Gregory Crewdson, Untitled (Esther Terrace), 'Beneath the Roses', 2006, digital carbon print, 145 x 223,5 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Gregory Crewdson, 2010.
Neo Rauch, Interview, 2006, oil on canvas, 210 x 300 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.
Axel Hütte, Hoh Rain Forest-2, USA, 2007, C-Print, 132 x 198 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Axel Hütte, 2010.
Axel Hütte, Underworld-1, Mexico, 2008, C-Print, 140,5 x 202 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Axel Hütte, 2010.
William N. Copley, All Alone, 1965, oil on canvas, 96,5 x 129,5 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Estate of William N. Copley / Copley LLC., New York.
John Chamberlain, Spotlight of Affection, 1994, painted and chrome-plated steel, 146 x 302 x 134 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
Sigmar Polke, Kartoffelköppe (Mao & LBJ), 1965, Artificial resin on canvas, 91 x 116 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Sigmar Polke, 2010.
Pablo Picasso, Le couple, 1969, oil on canvas, 108,5 x 140,5 cm. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
Pablo Picasso, Nu couché, 1968, oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
William N. Copley, Chelsea Girls, 1973, acrylic on canvas, 113,5 x 146 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Estate of William N. Copley / Copley LLC., New York.
James Turrell, Cherry, 1998, Aperture piece. Fluorescent and tungsten light, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Courtesy Almine Rech Gallery, Paris-Brüssel, © James Turrell, 2010.
Johannes Hüppi, ohne Titel, 2008, oil on canvas, 160 x 120 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010. |
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Museum Frieder Burda
Lichtentaler Allee 8 b
(00)49–(0)7221–39898-0
Baden-Baden
There is Something about These Pictures
March 25-June 20, 2010
A selection of works from the Collection Frieder Burda are on display at the Museum Frieder Burda, making for an inspiring encounter with important works from its inventory, as well as with recently acquired paintings. The exhibition, entitled There is something about these pictures, is comprised of more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and art installations by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Isa Genzken, Neo Rauch, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmar Polke, Willem de Kooning, Gregory Crewdson, Anton Henning, Nedko Solakov and Axel Hütte, as well as by Johannes Hüppi, John Chamberlain and William N. Copley. The title “There is something about these pictures” refers to a quotation by Frieder Burda, while talking about his passion for art and the intuitive way in which he built his collection.
The Collection Frieder Burda numbers among Europe’s most important and valuable private art collections. The exhibition is co-curated by the young art historian Patricia Kamp and Jean-Christophe Ammann, the former director of the Museum for Modern Art (Museum für Moderne Kunst) in Frankfurt.
Patricia Kamp: “We deliberately wanted the juxtaposition of radically different works, in order to allow a new view of the Collection. A collection such as the one assembled by Frieder Burda presents the opportunity of time and again opening up new visual panoramas and developing new constellations.”
One of the highlights of the exhibition will be an installation by the painter Anton Henning, who will travel to Baden-Baden to personally erect the art installation as part of the show. Another highlight will be a light installation by US artist James Turrell. Turrell is the best-known contemporary light artist, whose installations provide an entirely new definition to the perception of light.
Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov will treat the walls of the Museum Frieder Burda as a giant canvas, scrawling his doodle-like, narrative drawings along a sequence of rooms, drawings that read more like panels from a comic strip than fine art. Solakov studied mural painting at the Academy of Arts in Sophia. He has created an oeuvre of funny, sarcastic and sometimes melancholic drawings, texts or installations that invite not only to laughter but reflection as well.
The Collection Frieder Burda has its roots in German expressionism, encompassing artists such as Max Beckmann, August Macke and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It currently comprises more than 1,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper. The main emphasis is on Classical Modernism and contemporary art. The Frieder Burda Collection includes a total of eight impressive works from Picasso’s later period. Though, the most important and comprehensive collections of art works in the entire Frieder Burda collection are those by Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz. Numerous examples of all the periods of their creative life provide a broad overview of these artists, who so tremendously influenced contemporary art.
For several years now, Frieder Burda has dedicated himself to the art of the young painter generation, in particular Neo Rauch, Uwe Kowski, Tim Eitel and Matthias Weischer from Leipzig. Burda’s recent acquisitions include photographs by the American Gregory Crewdson and the German Axel Hütte, as well as artworks by Johannes Hüppi, Karin Kneffel, Susanne Kühn, Heribert Ottersbach, Eberhard Havekost and Robert Rauschenberg, some of which have been integrated into the upcoming exhibition. During the past three years, Frieder Burda has acquired approximately 200 paintings, mostly created by young artists. Frieder Burda: “I don’t want to stagnate; I want to continue to develop, and this I try to do by buying young art.”
A comprehensive catalogue published by Hatje Cantz Verlag will accompany the exhibition. It will include a dialogue between Frieder Burda and the curators Patricia Kamp and Jean-Christophe Ammann about the conception of the exhibition and the Collection Frieder Burda.
William N. Copley, Calcutta by Day, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 165,5 x 132,5 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Estate of William N. Copley / Copley LLC., New York.
Isa Genzken, Fenster, 1990, 252 x 80 x 42 cm, Concrete sculpture, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Isa Genzken, 2010.
Isa Genzken, Weltempfänger, 1990, Beton und Antenne. Concrete and aerial, on bottom side inscribed "Baden-Baden", signed and dated "Isa Genzken 1990. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Isa Genzken, 2010.
Sigmar Polke, B-Mode, 1987, Artificial lacquer on synthetic cotton, 300 x 224 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Sigmar Polke, 2010.
Isa Genzken, New Buildings for Berlin, 2002/2003, 2 parts, each ca. 80 x 17 x 23 cm, Glass, mirror, foil.Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Isa Genzken, 2010.
Isa Genzken, New Buildings for Berlin, 2002/2003, 2 parts, each ca. 80 x 17 x 23 cm, Glass, mirror, foil, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Isa Genzken, 2010.
Willem de Kooning, Large Torso, 1974, bronze, 93 x 91 x 70 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © The Willem de Kooning Foundation/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
Neo Rauch, o.T., 2007, carbon on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.
Neo Rauch, o.T., 2009, pencil, crayon, ball-pen on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York. |
