Friday 24 February 2017

DIETRICH ORTH featured in "Monday Is A Day Between Sunday and Tuesday" at Tanya Leighton, Berlin

DIETRICH ORTH, Vierermännchen, 1986, oil and mixed media on canvas, 165 x 167cm, Courtesy Delmes & Zander


"MONDAY IS A DAY BETWEEN SUNDAY AND TUESDAY"

Curated by Lisa Offermann
25 FEBRUARY - 15 APRIL 2017

also feat.
TAMINA AMADYAR, MAGNUS ANDERSEN, MONIKA BAER, BRADLEY DAVIES, ANDERS DICKSON, ELIZA DOUGLAS,
GEORGIA GARDNER GRAY, MICHAELA EICHWALD, MARLEY FREEMAN, STEFANIE HEINZE, UWE HENNEKEN, MELIKE KARA,
CHRISTINE KRIEGEROWSKI, FRIEDRICH KUNATH, CLAUDIA LEMKE, JONAS LIPPS, BIRGIT MEGERLE, OLIVER OSBORNE, CHRISTOPH RUCKHÄBERLE, MARK VAN YETTER, ANNA ZACHAROFF
 
"The show's title - a wry definition of the first day of the week - points to our impulse to name things, to classify them and to devise systems for understanding them. In art, naming and delineating have been stalwart accessories in writing the canon of art history. Art's multifarious periods, movements and schools of thought have probably always felt inadequate. This inadequacy is particularly apparent today, yet these categories seem to be unshakeable. Similar to the way that two dots and a line always seem to draw a face, it is without thinking that we ask things to coalesce into groups that we can arrange in relationship to one another." (...)

www.tanyaleighton.com
 

Tuesday 21 February 2017

Delmes & Zander at INDEPENDENT NY, 2017

DISKO GIRLS (Anonymous), untitled, 1970s-80s, crayon on paper, Courtesy Delmes & Zander

Delmes & Zander presents
DISKO GIRLS (Anonymous)
at INDEPENDENT, NY 2-5 March 2017
 

At this year's edition of the Independent New York, Delmes & Zander will present Disko Girls, an anonymous portfolio comprising 50 erotic drawings, all of which completed on DIN A4 format sheets of paper (8,3 x 11,7 in) with crayon and pencil. Despite thorough research it has not been possible to identify the artist behind these drawings, found in Germany in the late 1990's. It is assumed that the portfolio represents only a mere fraction of a complete oeuvre dedicated to a self-same theme pursued over a longer period of time. The name Disko Girls has been attributed to the work out of respect for the unnamed and unknown author. Delmes & Zander will show these works in the unquestionable belief that the intrinsic artistic process, the unique quality and the distinctive signature of the works clearly define and validate them in their artistic value.

The work can be dated back to the 1970s/ 1980s and clearly resorts to both the aesthetics and the iconography of a pop cultural language rooted in its time. Music plays a crucial role as does the aura of the female pop star with her microphone as seen on television (the most popular German music television series was the ZDF-Hitparade depicted in the drawings) or in a magazine, or the pop fan illustrated in her bedroom, listening to her favorite songs on her tape recorder or flicking through her vinyl record collection, by the imagination of her creator. In a curious psychedelic visual realm fuelled by naive fandom and populated by sexy girls, the pastel worlds of Disko Girls (Anonymous) epitomize desire, glamour and candy-colored fantasies at times reminiscent of the work of Aurie Ramirez. Disko Girls (Anonymous)has recently been included into the gallery’s program and will be introduced for the very first time to the public here at the Independent in New York.

Delmes & Zander will show at the Independent Brussels in April (19.-23.) featuring works by keyboard rock star icon Wesley Willis in an exhibition entitled Rock'N'Roll Superhighway picking up once again on the theme of music at the heart of Disko Girls (Anonymous) the gallery's presentation at the Independent New York earlier in the year.

We look forward to your visit on 5th Floor!
www.independenthq.com

Tuesday 14 February 2017

"HIPKISS: YES, BUT NO." Opening on Friday! Delmes & Zander I Berlin

HIPKISS, Yes But No But, 2014, mixed media on paper, 59 x 118cm

Delmes & Zander I Berlin presents

Hipkiss:Yes, but No.

February 17 – April 15, 2017
Opening: Friday, 17.2., 6–9 pm

In the exhibition Hipkiss: Yes, but No. Delmes and Zander is showing for the first time at the Berlin space a selection of works by the British artist duo Hipkiss including five pieces from their most recent series, “The Towers.”

