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Rheinische Post : Die sieben Überraschungen der Gerhard-Richter-Ausstellung (by Philipp Holstein)

Kurator Markus Heinzelmann hat die chronologisch gehängte Ausstellung „Verborgene Schätze“ genannt. Die Stücke stammen aus privaten Sammlungen rheinischer Kunstfreunde und von Unternehmen. Die meisten wollen anonym bleiben. Manche geben sich jedoch zu erkennen, der Fotokünstler Andreas Gursky etwa. Ihm gehört die „Weinernte“ von 1968, und darauf angesprochen, sagt er, Gerhard Richter sei für ihn eine „maßgebliche Inspiration“. Gerade die frühen Foto-Übermalungen hätten enormen Einfluss auf seine eigene künstlerische Entwicklung gehabt. Die meisten Bilder der Schau wurden selten, manche noch nie öffentlich gezeigt. Und natürlich stellt man sich vor, in welcher Umgebung sie wohl sonst hängen: Wohn- oder Esszimmer? Und wie ist es, unter einem Richter zu frühstücken? Manchmal lassen die Rahmen etwas von den Vorlieben der Besitzer erahnen.

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Telegraphi : The forbidden work of Shirin Neshat: The rebellious silence (by Katy Essel for the Guardian)

Dressed in a chador and holding the barrel of a gun in front of her face, a woman looks at us. It is defiant, determined, militant, courageous. The title of the work, "rebellious silence", evokes her quiet sense of power. Her steadfast gaze suggests conviction and trust. On its face, in handwritten Farsi, is a poem that focuses on feminism about the law enacted during the 1979 Iranian revolution that still today requires all Iranian women to wear veils in public. . "The written text is the voice of the photograph", said artist Shirin Neshat. "This breaks the silence of the quiet woman." [...] While Neshat's series is rooted in the women associated with the 1979 revolution, their gaze evokes the determination of today's female protesters. The fact that the work has been banned by Iran highlights the country's conservatism.

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Hyperallergic : Music of the Mind at Tate Modern was a memory bank of seven decades of the avant-garde artist’s career. (by Coco Picard)

By entering the show, one steps through Yoko Ono's gaze into a memory bank that includes seven-decades of her work [...] This reiterates Ono's premise : that the real aesthetic accomplishment exists primarily in one's own mind, or the mind of the viewer, even if that realization is catalyzed by material iterations-like a film, photograph, or performance.

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FAD Magazine : Parley for the Oceans x Rosemarie Trockel démodé AI driven print edition launch (by Mark Westall)

Rosemarie Trockel explores the fascinating intersections of technology, memory, and artistic intervention in her limited-edition prints for Parley for the Oceans. This new series, launching in collaboration with Cahiers d’Art, a French-based publishing house and gallery, timed to Art Basel Paris in October, showcases Trockel’s foray into her photographic archive, where she employs AI to generate three compelling new photographic portraits derived from her personal images. Each AI-generated portrait is screen-printed on Trockel’s drawings, complemented by the artist’s signature spray-painted motifs. These abstract elements disrupt and enhance the compositions, adding depth and intrigue.

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Cultured North East : Baltic turns to Yoko Ono to join in worldwide call for peace (by David Wethstone)

Yoko Ono is making a return to Baltic; not in person, as in 2008 when her work was the subject of a major exhibition at the Gateshead centre for contemporary art, but as an artistic presence. Her IMAGINE PEACE artwork, exhibited as part of that show, is being displayed again as a banner on the outside of the building to mark International Day of Peace on Saturday, September 21. With so much conflict dominating headlines, it can do no harm – whatever cynics might say - to pay heed to Yoko’s plea to “think peace, spread peace and act peace”. Baltic is marking the day with activities aimed at encouraging reflection on peace and unity. Visitors will be invited to add messages to a trio of Yoko-inspired Peace Trees and participate in creative writing workshops.

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Frankfurter Rundschau : Kunsthistoriker Schneede über Gerhard Richter: „Er hat sich nie dem Zeitgeist angeschlossen“ (by Lisa Berins)

Kunsthistoriker Uwe M. Schneede über den künstlerischen Eigensinn und das Erfolgsgeheimnis des Malers Gerhard Richter. "Es gibt sehr viele Veröffentlichungen über Gerhard Richter, häufig sind das Ausstellungskataloge und Publikationen zu einzelnen Werkaspekten. Ich habe mich mit meiner Monographie an eine übersichtliche, kompakte Darstellung des malerischen Gesamtwerks gemacht. Ich versuche, zu seinen komplexen und komplizierten großen Abstrakten hinzuführen und zu erläutern, warum sich Gerhard Richter nie auf einen Stil hat festlegen lassen wollen, sondern immer gleichzeitig in den verschiedenen Modi, figürlich und abstrakt, gearbeitet und sie gleichwertig behandelt hat."

