Bøger af Susanne Gaensheimer

Clenched, raw and pressingly urgent: Chaïm Soutine's vivid paintings are testimonies to a sense of human vulnerability and an existence on the margins of society. Intensely colored, his meaty impasto portraits are thrown onto the canvas with broad brushstrokes, while his agitated, frenetic landscapes and paintings of slaughtered animals are expressions of an intense hunger for life and, at the same time, a deep alienation in an unsteady world that offers no support. Despite the recognition his work received, Soutine remained an outsider throughout his life, a stranger to the social manners of his adopted home in France. This catalogue focuses on the early masterpieces and series he created between 1919 and 1925: Under the overarching theme of emigration and uprooting, the contributions reveal the traces of Soutine's Jewish origins in his work, illuminating the significance of his motifs from the fringes of society as well as of blood and animal carcasses as metaphors; and show the influences of Soutine's art up to the present day. CHAÏM SOUTINE (1893 - 1943) grew up in a shtetl near Minsk - a youth marked by poverty, religious rigor and social exclusion. In 1913 he arrived in Paris and moved into the artist residence "La Ruche" (the "Beehive"), working alongside artists such as Chagall and Modigliani. Fleeing the Nazis, he died in 1943, but the international attention his work had received since the 1920s continued to have great influence on post-war art, inspiring Abstract Expressionism, new figurative painting as well as contemporary artists.

Carsten Nicolai (geb. 1965, lebt in Berlin) arbeitet seit den frühen 1990er Jahren an der Schnittstelle von bildender Kunst, Musik und Naturwissenschaften. Mit elektronischem Klang- und Lichtmaterial erzeugt er minimalistische Installationen, Sound-Performances und Darstellungen von physikalischen Phänomenen, die Systeme und Strukturen der Medienwelt reflektieren.Als Musiker ist Nicolai unter dem Pseudonym Alva Noto einer der bekanntesten Vertreter der zeitgenössischen elektronischen Musik. Seit seiner Teilnahme an der documenta X (1997) und an den Venedig-Biennalen 2001 und 2003 wird er auch als bildender Künstler weltweit ausgestellt. Begleitend zu Nicolais Ausstellung im Untergeschoss findet auf der Piazza von K21 eine Reihe von elektronischen Live-Konzerten und Performances statt.Das K21 zeigt im Herbst eine Übersichtsausstellung des Künstlers und Musikers.Text: Susanne Gaensheimer, Doris Krystof, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Kittler, Kathrin Dreckmann, Verena Meis, Linda Walther