Initiated in early 2015, „The Towers” is a series of graphite drawings on long sheets of paper (approx. 40 x 225 cm) in which the look of the Hipkiss-landscape is taken yet another step further by way of newly explored dynamic processes in creation. The drawings reveal a more abstract yet concentrated visual language in which details are distilled without the distraction of a more complicated, continuous backdrop. By organically working their way from the axis within the circular limits, the magically vertiginous effect of the drawings is accentuated. As is emblematic of Hipkiss, the works feature human-made structures placed against - or within - natural landscapes, intricately intertwined and almost hybrid, whilst at the same time curiously out of place. “The Towers”-landscapes work at both close range and from a distance, individually and collectively as a whole.
They have become Hipkiss' primary ongoing project since and mark a more mature phase in their artistic development, where the alter egos used by Hipkiss in the past have naturally shifted from the glammed-up, youthful figures to more abstract and natural forms.

Hipkiss have also pointed to the overt political meaning of their most recent work: “Reflecting a year - 2016 - in which it could be said that masculine forces have enjoyed a resurgence of power in the Western world, the many feminine symbols to be found in the drawings coalesce, in our minds, to combat the attempted coup; it is a paean to solidarity and righteous rage.”

Alongside “The Towers”, the exhibition will show a selection of smaller works on paper and the seminal “L.I.E.” - series (an acronym for "London In Europe") in which Hipkiss dissect the ambiguity of the British identity within Europe – a prophetical series in view of recent developments in the U.K. and the Brexit debate.

Hipkiss are Chris and Alpha Mason (both *1964). They have steadily worked as equal partners on inventing and reinventing their symbolic language together since 1983, with each of their strands of creativity – Alpha in writing and Chris in drawing – culminating in a singular and distinctive visual style. The landscapes they envision abound in intricate details and equivocal organic forms which, in the artists' words, unfold as if by happenstance in a collaborative creative process continuously shaped by an ongoing exchange of ideas and techniques. Wordplay is also recurrent in the work of Hipkiss and an essential formal element in their narrative mode. For many years, Hipkiss have refined their use and understanding of graphite (and graphite over silver ink) on paper as their primary media, but have occasionally also included other materials - such as the metal leaf and tape seen in “The Towers”. The result is an impressive oeuvre that is both meaningful and strikingly beautiful.

The work of Hipkiss can be found in the following collections: the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (US-WI), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Netherlands), The Whitworth (UK), FRAC Picardie (France), the American Folk Art Museum (US-NY); and in the private collections of Cindy Sherman, Antoine de Galbert and Arnulf Rainer. Hipkiss has featured in solo shows at Intuit, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, group shows at the Tate Britain, Whitechapel, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, La Maison Rouge, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and David Zwirner, and international art fairs, including Art Basel, Frieze London, Art Forum Berlin and Open Space (solo booth) at Art Cologne.

www.delmes-zander.de

Friday 3 February 2017

"The Road Less Traveled" exhibition series at John Michael Kohler Art Center

EUGENE VON BRUENCHENHEIN, untitled, 1940-50s, Vintage Gelatin Silver Print,
25 x 16cm, Courtesy Delmes & Zander

The Road Less Traveled
- John Michael Kohler Arts Center begins yearlong
interdisciplinary exploration of artist-built environments

Opening Night on Sat, Feb. 25, 2017 / 7:00-10:00 pm.

including works by
Emery Blagdon, Loy Bowlin, Nek Chand, Eddie Owens Martin, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, and many others.

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center presents The Road Less Traveled, a yearlong series of 15 exhibitions exploring the multifaceted and unique field of artist-built environments. This series draws deeply from the Arts Center's world-renowned collection, offering the opportunity to experience the work of art-environment builders including Emery Blagdon, Loy Bowlin, Nek Chand, Eddie Owens Martin, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, and many others.

In addition, THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED incorporates new writing and works of art produced by scholars, curators, musicians, and theorists from wide-ranging disciplines in response to art environments. Through connecting its collection with internationally respected thinkers, the Arts Center aims to expand the conversation surrounding this compelling art form.

www.jmkac.org

Wednesday 1 February 2017

DAMN°s imm Cologne Guide featuring "ONE/OTHER"


PAUL HUMPHREY, Andrea Lee Asleep, undated, mixed media on paper, 28 x 21,5 cm, Courtesy Delmes & Zander
DAMN° imm Cologne Guide 2017, p.52.

Our current exhibition "ONE/OTHER Self-portraits and Portraits" is featured in DAMN magazine's Cologne city guide 2017. Only one more week left, so don't miss it!

"ONE/OTHER - Self-Portraits and Portraits"
through Feb 4, 2017

feat. Morton Bartlett, Miroslav Tichy, Alexander Lobanov, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Margret - Chronic einer Affäre, Type 42, Paul Humphrey and many more

Delmes & Zander | Cologne - Antwerpener Str.1, 50670 Cologne
Delmes & Zander | Berlin - Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 37, 10178 Berlin