ART ZURICH ARCHIVE
10th International Fair of 20th & 21st Century Art
Kongresshaus Zurich, Switzerland
After the impact points of the last years (Australia, South America, South Korea, China, Africa...), this year’s highlight is obviously the Sundaram Tagore Gallery with contemporary art from India.
The Sundaram Tagore Gallery (New York, Beverly Hills, Hongkong) dedicates its work to the global transmission of art and the intercultural exchange with all disciplines of plastic art, but also with poetry, literature, performance, film and music. During the ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH, Sundaram Tagore shows actual Indian art in context with art from other countries and presents international renowned artists in a specially organized exhibition. Quotation by Sundaram Tagore: „In a world where communication is instant and cultures are colliding and melding as never before, our goal is to provide venues for art that transcend boundaries of all sorts.”
Also this year, an important place will be devoted to the contemporary art from Korea.
Gallery Jung (Seoul) has been present eight years in a row. This gallery usually organizes in Seoul wide international exhibitions in great style, among other Korea-India or China-Taiwan-Korea exchange exhibitions. In ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH, the Gallery Jung presents 13 artists, who show in their meditative works the dynamism of Korea and the secret power of national mysteries, putting together various generations of Korean artists, with modern or traditional techniques. This gallery promotes artist groups and young artists.
The Hari Gallery (Seoul) comes also for the fourth time and presents this year in Zurich young Korean avant-garde. This gallery presents art in a more individual view - even in the further continuation of historical forerunners – due to the democratic information society in which the protagonists are living now. Traditional techniques and modern points of view are associated in such a rapid alternation, that it is now too early to classify the young Korean art stage.
The Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Anna-Maria Burger (Munich) shows Shona-stone sculptures from Zimbabwe in a contemporary context. The changing effect between African and European art became a source of inspiration for renowned artists of the early 20th century, like Barlach or Picasso, for subject matter as well as for form sensibility. This fact makes these actual stone sculptures so interesting also for our European art stage. These peculiar and attractive stone sculptures are now exhibited in renowned museums and galleries.
Camera Work (Berlin) presents a face to face between contemporary and modern classic photographs. The focus of the photographs is situated around architecture, landscape, portrait, fashion and reportage, but confronted to rare vintage works by different icons of photography. Through works of Walker Evans, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson or Diane Airbus, Camera Work illustrates the transformation of photography and a changing use of this medium. The Galerie Camera Work also works together with other international galleries and museums and manages the Museum „The Kennedys“ at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin.
In the spirit of the 1920s, the Galerie Brockstedt (Hamburg and Berlin) presents figurative painting and sculpture parallel to non figurative positions. As in the past, the artists represent their statements and points of view in the most different ways and techniques, to whose presentation the Galerie Brockstedt - already in its second generation – devoted its life. This gallery has existed since 1958 and became famous, among others, through the works of expressionist artists (such as Marc Chagall, Alexej Jawlensky, Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff), artists of the new objectivity (Otto Dix, George Grosz, Franz Radziwill, Christian Schad, inter alia) and works of the Cologne Progressive Artists Group (Gerd Arntz, Otto Freundlich, Heinrich Hoerle und Franz Seiwert). The Galerie Brockstedt also administrates the legacy of Horst Janssen, Ivo Hauptmann, Paul Joostens and Richard Oelze. Next to the main highlights of the classic moderns - essentially from the first three decades of the 20th century - the Galerie Brockstedt presents a wide range of postwar realists (Johannes Grützke, Francesco Lopez, Isabel Quintanilla, Annette Schröter, Reinhard Stangl, Diether Kressel, Bruno Bruni, Friedrich Meckseper, inter alia), German informal artists (Willi Baumeister, Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Emil Schumacher) and contemporary abstract artists (Mark Safan, Jupp Linssen, Gust Romijn).
The German stamm.GALERIE is an invitation to relive the instantaneous effect of concrete art, convincing through rhythmic balance and a stringent limitation in the design.
The Galerie Uli Lang (Biberach) has been located in a 500 year old house in the centre of the town since 1975. It is running a forum for contemporary art with changing exhibitions. The metal sculptor Brad Howe (Los Angeles) is a permanent guest in this gallery.
The Kro Art Gallery (Vienna) undertakes the task of presenting international and national positions and ways of observing current themes. Kro Art Gallery presents successful artists and supports selected talents.
Mesy Gallery (Linz) shows the Austrian painter Margit J. Füreder. In relation with movies, retaining apparently unimportant moments, she reprocesses the subject with the camera or with the computer, before creating a picture out of it. Her special view isolates, transforms and makes visible things that eyes normally don't see.
