PRESS RELEASE:
EXHIBITION OPENING
The artist-run space rupert goldsworthy gallery is pleased to present its third solo exhibition of paintings by the gallery's director/sweeper-up Rupert Goldsworthy.
The exhibition runs from July 4th to August 1st 2009. There will be an opening reception for the show on Saturday July 18th from 6-10pm, featuring a live performance at 9pm.
The gallery is located at Alexandrinenstrasse 4, Berlin-Kreuzberg.
rupert goldsworthy gallery previously existed for seven years, for two years in Berlin (from 1995-97) and five years (from 1998-2002) in Chelsea, NYC. Both projects were conceived to be finite and time-based at their inception, focusing on presenting a diverse range of emerging and mid-career artists. (The gallery's website www.rupertgoldsworthy.com documents this history).
Rupert Goldsworthy's paintings address a range of subjects using post-Pop methodology. His concerns include the Cold War, colonial history, and the iconography of Seventies radicalism.
Art critic Holland Cotter of The New York Times has written of Goldsworthy's work:
“Mr. Goldsworthy has an avid connoisseur's eye for popular culture, particularly youth culture. He exercises it here in paintings made up of words and phrases, hand drawn on large sheets of colored paper. Most of the references are to the 1960's and 70's. Names of suicidal rock stars, student radicals, celebrity drugs, Black Panthers, gay clubs and aged movie queens with sad, twilight histories bounce off each other and interconnect like fragments of overheard conversations.
And while the textual melange -- blasts from the past plus cultural arcana -- makes fun reading, it also has a distinctive moral texture: sharp, dark, hard to pin down but definitely there.”
For his new solo show, Goldsworthy presents a series of recent paintings made during the last year in Berlin which draw on themes relating to Berlin, its intellectual history and the contemporary cultural gestalt of the city.
The show also includes a selection of collaborative works made by Goldsworthy with various other artists including Christopher Brooks, Dennis Kardon, Hunter Reynolds, BOMBart, Angie Reed and Mark Stewart.
For further information concerning this show, check the gallery's website for images, details, video tour, and press clips, or contact the gallery via email or telephone.
The gallery also has on display new artist books by Erik Bakke, Lance Laurie, and X-Initiative/Swiss Institute New York.
Gallery hours: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 12-6pm, and by appointment.
The gallery is located at Alexandrinenstr. 4, 10969 Berlin (U-bahn: Hallesches Tor)
Tel: 015115841288
http://www.rupertgoldsworthy.com
EXHIBITION OPENING
The artist-run space rupert goldsworthy gallery is pleased to present its third solo exhibition of paintings by the gallery's director/sweeper-up Rupert Goldsworthy.
The exhibition runs from July 4th to August 1st 2009. There will be an opening reception for the show on Saturday July 18th from 6-10pm, featuring a live performance at 9pm.
The gallery is located at Alexandrinenstrasse 4, Berlin-Kreuzberg.
rupert goldsworthy gallery previously existed for seven years, for two years in Berlin (from 1995-97) and five years (from 1998-2002) in Chelsea, NYC. Both projects were conceived to be finite and time-based at their inception, focusing on presenting a diverse range of emerging and mid-career artists. (The gallery's website www.rupertgoldsworthy.com documents this history).
Rupert Goldsworthy's paintings address a range of subjects using post-Pop methodology. His concerns include the Cold War, colonial history, and the iconography of Seventies radicalism.
Art critic Holland Cotter of The New York Times has written of Goldsworthy's work:
“Mr. Goldsworthy has an avid connoisseur's eye for popular culture, particularly youth culture. He exercises it here in paintings made up of words and phrases, hand drawn on large sheets of colored paper. Most of the references are to the 1960's and 70's. Names of suicidal rock stars, student radicals, celebrity drugs, Black Panthers, gay clubs and aged movie queens with sad, twilight histories bounce off each other and interconnect like fragments of overheard conversations.
And while the textual melange -- blasts from the past plus cultural arcana -- makes fun reading, it also has a distinctive moral texture: sharp, dark, hard to pin down but definitely there.”
For his new solo show, Goldsworthy presents a series of recent paintings made during the last year in Berlin which draw on themes relating to Berlin, its intellectual history and the contemporary cultural gestalt of the city.
The show also includes a selection of collaborative works made by Goldsworthy with various other artists including Christopher Brooks, Dennis Kardon, Hunter Reynolds, BOMBart, Angie Reed and Mark Stewart.
For further information concerning this show, check the gallery's website for images, details, video tour, and press clips, or contact the gallery via email or telephone.
The gallery also has on display new artist books by Erik Bakke, Lance Laurie, and X-Initiative/Swiss Institute New York.
Gallery hours: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 12-6pm, and by appointment.
The gallery is located at Alexandrinenstr. 4, 10969 Berlin (U-bahn: Hallesches Tor)
Tel: 015115841288
http://www.rupertgoldsworthy.com
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