RIKAKO KAWAUCHI
„Food, animals, organs, plants, bodies etc, everything outside me is everywhere in the air. I breathe them in, I breathe them out“ • Paintings & Watercolors
Until Saturday, October 26
The German-French couple Franz and Nadia van der Grinten opened the Van der Grinten Gallery in Cologne in 2002. Their program includes photography, painting, drawing, works on paper, sculpture by German and international young and established artists.
In the sixth annual Made in Düsseldorf exhibition, photographic works from the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf collection by Janice Guy, Martina Sauter, Elger Esser, Anna Vogel, Eileen Quinlan and Frauke Dannert will be on display until October 27, 2024.
July, 6 to September, 29 2024 – free entrance
Book to the show: Elger Esser, Lacus Rubresus
104 pages with texts by Sylvain Prudhomme, published by Maison des Arts de Bages and Bernard Chauveau
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For Rikako Kawauchi ‘s second exhibition at our gallery, we are showing her oil painting for the first time, in tandem with a selection of the latest drawings on paper. In contrast to the clear, light and airy drawings, in which the forms float and breath in the often empty space of the pristine paper, Kawauchi’s oil paintings display a strong physical presence: in the thick, fresh layers of colorful material that form the weighty, abstract foundation, the palette knife is used to carve out motives that nevertheless transport the same somatic energy as the thin, minimalistic lines drawn on paper.
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The idea for the current exhibition came when taking a closer look at the work of Roy Mordechay and Frans Roermond. One thing the two artists have in common in that they are both deeply influenced by artworks well beyond their immediate purview.
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A selection of about 40 original vintae prints by Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917-1986) shows once again the faboulous quality of this master of architecture photography.
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The current exhibition includes new works from all of Neufanger’s oeuvre and also presents his extensive oeuvre of posters, posters, printed matter and books.