Two exhibitions
dal 22/2/2011 al 7/5/2011
Segnalato da
22/2/2011
Two exhibitions
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
The David LaChapelle solo exhibition presents the series 'Earth Laughs in Flowers', referred to art-historical visual traditions. The large-format still lifes take up the principle of exaggeration that characterized the portraits of celebrities. Sculptures, wall pieces and drawings by Julian Gothe in his solo exhibition combine the minimal distance and rigor of modernist tendencies since the 1920s with opposing gestures of a "playful love of form".
David LaChapelle
Earth Laughs in Flowers
In the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany of works by the American photographer David LaChapelle (*1964), the kestnergesellschaft presents a series of new, not yet shown photographs. The series Earth Laughs in Flowers, which was created this year, refers to art-historical visual traditions but never loses sight of LaChapelle’s own artistic language.
The large-format still lifes in this series, with titles such as The Lovers, Concerning the Soul, Risk or America, seamlessly take up the principle of exaggeration that characterized the portraits of celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson, Björk or David Bowie through which LaChapelle himself has become famous since the 1990s. The portraits always contained art-historical references, along with a fear of emptiness, a love of bad taste, an ugly beauty, but David LaChapelle’s recent works now show an explicit compositional affinity to Baroque floral still lifes. Plants, fruits and objects, in place of human bodies, now bear witness to human pride, to the finiteness of life with its obsessions and compulsions, to pleasure and suffering…
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Julian Göthe
The shadows took shape
The kestnergesellschaft presents a solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Julian Göthe (*1966). His sculptures, wall pieces and drawings combine the minimal distance and rigor of modernist tendencies since the 1920s with opposing gestures of a playful love of form. Göthe’s work is situated within a very wide-ranging frame of references that can encompass the artistic and pop-cultural expressive forms of the 20th century and 16th/17th-century Mannerism.
In the kestnergesellschaft Julian Göthe shows a spatial installation at whose centre is a series of black sculptural works which give the impression of hybrid creatures that could have originated from furniture design, decoration or film and stage design. In their blackness and lack of function they come across as shadow-like symbols that command the attention through their sheer volume. But at the same time they also need to be charged with meaning…
Image: David LaChapelle, Intervention (from the series Jesus is My Homeboy) 2008, 182.9 x 279.4 cm. © David LaChapelle
Courtesy Fred Torres Collaborations; Galerie Rafael Jablonka, Köln
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Press preview: February 23, 2011 at 11 am. The artists David LaChapelle and Julian Göthe will be present
Kestnergesellschaft
Goseriede 11 - Hannover
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