This year's Cologne Fine Art Award, which is endowed with € 10,000, goes to Georg Baselitz.
A selection of the artist's important printed graphic works will be presented in a special show.
Georg Baselitz is an internationally renowned artist who has been working continuously and with great intensity for almost 50 years now with the traditional media of the visual arts. Thanks to his unadorned "handwriting", his vital expressiveness and his choice of provocative themes, he has literally turned painting, sculpture and graphics upside down and restored their timeless significance.
Koelnmesse GmbH and the Federal Association of German Galleries and Editions will in cooperation present the award to Georg Baselitz at 3 p. m. on Tuesday, 17th November 2009 as part of the opening ceremony of Cologne Fine Art & Antiques.
This exhibition of more than 30 examples of ancient textiles, carpets and kelims from various regions of the world reveals astonishing parallels with modern artistic sensibilities. The colours and patterns of these textiles, which are reduced to elementary forms and in many cases were conceived as objects of daily use, have something magical about them.
In cases where their creators' way of life has remained unchanged, the iconography of this so-called "tribal art" has hardly been altered over the centuries. This primal quality is mirrored by a movement in fine art that attempts to free itself from the excesses and limitations of the past. Within this movement, a broad rang of artists such as Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, Josef Albers and Sean Scully have developed a contemporary vocabulary of forms that is in complete harmony with the traditional values of woven textile arts. As a result, we encounter in their works a Zeitgeist that transmits aspects of the past while at the same time repeatedly exploring new territory.
The exhibition is curated by Prof. David Galloway, an art critic and the former Chief Curator of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
Public guided tours for adults
Highlights of the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques
18th - 22nd November 2009 at 12:30 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour, Fee: € 5
"Design - from Tradition to Modern Times"
Guided Tour on the History of Applied Art
18th - 22nd November 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour, Fee: € 5
Fine Art Walks for children (aged over 5 years)
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian
21st and 22nd November 2009 at 3:00 p.m. and after registration by phone
Duration: 1 hour, Fee: € 5 (one parent or guardian free of charge)
Krebber + Schmid GbR international art dialog
Brinkhof 30, D-59368 Werne, Tel: + 49 171 5408064
E-mail: info@kunstvermittlung.com
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Georg Baselitz
"Shepherd (remix)", 2008,
Woodcut on Washi primed with multiple colours 115 g/m², Printing plate 99.8 x 50 cm, Paper dimensions 124 x 70 cm
©Georg Baselitz /Galerie Sabine Knust
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Georg Baselitz
"Modern Painter(remix)", 2008,
Woodcut on Washi primed with multiple colours 115 g/m², Printing plate 99.8 x 50 cm, Paper dimensions 124 x 70 cm
©Georg Baselitz /Galerie Sabine Knust
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Lanwon Sumatra,
early 20th century
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Tapa Micronesia,
19th century