Marc Brandenburg
Michael Kunze
Sarah Lucas
Jonathan Meese
Tal R
Anselm Reyle
Gert & Uwe Tobias
The show presents over twenty works put together by Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin representing some of their most significant artistic positions. Spanning painting, mixed-media works, drawings, sculptures and photography, the exhibition offers a broad yet focused view on some of the most interesting artists today.
New art venue in Rostov-on-Don
(RU), opens on March 1, 2012.
First show featuring
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
with works by:
Marc Brandenburg
Michael Kunze
Sarah Lucas
Jonathan Meese
Tal R
Anselm Reyle
Gert & Uwe Tobias
After the opening of Perm Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008 and the young
Art Biennale of Yeketerinburg in 2010, another new Russian art project is being
established. Founded as a private initiative in 2009, 16th Line project in
Rostov-on-Don, the largest city in the South Federal Region of Russia, is
drawing international contemporary art lovers’ attention. In cooperation with
leading international galleries and under the direction of Tatyana Provorova,
16th Line aims at expanding the international art market in the South Federal
Region of Russia.
The 16th Line centre for contemporary art was initiated by private collector
Evgeny Samoylov. The new 4-story building – located on the name giving
“Line 16” in the city’s historic districts – offers more than 300sq space for public
art exhibitions. Next to the gallery rooms, the 16th Line complex features a
gourmet restaurant as well as an exclusive shop for art books and design
objects. As part of each exhibition, 16th Line organizes a series of lectures and
master classes created for the general public, moderated by top curators, artists
and art professionals.
“16th Line is not only a new venue for art enthusiasts and collectors in the
Rostov region”, says project initiator and international spokeswoman Maria
Sigutina: “In Rostov-on-Don we have created an exciting new venue for
presenting the latest positions of contemporary art. Here, we want to establish a
solid basis for the international art market. Hand in hand with each of our high-
end exhibitions, we are offering a broad art educational programme to the
public. With our team here and Berlin-based Russia expert Volker Diehl, who
supervises the project, we see a unique opportunity to bring high-end art works
to the region.”
For the first exhibition, opening March 2012, 16th Line presents over twenty
works put together by Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin representing some of
their most significant artistic positions. As Mark Gisbourne, author and Berlin
art expert puts it in the accompanying catalogue: “...the work expression is a
clue in itself, since much of the work exhibited by CFA revolves around systems
and theories of expression and creative performance. This is to say in general
that it is less conceptually based and more perceptually grounded. It naturally
follows that many of its artists are painters who extend the pictorial role of
perception rather than that of immediate conceptual abstraction. The distinction
is the desire to create an affect rather than just an intellectual effect.”
With works by Marc Brandenburg, Michael Kunze, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan
Meese, Tal R, Anselm Reyle and Gert & Uwe Tobias the opening show lays
the foundation for the high quality and profiled choices of the 16th Line art
programme, presenting highly aesthetical yet intellectually challenging works.
Spanning painting, mixed-media works, drawings, sculptures and photography,
the show offers a broad yet focused view on some of the most interesting artists
today.
Press Contact:
artpress – Ute Weingarten | Elisabethkirchstraße 15 | 10115 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 21961843 | E-Mail: artpress@uteweingarten.de
Image: Jonathan Meese: No Title (Jail Or Zeus/ Uwe Bohm), Photo on Canvas, painted,
159 x 100cm, Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts.
Thursday, March 1: Press Conference, 12 pm | Opening: 7 pm
] 16th LINE
16th Line 7a, South Federal District - Rostov on Don
Free admission