Exhibition

Open Days / New Shows: Ovidiu ANTON | Case Study / Border Monument

28 May 2021 – 31 Jul 2021

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 16:00
Sunday
Closed

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Open Days / New Shows: Ovidiu ANTON | Case Study / Border Monument
Opening Days: Friday, May 28, 11 am - 6 pm + Saturday, May 29, 11 am - 4 pm
Exhibitions on view until July 31, 2021

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There is a lot of negativity, or at least: passive aggression in the abstract expressionist tradition - as well as a dark humor connected with decisive, extreme behaviour. Mark Rothko's Seagram paintings were famously painted to make rich customers feel unwell. Agnes Martin withdrew from New York, because the building she lived in was going to be demolished. She praised Rothko's having reached zero. Sol LeWitt changed to white because black was too expressive. Martin, like the poet Laura Riding, had an existentialist and radical take on life. In the work of both, non-production has an important place, a provocation bitter and fragile. Being women producers, both were radical and skeptical and painfully aware of the hypocritical mechanisms that failed to let them play along. They were in no danger of being over-marketed like LeWitt. Failure is familiar and conceptually close for women and immigrants, whose relation to establishment seems to remain perpetually unestablished. In any case, it was Jewish-Russian immigrants who brought avant-garde art to the US.  (>> read more: https://christinekoeniggalerie.com/exhibitions/36357/ovidiu-anton-case-study-border-monument/about/)

(quot. after Ann Cotten, 2021)

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Ovidiu Anton

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