Dirk Bell
dal 18/5/2011 al 17/9/2011
Segnalato da
18/5/2011
Dirk Bell
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
The artist utilises the most varied and seemingly conflicting pictorial languages in his installations, paintings and drawings. The new steel sculpture, Freee Love, specially created for the Pinakothek der Moderne, forms the centrepiece of Dirk Bell's first comprehensive museum exhibition. Free Love places the words Free and Love in a context that can be physically experienced, with love and freedom appearing as opposing forces.
Curated by Bernhart Schwenk
The artist Dirk Bell (*1969) utilises the most varied and seemingly conflicting pictorial languages in his installations, paintings and drawings. These range from Symbolism, Jugendstil and Minimal Art to contemporary popular culture. A preoccupation with the various materials and aesthetic forms of these movements, i.e. with their external strucutures, corresponds to a critical analysis of their respective agendas. Abstract concepts and their figurative attributions are exposed and given ambivalent interpretations.
The new steel sculpture,»FREE LOVE«, specially created for the Pinakothek der Moderne, forms the centrepiece of Dirk Bell’s first comprehensive museum exhibition. »FREE LOVE« places the words »FREE« and »LOVE« in a context that can be physically experienced, with »love« and »freedom« appearing as opposing forces. The minimalistic sculpture acts as a leitmotiv throughout this first overview of the artist’s work to date, that now covers a period of 20 years. Dirk Bell has devised this retrospective as a kind of description of a route, on the look-out for new paths but always returning to familiar places.
Following solo exhibitions and participation in shows in London (Sadie Coles HQ), Basel (Museum für Gegenwartskunst), Berlin (Schinkel Pavillon), Baden-Baden (Staatliche Kunsthalle) and Bergen (Bergen Kunsthall), this exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne is the artist’s first in his native city.
A monograph of Dirk Bell’s work is to be published in mid September and will be presented at the exhibition.
Image: Dirk Bell | Amaia, 2007, installation in multiple parts , Photo: Ellen Page Wilson, New York
Courtesy: BQ, Berlin; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London;
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Further information and images are available by calling Tine Nehler Phone + 49 89 23805-1321 or via E-mail at presse@pinakothek.de
Press Preview 18.05.2011, 11h
Opening 19.05.2011, 19h
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Strasse 40, Munich
Daily except MON 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
THU 10.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m.