A lot of works from the Gallery Chicory (Alkmaar, Netherlands) are now in museums and private collections. For our Zurich Art Fair, it takes works by David Giorgadze, Anton Kitzmüller, Sergey Tyukanov, Hildegard Wagner-Harms, Jörg Zimmermann and other artists.
Latvian art has been supported since 1986 by Anna Sausverde-Ellger and her German gallery Art Promotion 02 (Liebshausen). The gallery organizes exhibition series in Riga, New York, London and Peking. It catches current euphoric moods in the Baltic States, which develops dynamic energy and creativity. Such as in the painting and graphics by Patricija Brekte: The young artist became internationally famous just after her exam in the Riga Academy of Arts. The city as a social and artistic discovery space has become the epicentre of her present creative works.
Galerie In Art, (Aichtal / Stuttgart) has shown since 1994 mainly young painters from Ukraine and Tadzhikistan, such as Serhiy Savchenko, Anna Krivolap, Elena Habicher and Melanka Herbut.
Red Corridor Gallery (Fulda) presents different encounters giving the main point to social and sociocritical themes. Inspired by Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti, the sculptor Rudi Neuland shows in all his works a wide range of pictorial forms. Also in sculpture, in bronze casting, the artist develops a versatile form language, abstract as well as figurative. Further artists represented in our Art Fair: Joanna Skurska, Leszek Skurski , Anna Will.
ID Exhibition Hall (Riga) presents artists from Russia and Latvia, like A. Naumovs, D.Muratovs and A.Majevskis. Also from Latvia comes the Gallery Bastejs (Riga), for the second time in Zurich.
The young gallery In Dubio Pro Arte (Hamburg) shows works by the photo artist Johannes Pickert, impressive through their peculiar perspectives, colours and atmospheric density. Whereas the works of the comic strip artist Christian Meyer are characterized by the curious and fanciful tightness of the motifs. The drawings live thanks to the permanent discovery and are never boring.
"Day Images 2008" from the gallery Ost-West Art (Cologne) show the concept artist Agii Gosse who is painting each day of the current year a new work with a felt pen. She finds her themes in daily politics and in seasonal events. At the end of each year, she produces a wall with 365 works. A selection is available on the Art Zurich.
The Fischerplatz Galerie (Ulm) has in its programme important artists such as Elvira Bach, Eduardo Chillida, Niki de Saint Phalle and Günther Uecker. In Zürich, it presents the sculptor Thomas Röthel.
The Hamburg’s Menssen Gallery presents Karsten Hein and his recent work based on coloured cinetic art. He owes his artistic orientation to the encounter with Richard Paul Lohse. Since 1970, Karsten Hein has impressed constructive and three-dimensional art lovers in numerous single and group exhibitions.
This section proposes a springboard for artists as “one person show”:
Carmen Briciu-Moldovanu, Alexandra Cina, Gabriella Di Salvo, Sonja Götz,
Walter Kaufmann, Magdolna Keel, Frank Peter Linnartz, Helga Matzner,
Erna Odermatt, Horst Rainer, Ingrid Roth, Patrick & Christoph Thür, Jeanette Werren
European sculptors exhibit current works:
Wolfgang Auer, Fritz Dold, Peter Fischer, Anton Kurka, Ernesto Marques, Eddy Roos, Max Seiz, Monika Siebmanns, Jacqueline Urbach, Daniel Votta
Three young Swiss photographs show their creations in various categories:
Under the title “Dancing Queens“the Bernese photograph Yolanda Di Mambro has created a range out of the elements extravagance, erotism and provocation. The picture series about artists in self production unites pop art and pop culture (MTV generation), aiming the abolition of boundary lines between fine arts and commercial design (advertising).
Patrick Lachenmeier presents the „New Icescape-photography“: Ice landscape as closeup views with surrealistic impact and high contrasts characterize his pictures. Ice landscapes are usually processed only photographically, reproducing the reality in a naturalistic way. Patrick Lachenmeier combines closeup views, colour effects and high contrasts, creating exciting pictures with high aesthetic content, so that the public rediscovers the elements ice and nature in a new way.
Rolf Müllestein: Zurich is a vital city and is hosting a multitude of sights, world famous from different perspectives. Photographing these perspectives atmospherically in black and white is Rolf Müllestein’s passion.
ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH
26th Contemporary Art Fair
11 - 13 October 2024
Zurich Convention Center
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