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17/7/2004

Two exhibitions

Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf

Hans Rogalla
18th July - 15th August 2004
Die Welt muss schöner werden (The world must become more beautiful)

With the artistic works of the late Hans Rogalla (1946-1986) the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is presenting a remarkable oeuvre, in which pictorial visions and both political and erotic themes feature strongly.

Almost twenty years after Rogalla's untimely death the provocative nature of his fragmentary work continues to wield its power. His creative output comprised scetches and actions and a few large-scale paintings. After preliminary studies at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, he was tutored by Renato Guttuso in Rome for a time before taking up studies at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. In a period of intense political and artistic ferment during the 1960s and '70s, Rogalla could be found at the intercept point of those contemporary activities, for example in Beuys' class and the groups LIDL and YIUP in particular.

The political and artistic climate of that time threw this son of strict and pious parents back upon his own obsessions: Hans Rogalla's creative output was erotically fixated upon the human body as well as upon visions of both desire and of torment. At a time when erotic magazines were only available under-the-counter, Rogalla gave free rein to his imagination. In the style of the Neue Sachlickeit (New Sobriety) he recorded those ''hot images'' which manically obsessed him. The sexual sphere was experienced here in a personal way; and at the same time, the concomitant socially explosive character of taboo-breaking was also acknowledged. Although the period of revolt around 1968 had firmly placed ''sexual liberation'' on the agenda, nevertheless it did not spare that generation from the constricting moral values and received norms of the time.

In Beuys' class at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Rogalla's drawings were and continued to be the provocative, deprecated and yet admired works of an outsider. "The world must become more beautiful!" Such was Rogalla's programmatic exhortation in his eponymous YIUP print of 1970, calling for the very thing he himself had already initiated: the combination of the aesthetic and the political in art.

Curators: Robert Hartmann and Stephan von Wiese

Publication relating to the exhibition: Hans Rogalla. Die Welt muss schöner werden, edited by Stephan von Wiese and Robert Hartmann, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne.

Notice:
Sunday, 18th July 2004, 6 p.m. Artists, contemporaries and friends remember Hans Rogalla in an open forum. Moderated by Stephan von Wiese

The exhibition ''Hans Rogalla'' will be shown at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe between 18th September and 14th November 2004.

At the same time in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf:

Besides, popularity is a rather lumpy concept, no? (Sturtevant)
SITE magazine + hausammeer productions
18th July – 15th August 2004

Bearing the SITE label and in conjunction with hausammeer productions, Düsseldorf artists Petra Rinck and Ralf Brög have devised an exhibition especially for the Kunsthalle. The exhibition is at once a situationally specific application, development and extrapolation of previous SITE projects in response to the spatial peculiarities of the Kunsthalle. The exhibition rooms of the Kunsthalle are perceived as an integrated whole and are structured, dynamized and dramatized by means of artistic interventions. The quotation in the title alluding to the practice of ''popular'' concepts for exhibitions is taken from an interview with the artist Elaine Sturtevant, which appeared in the magazine SITE 7.

SITE is a project devoted to the ''use, creation, shaping and allocation of structures'' in the service of the production and presentation of art. The magazine SITE is published at irregular intervals and is conceived as an exhibition space in the form of a conceptually structured print medium. Founded in 2003, hausammeer productions is dedicated to the experimental development of forms of presentation and production models; concrete, practice-oriented aspects of art production are paramount here in relation to SITE.

The exhibition, held in conjunction with artists, authors and scientists, will be divided into four key areas: work on walls, work on floors, space for installations and hollow sphere.

The work on walls ­– undertaken by five artists – investigates the potential ''room for manoeuvre'' open to artistic endeavour viewed from various individual points of departure. Drawing on diverse intellectual and scientific areas, the work on floors combines contributions on the topic of the ''Representation of Pattern'', at the same time reflecting the desire for an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in the quest for relevant points of reference.

The space for installations features four sculptures and projections of great presence developed according to completely different, individual parameters. These contributions refer back – in concentrated form – to SITE’s conceptual methods of working, as well as to the work on walls and floors. The phenomenon of special forms of space used as starting point for unusual art productions is examined by means of soundscapes in a hollow sphere. The participating musicians were asked to modulate their sounds within the hollow sphere and in such a way chart the interaction of sound and space.

Contributions from: Matthew Brannon, Ralf Brög, Elke Denda, Oswald Egger, Stefan Hostettler, Rupert Huber, Simone Hülser, Markus Karstiess, Aleksandra Konopek, Denise Lasagni, Darryl Moore, Wilhelm Mundt, Richard Nicolaus, Sarah Pelikan, Cornelius Quabeck, Petra Rinck, Thomas Roppelt, Wilhelm Scharnowell, Stefan Schneider, Hartwig Schwarz, Michael Schwarz, Volker Seifried, Sturtevant, Joseph Suchy, Piotr Zamojski, Friedrich und Erhard Zauner.

http://www.sitesite.de

Image: Installation in the exhibition

At the same time in the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf: ''e.V. - OHIO'' Grabbeplatz 4, 40213 Düsseldorf

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz 4, D-40213 Düsseldorf
Opening hours: Tues - Sat 12 - 7 p.m., Sun 11 a.m. - 6 p.m

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