Andre Butzer
Untitled, 2007
New Art From Germany
Saatchi Gallery
As long as you can manage to rush through the first room of the Saatchi Exhibit "Gesamtkunstverk" which I found quite dreary, you will be good. Each artist's work has been given great open space to breathe its own life. Although I think the title of the exhibit sounds a bit "dated" the work is all from the the last 10 years. We bought the Saatchi book "Germania" a few years ago (my husband is German after all), and most of the artists in the book are represented here, but it is always a lot more amusing to see the pieces in real.
Unfortunately, though I am only able to do what the book did for me, to show images. But here at least you can be given a little glimpse of what the German Artists (or artists living in Germany) are up to these days:
Andre Butzer
Ahnenbild 2411, 2006
Andre Butzer with Street Art meets murals, meets Abstract Expressionism.
Andre Butzer
Untitled, 2007
Isa Genzken
Mutter mit kind, 2004
Kinder filtern I, 2005
"There is nothing worse in art than, "You see it and you know it"... That's a certainty I don't like."
-Isa Genzken (Saatchi)
Isa Genzken
Bouquet, 2004
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Untitled, 2009
Gert & Uwe are twin brothers and was born in Brasov, Romania, but live now in Cologne.
Their flimsical, metric, folkloric, and fun canvases definitely helps bringing joy into your life (even though there are dashes of morbidity).
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Untitled, 2007
Ida Ekblad
Loop, 2010
Dusty Dry On The Tongue Swallowed Some, 2010
Ida Ekblad was born in Oslo (Norway), but she live and work both in Berlin and Oslo.
"Painting to me combines expressions of rhythm, poetry, scent, emotion... It offers ways to articulate the spaces between words, and I cannot be concerned with its death, when working at it makes me feel so alive. - Ida Ekblad (Saatchi)
Ida Ekblad
Organ Invention, 2010
Alexandra Bircken
Drape, 2007
Julia Koether
Leibhaftige Malerei, 2007
Insert - Leibhaftige Malerei
Alexandra Bircken
Unit 1, 2008
Georg Herold
Untitled, 2010
These sculptures are quite breathtaking but are they reclining or are they being pulled?
Georg Herold
Untitled, 2011
Thomas Zipp
Schwarze Ballons, 2005
Thomas Zipp
World Kantzler Office, 2004
Max Frisinger
Noah's Ark (CocoRoasie), 2010
(Front) Thomas Kiesewetter
I have a little bit of news today as well, I put an offer in for a lease on a Gallery space. Nearly holding my breath while I am waiting for an answer:) Wish me luck!!!
With Love
Kristin
