life on
mars
55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
Audio/Video Library
Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
Posted 10|13|08
Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
Posted 09|29|08
Remainder, a new process/performance by Attack Theatre: Phase one
Posted 09|23|08
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Artists
Friedrich Kunath
Born: 1974, Chemnitz, Germany
Lives and Works: Cologne, Germany
A sense of charmed awkwardness and bittersweet tragicomedy infuses Friedrich Kunath's work. The tone of his titles, and the phrases that often are spelled out in his work, play a prominent role in an artistic practice that has encompassed drawing and painting, video and photography, sculpture and books. His works speak to universal experiences of yearning, disappointment, and discovery. His tentative outlines and bright yet transparent washes of color convey a simplicity or informality of means that is suggestive and beguiling. Abstraction and representation comfortably cohabitate in Kunath's expressionistic worlds. The artist's melancholy-prone art possesses the gentlest of self-deprecating humor and expresses a longing for human connection and revelation. What accumulates through the sentiments of apparent failure and futility is, in part, a playful projection of an artist-persona that is a world-weary solipsist, a hopeless hero, and a lost soul.
Links: Review of Friedrich Kunath exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery