne

MUNICH.- Norbert Tadeusz, born in 1940, was one of Joseph Beuys’ master pupils in the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the most important contemporary artists in Germany to have held steadfastly to their figurative pictorial world over a period of many decades. The familiar and the everyday in Tadeusz’s graphic work is also dominated by the presence of the (predominantly female) body in its sensual dimension. The artist’s almost obsessive theme is the body’s exposed positioning within a [...]

New, Six-Part Series by Andreas Gursky at Sprüth Magers in Berlin

BERLIN.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present an exhibition of new works by Andreas Gursky in Berlin. The series of works represents an important new development in Gursky’s practice in which the artist reassesses the way he works with photography. Like many of Andreas Gursky’s works, the new, six-part series Ocean I-VI (2009-2010) goes back to a spontaneous visual experience. As the artist relates, while flying one night from Dubai to Melbourne he stared for some time at the flight [...]