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Monopol Magazine : Gerhard Richter in Düsseldorf Kein reines Land (by Alexandra Wach)

"Gerhard Richter: Verborgene Schätze", Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, bis 2. Februar 2025. Die chronologische Hängung lässt den Wechsel der Stile und Experimente bis 2017 nachvollziehen, dem Jahr, in dem sich Richter offiziell von der Malerei verabschiedet hatte (inzwischen ist er vom Rücktritt schon wieder teilweise zurückgetreten). Darunter findet man Landschaften, Tierporträts, Abstraktionen und auch die späten Farbverschlierungen des Malers, der sich im Laufe der Zeit offenbar alle Freiheiten nahm, die ihm die autoritäre DDR nie zugestanden hätte.

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Sarjah Arts : SAF presents William Kentridge’s 1st Major Solo Exh.

Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) is delighted to present "A Shadow of a Shadow" from 28 September to 8 December 2024, a comprehensive survey of 17 performances by William Kentridge spanning from the late 1980s to the present. Kentridge’s first major solo exhibition in the Middle East showcases a wide range of his work, from his interpretations of King Ubu—the outrageous protagonist from Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi [King Ubu] (1896)—to Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute (1791) alongside Kentridge’s original production The Head and the Load (2018) about Africa and Africans during World War I. Visitors will encounter a variety of objects and artworks produced for the development and presentation of Kentridge’s performance projects, including drawings, stage backdrops, animations, puppets, props, costumes and installations inspired by theatrical illusions.

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Prospect : How Gerhard Richter found the future in Düsseldorf (by Alexander Menden)

In the spring of 1961, Gerhard Richter, a young East German artist noted mainly for his portraits and socialist wall paintings, slipped through the last chink in the Iron Curtain—West Berlin—and fled to the Federal Republic of Germany. A few weeks later, he justified this move in a letter to his former teacher at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts: “My reasons are mainly professional. The whole cultural ‘climate’ of the West can offer me more, in that it corresponds better and more coherently with my way of being and working than that of the East.” [...] This development can now be witnessed in a new exhibition ‘Gerhard Richter: Hidden Gems’, at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf until 2nd February 2025. Dedicated to Richter’s relationship with his new home and, crucially, its affluent community of gallerists and collectors, it is aptly titled Verborgene Schätze (Hidden Gems). What makes it special is the fact that the works shown are, without exception, from private and corporate collections of the region. Many have never been seen in public before. [...] The 120 artworks shown encompass Richter’s whole production.

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Artforum : LOOMING LARGE Presentations of textile art in Washington, DC; New York; and Chicago (by K. L. H. Wells)

In art criticism covering exhibitions of decorative arts or crafts, the display of marginalized media such as textiles is often cast as a newsworthy novelty and even a subversive intervention in the world of fine art. As a trio of recent exhibitions demonstrate, however, textiles have been an important, elite, even “fine” art since at least the fourth century BCE. [...] The most ambitious of these exhibitions is “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction,” organized by Lynne Cooke at the National Gallery of Art. Previously on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and traveling to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Woven Histories” is described in its press release as a “landmark” show. Spanning a period from 1913 to the present, the exhibition encompasses approximately 150 objects by nearly sixty artists spread across seven thematic sections, including works of Rosemarie Trockel.

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Sortir à Paris : The Soul Trembles: Chiharu Shiota's reopening exhibition at the Grand Palais (by Graziella)

The Grand Palais reopens its doors after years of renovation with an exhibition, and not just any exhibition, ascontemporary art lovers eagerlyawait the return of this artist to Paris, Chiharu Shiota! The Japanese artist with the red thread returns from December 11, 2024 to March 19, 2025, to weave her web under the capital's most famous glass roof with her unique and poetic installation. Following on from"Memory Under The Skin" at Galerie Templon Grenier Saint-Lazare,"The Soul Trembles" explores the vulnerability of life through a monographic exhibition co-organized with Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, the most important on the artist. The Grand Palais, in a preview to the reopening of its galleries in June 2025, is hosting seven monumental installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, performance videos and archival documents relating to his staging project and his 20-year career.

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Clash : Yoko Ono: Music Of The Mind

Yoko Ono has lived a life without boundaries. A Japanese woman who made her voice heard around the globe, she refused to let the barriers of race, class, or gender impede her message. A true cross-disciplinary artist, she has transformed her life into a near century-long creative practise. A ground-breaking visual artist. A profoundly influential musician. A peace activist across multiple decades. Yoko Ono is a by-word in freedom. Walking around London’s incredible new career-spanning exhibition Yoko Ono: Music Of The Mind at the Tate Modern, you’re struck by the sheer wonder, and the undaunted veracity by which she approaches art. A stunning display of virtuoso innovation, the awesome range of her creative force is enhanced by her unique ability never to repeat herself.

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