Rainer Fetting: "Flowers &"

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Rainer Fetting achieved international success with the “Neue Wilden” in the early 1980s. Probably no movement in German painting history after 1945 has been so celebrated and at the same time so discredited as the so-called “violent painting” of West Berlin in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fetting's painting, which with its expressionist painting against the conventions of abstract and conceptual art was formed towards the end of the 1970s, is highly topical again today. His art is a crucial pioneer for “queer” discourses about gender, identity, the individual and power, which not only shape the younger generations of the globalized art business, but also the current debates in the mainstream. Fetting's "expressive" portraits, Cityscapes and landscapes and, as in this exhibition in focus, still lifes and flower pictures capture psychosocial energies, which are shown in the paintings in every painterly decision. On show are partly unpublished works from four decades, early drawing studies, paintings from the 80s and 90s, in which Fetting commuted between New York and Berlin, as well as pictures, works on paper and sculptures from recent years. As part of the exhibition, a publication will be published by Hatje & Cantz, including texts by Oliver Koerner von Gustorf and Norman Rosenthal Paintings from the 80s and 90s, in which Fetting commuted between New York and Berlin, as well as pictures, works on paper and sculptures from recent years. As part of the exhibition, a publication will be published by Hatje & Cantz, including texts by Oliver Koerner von Gustorf and Norman Rosenthal Paintings from the 80s and 90s, in which Fetting commuted between New York and Berlin, as well as pictures, works on paper and sculptures from recent years. As part of the exhibition, a publication will be published by Hatje & Cantz, including texts by Oliver Koerner von Gustorf and Norman Rosenthal.