Supporting programme

Cologne Fine Art & Antiques 2009

Cologne Fine Art Award 2009 goes to Georg Baselitz

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.

Cologne Fine Art Design Lounge presenting Satyendra Pakhalé

Satyendra Pakhalé grew up in the heart of India, trained in India and Switzerland and has worked internationally. Over the last decade, he has carved out a unique position in the international design arena. He has skilfully evolved a humanistic design language by blending age-old materials and techniques from his native India with state-of-the-art technology and materials.

True to his origin, he says, “Originality comes from origin.”

Pakhalé has set himself the goal of lending modern technocratic objects and his limited-edition objects the quality associated with cultural, symbolic and emotional values. He still spends extended time in the heart of India working with age-old artisans, secret skills and sensibilities. Along with his increasing international workload with high-tech companies, this has given Satyendra Pakhalé a new view of the relationship between the industrial, the hand-made and the serially produced. Indeed Pakhalé’s creations seem to physically connect the past and the present, acting as conduits of skill, wisdom and emotion that continue to ensure a rich and useful design vocabulary of the 21^st century.

Idea and realization of the Design Lounge: gabrielle ammann, designer’s agency, Köln

Special Exhibition 2009

ANCIENT CONTEMPORARY Textile art: parallels with modern art

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.

FINE ART WALKS

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

EXPONATEC COLOGNE walks for exhibitors of Cologne Fine Art & Antiques

As an exhibitor at Cologne Fine Art & Antiques, you are surrounded with precious objects every day and you know how to present these treasures to your customers in a professional way. Whether you exhibit a showpiece of shiny Chinese silk, Meissen porcelain, valuable graphic art, costume jewellery from New York, rococo cherubs, extending tables made of cherry wood, small ivory sculptures, Berlin Secessionists, Viennese design objects, artists of the Bauhaus or paintings of the last 50 years you have to stage these fine art and cultural objects in an effective way.

If you need a high-tech display case, are looking for the latest picture hanging systems, want to get a new adjustable lighting system, need the latest graphic arts storage system or want to get information on current developments in restoration technique then our EXPONATEC COLOGNE walks for exhibitors of Cologne Fine Art & Antiques are for you.

With our EXPONATEC COLOGNE walks, we offer all exhibitors at Cologne Fine Art & Antiques the opportunity to get an overview of the most recent services in the field of culture and fine arts.

Just come to our information booth at 10:30 a.m. from 18th to 20th November. Our EXPONATEC walks start here and, for exhibitors at Cologne Fine Art & Antiques, they are free of charge.

For booking and information contact:

Sabine Krebber, Krebber + Schmid GbR international art dialog

Tel: +49 171 5408064, e-mail: info@kunstvermittlung.com

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

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