Cold Hearts: Artists from Leipzig
JULIA SCHMIDT, UNTITLED (LUSTRE), 2004
Period | 16 April – 26 June , 2005
Venue | Arario Gallery Cheonan
Works | 73 pieces including painting and photography
Opening Reception | 6pm, 16 April, 2005
The Arario has continually demonstrated its interest in contemporary German art, especially painting, so it is only natural that it be interested in the Leipzig painters -- the artists whose works are direct descendants of German painting of the seventies and eighties. Meanwhile, during the past two years of preparation for this exhibition, "Cold Hearts: Artists from Leipzig," there has been a growing, strangely powerful fascination in the art world for "the young German artists," especially the so-called "young Leipzig painters." It is in this atmosphere that Arario has organized an exhibition that brings together paintings of the Leipzig artists and presents an occasion to look at some of the reasons that the art world is so enthralled with their work.
The art market's frenzied activity around the Leipzig Painters can also, however, hide the importance of the works themselves. The rapidly changing map of the contemporary art world has solid roots in contemporary German art, especially painting. On this background the young Leipzig Painters have set out to discover the meaning of painting in modern society and to take it in new directions. The results of their research appear in two-dimensional images and effects whose diversity resides in the spiritual uncertainty and the specific social problems that Germans have had to overcome in their changing society.
The Arario Gallery is pleased to reveal, in this exhibition of 70 works from the New Leipzig School Paintings by nine young artists and three series of collaborative photos by photography students at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, the essence of a contemporary Leipzig art scene that is creating so much excitement in today's art world.
