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chocolate, what else.
the rolf ricke collection
April 26 – June 21, 2003 |
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An exhibition realized
in collaboration with the New Museum Nuremberg.
60ies and 70ies so-called new sculpture from the USA and
the preoccupation with painting from the 1990ies onward form the
backbone of the collection established by the German gallery owner
and collector Rolf Ricke. The collection, on permanent loan at the
New Museum Nuremberg since 2002, comprises 66 artists overall and
more than 200 objects. It abounds in big names and outstanding
works. Rolf Ricke, who has been a gallery owner and collector for
forty years, to this day is one of the most important mediators
introducing contemporary American art to Germany and Europe.
Numerous well-known artists from the US had their first European
exhibitions at his gallery, among them Richard Serra and Keith
Sonnier. And Ricke’s angle on America is not limited to New York
alone. The spectrum extends as far as the latest trends in
Californian painting.
The exhibition at the Kunstraum Innsbruck highlights the emphasis
accorded the language of the objects and materials used: mass and
weight, texture and tactile qualities, colour, reflection of light
and surface structure on the one hand, and connotations of
function and imagery on the other. One of the focal points will be
groups of works by Bill Bollinger and Barry Le Va presented side
by side with objects by Richard Artschwager, Joe Baer, Dan Flavin,
Donald Judd, Gary Kuehn, Lee Lozano, Richard Serra and Keith
Sonnier. The second part of the exhibition will take a look at
installation painting: Elizabeth Cooper, Fabian Marcaccio, Carl
Ostendarp, Steven Parrino, David Reed, Günter Umberg and recent
Californian painting by Ingrid Calame, Amy Green, and Steven Hull.
I would like to show that art really is quite simple. It is
readable. Whatever it may be about -–one can see very clearly how
something is made. And that’s what I appreciate in art. (Rolf
Ricke)
| sponsored by:
Stadt Innsbruck, Land Tirol, Bundeskanzleramt Sektion Kunst,
Tourismusverband Innsbruck und seine Feriendörfer. Der Kunstraum Innsbruck
ist Ö1-Club-Partner. |
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The exhibition is supported by Wulz AV Center.
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