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Kai Althoff's Punkt, Absatz, Bluemli (period, paragraph, Bluemli) at Gladstone Gallery |
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Kai Althoff, "Punkt, Absatz, Bluemli" (period, paragraph, Bluemli), January 15 - March 5. Photo: Kai Althoff. © Kai Althoff. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Someone who saw the work said the following: "The images herein depict mundane and fantastic situations enacted by human and animal souls, figures ill and ecstatic about the situations they have been granted. Some figures cannot help but stare or grab at each other, while others step on their companions, soiling any hope of communion. Their wills, like twisted wicks, burn distinct but unified fires. They are composed of several species but they cannot tell themselves apart, awakening loathsome blood in the veins of each body. With sycophantic excitement they conduct every modern day sacramentmurder, construction, commerce, and hygiene (among others). Yet their tangled wills act not in the name of altruism or holiness, but from their everlasting yearning for lifes sweet spots and the age-old wish to dissociate from (or marry) all carnal cravings. These acts set the figures at odds with their surroundings, as flowers ill through winters scour."
Kai Althoff was born in Cologne, Germany in 1966. Althoff has been the subject of solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad including: Vancouver Art Gallery; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kunsthalle Zürich; and Simultanhalle, Cologne. His work has also appeared in many group shows at institutions including: CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. Althoff was included in Of Mice and Men, the 2006 Berlin Biennial. He was most recently included in Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
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Today's News
January 19, 2011
Retrospective of the Leading Mexican Artist Gabriel Orozco on Display at Tate Modern
Rediscovered Painting by Dutch Artist Rembrandt on Loan at the Toledo Museum of Art
Kai Althoff's Punkt, Absatz, Bluemli (period, paragraph, Bluemli) at Gladstone Gallery
Rutger's Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
First British Portrait of a Black African Muslim and Freed Slave Goes on Display
John Hancock Tower in Boston Selected to Receive AIA Twenty-Five Year Award
Adjunct Curator at ICP, Okwui Enwezor, Appointed as Director of Haus der Kunst
Scale Model of the Warsaw Ghetto at the "From Holocaust to Revival" Museum
A Special Exhibition on the Phenomenon James Dean Opens at the Kennedys in Berlin
Social Documentary Photographer Milton Rogovin Dies at Age 101 in New York
Just a Few Months Before Opening, Minefields Circle Jesus' Traditional Baptism Site
Artists, Designers Join Forces for the Second Annual Green Auction at Christie's
The Wallace Collection Announces the Appointment of Dr. Christoph Vogtherr as New Director
Carlton Hobbs Presents Inspired by Antiquity: Classical Influences on 18th and 19th Century Furniture and Works of Art
Restoration Of The Much Loved Waterloo Poem by Sue Hubbard
Stunning Installation of New Oil Paintings by Carlos Luna at Heather James Fine Art
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
The Enduring Beauty of Jewelry Across the Ages Dazzles in Newark Museum's Lore Ross Jewelry Gallery
A Dynamic Array of Art as Throngs Visit the Second Miami International Art Fair
Group Exhibition to Examine Art and Democracy in Europe
Art Madrid 2011 Maintains the Number of Galleries and Increases the Quality Level
Roxy Paine's Steel Sculpture Ferment to be Installed in Kansas City Sculpture Park
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? Documentary Traces the Rise of Norman Foster
After 30 Years at Sotheby's, Fergus Lyons Appointed as Head of Furniture at Bonhams
Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite
Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen Explores Possible Guggenheim Museum in Finland
O'Keeffiana: Art and Art Materials from the Extensive Collection of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Mixed-Media Artist Katya Bonnenfant Opens Second Exhibition Under New Moniker at Haines Gallery
Texas Foundation to Sell Matisse Set 'The Backs'
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