For the first time since 2007, the gallery spaces in the Villa Salve Hospes are being filled with a thematic group exhibition: OPEN HOUSE — A Group Show on Hospitality brings together eleven international
artistic positions whose works provide commentaries on hospitality as a social, cultural and political phenomenon.
Not exact matches
They offer an impressive survey of some of the most important international
artistic positions in the four decades between 1960 and 2000, but at the same time reflect the history of the Galerie Paul Maenz,
whose self - perception as an avant - garde showcase set new standards in West Germany.
«As an artist
whose images straddle the border of art and document, Friedlander was uniquely
positioned to preserve the social and visual phenomena of New Orleans, creating a varied body of work that is as humanistic as it is
artistic,» said Susan Taylor, NOMA's Montine McDaniel Freeman Director.
When former director Ira Goldberg recently resigned his
position to move to Spain and paint full - time, Tim was asked to take over leadership of the institution
whose alumni and faculty include
artistic giants like Jackson Pollock, Norman Rockwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Will Barnet, James Rosenquist, and Ai Weiwei.
The ideologies of
artistic practice may motivate painters and fix their
positions in the discourse of art history, but for viewers of the work itself, the painting exists as image and / or object - an image or object
whose relationship to the quotidian world of perception is ambiguous and multivalent.