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ATTENDEE:Contemporary Fine Arts / CFA
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present its first solo s
 how of paintings by Julian Schnabel (*1951). It is the artist’s first 
 major solo exhibition in Germany since his sensational museum retrospect
 ive at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt 2004.\n \nJulian Schnabel bega
 n making a name for himself in the early 1980s\, in particular with his 
 “plate paintings”\, works in which broken pieces of plate were glued
  to the surface to create a fragmenting effect. This fragmentation\, as 
 Robert Fleck writes in the exhibition catalogue\, “has since developed
  into a constantly reinvented conjunction of generously applied material
 s\, materials often alien to painting\, and bold marriages of pictures a
 nd surfaces.” The figurative or abstract found pictures onto which he 
 paints are not neutral\, virgin surfaces\, but backgrounds with stories 
 of their own.\n \nThe synthetic backgrounds for the new work presented i
 n the show are mostly enlarged snapshots\, photographs of images such as
  Indian deities or of historic paintings\, taken by the artist himself. 
 Schnabel uses these materials and their history as reference points\, as
  “fragments of the world”. “Using existing material adds an ethnog
 raphic aspect to the work\,” the artist explains\, “in that it intro
 duces a real place and a real time to the aesthetic reality.” His new 
 pictures thus meet the digital world’s image-making process head on\, 
 and provide it with a fresh counterpoint. As Robert Fleck observes: “H
 e grasps the media image by its horns and\, with his painterly modificat
 ions\, brings it to its knees.”\n \nSymbols\, objects and words also f
 eature in Julian Schnabel’s pictures\, heightening the sense of incomp
 atible elements colliding. They too had a prior existence\, these unknow
 n and famous names\, these often entirely out-of-context half-sentences 
 and sequences of words\, an existence that brings the observer’s own e
 motions\, connotations and memories into play. The tension of this colli
 sion is set off by the calming effect of the paint which\, smothers with
  a remarkable dedication to surface coverage\, lends the work an expansi
 veness and inner composure.\n \nJulian Schnabel is a painter living and 
 working in New York and the director of films such as Basquiat (1996)\, 
 Before Night Falls (2000) and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).\
 n \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an introduction by
  Robert Fleck.
URL:http://www.cfa-berlin.de
SUMMARY:Julian Schnabel. Deus Ex Machina
LOCATION:Contemporary Fine Arts / CFA
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