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JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS, FOUNDER JSVCprojects
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
SAVE THE DATE
BAD+
July 6-10 2022
HANGAR 14
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Backstage filming ‘Two Feet Walking’
By Ishmael Annobil, Filmmaker
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College
Cambridge University
8th April 2022
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022
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NATURE NOTES:
HELLO TO SPRING, PARIS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
A WALKED DRAWING, ‘TWO FEET WALKING’,
By Linda Karshan
In collaboration with Filmmaker, Ishmael Annobil
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ISHMAEL ANNOBIL, 'INSOMNIA'
Coming soon at L'Interstice, Arles
Opening on April 15, 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JASON BUTLER, ‘ONE ON ONE’
Launch new ArtHouse exhibition space
Jersey, England
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, "THESE SCENES", 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LOSING DAN GRAHAM
1942-2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAD+
BORDEAUX + ART + DESIGN
New dates: July 6-10 2022, at HANGAR 14
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
2000 THANK YOU NOTES
7 February 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
NEW SPACE FOR JSVCPROJECTS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROBERT STONE
Debut with Haines Gallery at FOG Design + Art 2022
San Francisco, CA
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
nolde / kritik / documenta
A project by documenta archiv, Draiflessen Collection and Mischa Kuball
NEW DATE: FALL 2022
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
WARM WISHES AND NEW ADVENTURES
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey
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STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
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NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN
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THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE
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NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES
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HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020
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HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MANIFEST OF THE TRUE
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
SUMMER NEWS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY,
"Brick Sculptures"
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO PUGLIA
"Ceramic & Food Route",
Recent Summer 2019 Highlights
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JSVC HIGHLIGHTS:
ART & LANGUAGE, LONDON
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, EXHIBITION AT GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DR. SUSANNE A. KUDIELKA,
Private art collecting is a passion
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN
“It’s About Time”
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DAYDREAMING WITH STANLEY KUBRICK,
Exhibition at Somerset House, London
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
May 2nd 2022
PART I
New arrivals from the archives of Helmut Federle. It has been an unusual early spring here at JSVCprojects. As I am again spending all my time between the couch and my book cases under house arrest like the long months of the pandemic when it was not possible to go out the door. This time, however, it is a compression fracture of a vertebrae not a nasty virus that is keeping me away from the studio visits and exhibition openings where you would normally find me. It leaves a lot of time staring out the window, at the wood pigeons perched on the chimney stacks and at the roses blooming in the private garden below my windows. Everything I see becomes an abstraction of something else, as if the creamy sandstone and rooftops can be compressed in two dimensions instead of three. Such is my open-ended thinking after a month of associative daydreaming.
Which brings me to four vintage publications that I found during the crisp cold days of January, adding to my library of Helmut Federle’s books and catalogues. It seemed a good moment to share them with you. Sometimes it feels as the decades behind us have simply disappeared into ether, the countless exhibitions in galleries and museums that I worked on since 1980. So, when sitting around, images of these sometimes pop into mind as a counterpoint to Instagram, catching a glimpse of what I have been missing between the Venice Biennale and other current events. I try to remind myself that art is one arched continuum when the works themselves carry energy and time.
Obviously, there is nothing like a cracked back to make you feel a sense of the years passing: the days are long, but memory is longer when you can keep the pain at bay. I am buoyed by the discovery of these four small volumes because they, in their way, punctuate the decades of my knowing the work of Helmut Federle and the museum directors, curators and writers who were once among the crowds of people we greeted in Venice or Basel from one year to the next. So, though I am alone in my library, all of these people are still part of those memories. It is worthwhile picking up each of these volumes to see how relevant their observations and insights still are today.
PART II
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“The Image of Abstraction” was a group show organised at MOCA, LA by Kerry Brougher and director Richard Koshalek in 1988, four years after Federle’s debut exhibition at John Gibson Gallery in New York where I was gallery director. The catalogue opens with a famous picture of the installation “Exhibition 0,10” of Malevich from 1915, an image I have used in my own publications to begin the discussion of the power of abstract painting in the 20th Century. As we are now living through a period of dynamic rethinking of the canon of art history as well as opening the boundaries of artistic practice in a vibrant and important manner, it can feel arcane to some to reflect on abstract painting as it emerges through the last quarter of the last century and continues today, striking in its connection to Malevich and his interpretation of The Non-Objective World. Federle is in good company with Gerhard Richter, Imi Knoebel, Sherrie Levine and Ross Bleckner among others. A large painting from The Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection in New York is included. The curator writes:
‘Federle’s compositions suggest that the pursuit of the spiritual and absolute is still worthwhile even if it must be tempered by reason and restraints and tainted with a certain amount of skepticism’.
Federle wrote:
‘Only I must say that the quest for absolute truths is no longer feasible or rather you can still look for absolute values and ideals but you will have to face up to the fact that they can no longer be found in our materialistic, jaded world. This does not, however, diminishes the value of ideals.’
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The Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection, New York, 1998
Almost 10 years later, in the art journal “Noëma”, Federle plays with his cat in front of a large painting in his studio. There is one article in German by Swiss art publisher and translator Max Wechsler and an interview with Erich Franz who was the director of the Westfälischen Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Münster. It is the commemorative issue when Federle represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1997.
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PART III
A very thin but elegant publication published by Verlage Weltkunst Und Bruckmann in Munich with a text by Barbara Fischer shows an assortment of works on paper (double page 4-5) and major paintings (page 12-13). It is in their series “Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art”.
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The Gulbenkian catalogue is from 2017 curated by Jorge Rodrigues with a text by Edmund de Waal writing about Federle’s collection of ceramics, several of which are installed in the show next to his paintings and then a text by Elisabeth Samsonow about abstraction perception and the spirit:
‘Holy Fear, which is actually a moment of the highest calm under concentration, a moment of serenity, is a thing of beauty which must accompany the evidence, the literal clarification of a painting. It is the encounter with the organization of self that surpasses all efforts of philosophical reflection. From this point on, the link from art to art’s companion, religion, can again be drawn with remarkable ease. Religion nourishes a vital interest in the production of this evidence, though it has used and continues to use other ways and methods for this purpose. What it could not do, however, was to forego the aesthetic experience in order to achieve its goals.’
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