From Pablo Picasso to Robert Rauschenberg
Schenkung Céline, Heiner und Aeneas Bastian. Hommage à Ingrid Mössinger
The presentation brings together an extensive collection of diverse contemporary positions. On display are paintings, sculptures, installations, collages, watercolours, drawings, photographs and the most diverse printing techniques. Thanks to the donation of the Bastian family, the contemporary art holdings of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz have been considerably expanded. It comprises over 200 individual works by international artists from Belgium, China, Germany, France, Greece, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Spain and the USA.
Two prints by the oldest artist in the exhibition, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), are on show: the etching Sculpteur, modele couché et sculpture (1933) from the well-known series Suite Vollard and the colour aquatint Bethsabée (1966). A highlight of the show is the work Narcissus/ROCI USA (1990) by Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) from the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange series. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is represented with the print Mao (1944). The work Iphigenie (1973) by Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) consists of two sheets of the same motif from two different stages of silkscreen printing. Cy Twombly’s (1928-2011) late photographs Three Views of the Hofgarten, Munich (2008) show three perspectives of the park and a building in Munich’s Hofgarten. Wim Wenders` (*1945) Two Cars and a Woman Waiting, Houston Texas (1983) is from the photographic series Written in the West and is one of only a few of his photographic works showing people. For his Bouquet (2014) Gerhard Richter (*1932) chose the Diasec process, a complex printing technique in which an acrylic resin-sealed digital color photo print is mounted on a high-quality aluminum plate. The works of Luc Tuymans (*1958) show his typical glazed and intentionally blurred painting style.
The youngest artist in the exhibition, David R. L. Jones (*1980), creates his own fantastic pictorial worlds in his Implosive Neuro Polymorphism/ Conjoined Arena titled works of lacquer and acrylic paint. Anna Genger (*1978) from Hamburg works in a similarly small-scale but representational way in her paintings and elaborately designed collages, which reveal different partial motifs with each new look. Strictly structured paintings such as Half Pipe by Olaf Holzapfel (*1967) illustrate the diversity of Bastian’s donation as well as the juxtaposition of abstract and figurative artists. Works such as those by the Warsaw-based artist Wilhelm Sasnal (*1972) are usually based on images from the Internet, his own photographs, or stills from films. The 38-part series The Death of Marcel Boryna by the Dutch draughtsman Marcel van Eeden (*1965) is reminiscent of the classic film noir with its strong light-dark contrast. At first glance, a total of 99 prints by the Saxon artist Eberhard Havekost (*1967) show everyday things and scenes and invite us to explore their deeper meaning. The sculptor Stella Hamberg (*1975) is represented with her work FORGET (2005), which is one of her rare non-representational works.
The collaboration between the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and the Bastian family began in 2002 with the show Picasso et les femmes. A few years later, other important exhibitions followed, such as the presentation of the entire Suite Vollard by Pablo Picasso (2012), Joseph Beuys – Drawings (2014) and Andy Warhol – Death and Disaster (2014/15).
The accompanying program of the exhibition can be found here.
ARTISTS OF GIFT
Franz Ackermann
*1963 Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Germany, lives and works in Berlin and Karlsruhe
Joseph Beuys
*1921 Krefeld, Germany – †1986 Düsseldorf, Germany
Martin Borowski
*born 1970 in Hoyerswerda, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Michał Budny
*1976 Lesźno, Poland, lives and works in Warsaw
Guillermo Caivano
*1977 Barcelona, Spain, lives and works in Barcelona
Katalin Deér
*1965 Palo Alto, California, USA, lives and works in St. Gallen, Berlin and New York
Markus Draper
*1969 Görlitz, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Marcel van Eeden
*1965 The Hague, Netherlands, lives and works in Zurich, Karlsruhe and The Hague
Marisa Favretto
*1974 Seward, Alaska, USA, lives and works in Berlin
John Finneran
*1979 New York City, New York, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles
Jean-Pascal Flavien
*1971 Le Mans, France, lives and works in Berlin
Anna Genger
*1978 Hamburg, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Robert Gober
*1954 Wallingford, Connecticut, USA, lives and works in New York City
Stella Hamberg
*1975 Friedberg, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Eberhard Havekost
*1967 Dresden, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Olaf wooden apple
*1967 Dresden, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Sabine Hornig
*1964 Pforzheim, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
David R. L. Jones
*1980 London, England, GB, lives and works in London
Jin Lie
*1969 Province Shanxi, China, lives and works in Berlin
Britta Lumer
*1965 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Kerstin Kartscher
*1966 Nuremberg, Germany, lives and works in London
Ian Monroe
*1972 New York City, New York, USA, lives and works in London
Victoria Morton
*1971 Glasgow, Scotland, GB, lives and works in Glasgow and Fossombrone
Olaf Nicolai
*1962 Halle an der Saale, Germany, lives and works in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Frank Nitsche
*1964 Görlitz, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Iliad Papailiakis
*1970 Kandanos, Crete, Greece, lives and works in Athens
Manfred Pernice
*1963 Hildesheim, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Pablo Picasso
*1881 Malaga, Spain – †1973 Mougins, France
Robertauschenberg
*1925 Port Arthur, Texas, USA – †2008 Captiva Island, Florida, USA
David Renggli
*1974 Zurich, Switzerland, lives and works in Zurich and Texas
Gerhard Richter
*1932 Dresden, Germany, lives and works in Cologne
William Sasnal
*1972 Tarnau, Poland, lives and works in Krakow
Jan Scarrelman
*1975 Cologne, Germany, lives and works in Cologne and Düsseldorf
Thomas Scheibitz
*1968 Radeberg, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Sophie Schmidt
*1969 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, grew up in Athens, lives and works in Bern
Christine Schulz
*1961 Braunschweig, Germany, lives and works in Berlin and Garbolzum
Carsten Sievers
*1969 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
Emma Stibbon
*1962 Münster, Germany, lives and works in Bristol
Luc Tuymans
*1958 Mortsel, Belgium, lives and works in Antwerp
Cy Twombly
*1928 Lexington, Virginia, USA – †2011 Rome, Italy
Silke Wagner
*1968 Göppingen, Germany, lives and works in Frankfurt
Andy Warhol
*1928 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA – †1987 New York City, New York, USA
Wim Wenders
*1945 Düsseldorf, Germany, lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin
