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April 17 – June 13, 2009
modern modern
Curated by Pati Hertling
image courtesy of the Honey Suckle Company
In line with its commitment to question and rethink traditional notions in art practice and presentation, The Chelsea Art Museum, Home of the Miotte Foundation, is presenting modern modern, a group exhibition curated by Pati Hertling featuring works by 34 contemporary artists.
modern modern points to an emotional and aesthetic sensibility among the artists in the show, who are living and working mostly between Berlin and New York. Despite strong modernist references, stylistic classifications are of no importance in this show. The works are refreshingly unconcerned with the distinctions between “figuration”, “abstraction” and the “conceptual” and find another way to communicate their ideas and feelings about their subjects and the world around them. With colors dirty and drab, the absence of evident political commentary or shocking visuals, and an accent on the melancholic, the show is also reflection of the times we are living in right now.
modern modern creates aninteresting dialogue between the Chelsea Art Museum’s permanent abstract art collection and the elements of abstraction within the art works in the show.
modern modern includes: Amelie von Wulffen, Cecily Brown, Jonas Lipps, Elizabeth Peyton, Birgit Megerle, Dirk Bell, Charline von Heyl, Andro Wekua, Jutta Koether, Peter Kisur, Susanne Winterling, Kitty Kraus, Sergej Jensen, Peter Peri, Hayley Tompkins, Scott Olson, Gregor Hylla, Kerstin Brätsch, Silke Otto-Knapp, Nick Mauss, Paulina Olowska, Simone Gilges, Karl Holmqvist, Isa Genzken, Tobias Buche, Nina Rhode, Michaela Meise, Juliane Solmsdorf, Reto Pulfer, Falke Pisano, Nikolas Gambaroff, Ken Okiishi, John Giorno and The Honey Suckle Company.
Pati Hertling is a young German curator living and working in NYC. In 2005, together with Peter Kisur, she started Evas Arche und der Feminist; a monthly series combining one visual artist and one performer, soup, and community for one evening only. She has continued Evas Arche in NYC with Dutch Artist Marlous Borm since 2007, occurring one Sunday monthly upstairs at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on Leroy Street.
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