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he gallery Contemporary Fine Arts has been in existence now for twenty years and can look back over more than 150 exhibitions. For almost half of this time one worked without the internet and electronic media that is hard to believe in the digital era. This makes it all the more fascinating to dip into the analogue past and the first exhibition catalogues, posters, invitation cards etc. out of the CFA archive. These materials were meant to have a continued existence and are thereby the opposite of the transitory mode of the digital posts in today鈥檚 multimedia-based world. Where the aim is speed and to be the first to announce news, where as the former printed materials were thought out down to the finest detail and should above all be final, definite and irreversible. The fun that the gallery and the artists had during the production is sustained in the object: Holding a catalogue in ones hands, being able to take a small piece of the exhibition home and to enjoy it over and over again over the years.
The title 鈥淔RONT ROW鈥� alludes to the gallery鈥檚 pioneering role as one of the first institutions to issue publications on individual exhibitions. These were designed in close collaboration with the artists. Be it Damien Hirst鈥榮 鈥淢aking Beautiful Drawings鈥� from 1994, Peter Doig鈥榮 鈥淏lotter鈥� from 1995, Daniel Richter鈥檚 鈥�17 Jahre Nasenbluten鈥� from the year 1997, Jonathan Meese鈥檚 comprehensive catalogue 鈥淢ama Johnny鈥� from the Deichtorhallen Hamburg or the large monographic publication on Dash Snow, both from 2007, as well as Tal R's 鈥淎dieu Interessant鈥� from 2008. Also rarities, such as Raymond Pettibon's fanzines from the eighties, Sigmar Polke鈥榮 catalogue 鈥淕emeinschaftswerk Aufschwung Ost鈥� from 1993 and original sketchbooks by Norbert Schwontkowski will be on view.
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he gallery Contemporary Fine Arts has been in existence now for twenty years and can look back over more than 150 exhibitions. For almost half of this time one worked without the internet and electronic media that is hard to believe in the digital era. This makes it all the more fascinating to dip into the analogue past and the first exhibition catalogues, posters, invitation cards etc. out of the CFA archive. These materials were meant to have a continued existence and are thereby the opposite of the transitory mode of the digital posts in today鈥檚 multimedia-based world. Where the aim is speed and to be the first to announce news, where as the former printed materials were thought out down to the finest detail and should above all be final, definite and irreversible. The fun that the gallery and the artists had during the production is sustained in the object: Holding a catalogue in ones hands, being able to take a small piece of the exhibition home and to enjoy it over and over again over the years.
The title 鈥淔RONT ROW鈥� alludes to the gallery鈥檚 pioneering role as one of the first institutions to issue publications on individual exhibitions. These were designed in close collaboration with the artists. Be it Damien Hirst鈥榮 鈥淢aking Beautiful Drawings鈥� from 1994, Peter Doig鈥榮 鈥淏lotter鈥� from 1995, Daniel Richter鈥檚 鈥�17 Jahre Nasenbluten鈥� from the year 1997, Jonathan Meese鈥檚 comprehensive catalogue 鈥淢ama Johnny鈥� from the Deichtorhallen Hamburg or the large monographic publication on Dash Snow, both from 2007, as well as Tal R's 鈥淎dieu Interessant鈥� from 2008. Also rarities, such as Raymond Pettibon's fanzines from the eighties, Sigmar Polke鈥榮 catalogue 鈥淕emeinschaftswerk Aufschwung Ost鈥� from 1993 and original sketchbooks by Norbert Schwontkowski will be on view.
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