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." (...)

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