Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach: Edvard Munch
Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce the group show Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach: Edvard Munch, curated by Christian Malycha in Goethestra脽e 2/3. The show includes works by Georg Baselitz, Andr茅 Butzer, Peter Doig, Ida Ekblad, G眉nther F枚rg, Adrian Ghenie, Mark Grotjahn, Sophie von Hellermann, Asger Jorn, Sanya Kantarovsky, Adam Saks and Grace Weaver.
In the face of the world鈥檚 constant upheavals throughout the 20th century, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is the painter of life鈥檚 fundamental tale of birth, love, fear, and death. Beyond that he is, together with Henri Matisse, one of the greatest colourists of the past 100 years.
Spanning five generations, the group exhibition Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach picks up the invisible thread, which connects Munch鈥檚 oeuvre with our present.
Time and again, Munch is able to spark 鈥渧ital controversies鈥� and, according to Georg Baselitz, he incorporates 鈥渢he risk鈥� every new generation has to take, in order 鈥渢o put itself onto its own feet鈥�. Munch鈥檚 liberty and his freshness are unbroken.
The existential inner conflicts of his figures correspond with a tremendous vitality, positivity, and painterly openness, by which, for instance, G眉nther F枚rg was heartstricken. It is an openness that can express and make visible the vanishing traces of life.
Due to such manifold expressive qualities, Edvard Munch is to this very day just as unsettling as he is fascinating. Only 鈥渢his very day鈥�, one鈥檚 own time, is always elusive. It鈥檚 never just 'here'. It will neither be found in the past nor in the future. It rather seems to encompass the whole span of what was and what is yet to come.
To endure at the heart of this unsteady center of time, every individual experience creates its own, appropriate expression. Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach affirms that painting in all its cross-generational diversity, no matter if figurative or abstract, gestural or conceptual, still is a sensuous sign of human existence.
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Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce the group show Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach: Edvard Munch, curated by Christian Malycha in Goethestra脽e 2/3. The show includes works by Georg Baselitz, Andr茅 Butzer, Peter Doig, Ida Ekblad, G眉nther F枚rg, Adrian Ghenie, Mark Grotjahn, Sophie von Hellermann, Asger Jorn, Sanya Kantarovsky, Adam Saks and Grace Weaver.
In the face of the world鈥檚 constant upheavals throughout the 20th century, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is the painter of life鈥檚 fundamental tale of birth, love, fear, and death. Beyond that he is, together with Henri Matisse, one of the greatest colourists of the past 100 years.
Spanning five generations, the group exhibition Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach picks up the invisible thread, which connects Munch鈥檚 oeuvre with our present.
Time and again, Munch is able to spark 鈥渧ital controversies鈥� and, according to Georg Baselitz, he incorporates 鈥渢he risk鈥� every new generation has to take, in order 鈥渢o put itself onto its own feet鈥�. Munch鈥檚 liberty and his freshness are unbroken.
The existential inner conflicts of his figures correspond with a tremendous vitality, positivity, and painterly openness, by which, for instance, G眉nther F枚rg was heartstricken. It is an openness that can express and make visible the vanishing traces of life.
Due to such manifold expressive qualities, Edvard Munch is to this very day just as unsettling as he is fascinating. Only 鈥渢his very day鈥�, one鈥檚 own time, is always elusive. It鈥檚 never just 'here'. It will neither be found in the past nor in the future. It rather seems to encompass the whole span of what was and what is yet to come.
To endure at the heart of this unsteady center of time, every individual experience creates its own, appropriate expression. Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach affirms that painting in all its cross-generational diversity, no matter if figurative or abstract, gestural or conceptual, still is a sensuous sign of human existence.
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