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Neo Rauch at the Met: para Opens in New York |
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Neo Rauch, Jagdzimmer [Hunter’s room], 2007, Oil on canvas, 43 ¼ x 63 in. Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin & David Zwirner, New York. © Neo Rauch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Uwe Walter.
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NEW YORK.-Neo Rauch at the Met: para presents eleven new paintings made specifically for this exhibition by the artist Neo Rauch (b. 1960, Leipzig, Germany), one of the most widely acclaimed painters of his generation. The exhibition on view from May 22 through September 23, 2007 is the third in the Museums series dedicated to artists at mid-career, following exhibitions featuring Tony Oursler in 2005 and Kara Walker in 2006.
Shaped by the experience of growing up in East Germany, Rauchs paintings teeter between Surrealism and popular imagery, defying easy interpretation. Viewers are drawn into scenes replete with strange beings and ambiguous landscapes. Full of activity yet mysteriously static in feeling, Rauchs paintings are fantasy painted as fact, and many of his large-format works are populated by figures that are connected spatially, yet remain alienated and unaware of each other. With a distinctive palette of bright acidic colors contrasting with deep shadows, the artists paintings conjure up an atmosphere of confused nostalgia and failed utopias.
Rauch has said, For me, painting means the continuation of a dream with other means. The artist is inspired by misplaced memories and momentary perceptions that are lost before they can be named. In this vein, Rauch has titled his exhibition at the Met para. Although there are many familiar elements in the parallel world of Rauchs paintings, the situations depicted are bizarre and the normal is mixed freely with the abnormal.
Trained at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Rauch continues to live and work in the city of his birth, and has inspired a younger generation of painters in Leipzigs thriving artistic community. Rauchs work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2006); Musée dart contemporain de Montreal, Canada (2006); Albertina, Vienna, Austria (2004); Saint Louis Art Museum (2003); and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (2001), among other museums.
Neo Rauch at the Met: para is organized by Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Curator in Charge of the Metropolitans Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. After its presentation at the Met, the exhibition will travel to the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, Germany in October 2007. On the occasion of the exhibition, DuMont publishers (Cologne, Germany) will release a related publication that will include 12 color illustrations and an essay by Werner Spies. The exhibition will also be featured on the Museums Web site, www.metmuseum.org.
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