Gerhard Ruhm
dal 16/1/2008 al 29/2/2008
Segnalato da
16/1/2008
Gerhard Ruhm
Christine Konig Galerie, Wien
JETZT - works of 6 decades. From the very beginning, Ruhm has employed the use of various media in an effort to search new forms of artistic expression. He has exceeded, and thereby enhanced certain limits of poetry, as to performing arts (visual poetry, gestural and conceptual drawings, fotomontages, bookobjects) and to music.
born in 1930 in Vienna. Lives in Cologne and Vienna. Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (piano and composition), afterwards privately under Josef Matthias Hauer. Gerhard Rühm immersed himself in oriental music during his stay in the Lebanon. During the mid 50s he was one of the founding members of the “Wiener Gruppe” – the “Viennese Group” (Achleitner, Artmann, Bayer, Rühm, Wiener). From 1972 to 1995 teaching activity at the Hamburg Superior School of Art. 1991 Austrian State Prize.
Numerous exhibitions e.g.: Generali Foundation Vienna, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, New Gallery Graz, Museum of the Twentieth Century Vienna, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, The House of Art Munich, Cathedral Museum Salzburg, Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Kunsthalle Wien, Fridericianum Kassel.
Austrian contribution at the Venice Biennale 1997: “Die Wiener Gruppe” curated by Peter Weibel.
From the very beginning, Rühm has employed the use of various media in an effort to search new forms of artistic expression. While being emphatic on the Baroque/Expressionism/Dada language, he has exceeded, and thereby enhanced certain limits of poetry, as to performing arts (visual poetry, gestural and conceptual drawings, fotomontages, bookobjects) and to music (auditory poetry as speech- and audiotape-texts, chansons, documentary melodramas, vocal ensembles, conceptual piano pieces such as text/sound-transformations).
Gerhard Rühm has also significantly contributed to the “new radio play” (German Prize of Radio Plays of the War-Blind in 1983).
His interests tend to follow a cyclical pattern. It’s not surprising then that he again took up visual work which ranges from visual poetry to visual music and with gestural and automatic drawings, lifesize drawings of the body, fotomontages, collages, frottages, book-objects, silhouettes, ink etc. in between.
5 volumes of the works of Gerhard Rühm are published at the Parthas Verlag, Berlin:
auditive poetry / plays / visual poetry / visual music / poems
http://www.parthasverlag.de
Opening: 17th January 2008, 19 - 21 p.m.
Christine Konig Galerie
Schleifmuhlgasse 1A - Vienna
Free admission