Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Two Times NR 34 (2016), via Thaddaeus Ropac

Launched in conjunction with the artist’s current exhibition at the Tate Modern, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is currently presenting a range of recent works by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, exploring the artist couple’s continued exploration and investigation of the threads of memory, narration and understanding through myriad approaches to art making. The exhibition presents a collection of three separate series of recent works, each reflecting the artist’s complex relationship with the past, and the notions of personal and collective memory.  (more…)

Filmmaker Harun Farocki has died at 70. Born in German-annexed Czechoslovakia, Farocki attended the German Academy of Film and Television in Berlin before getting kicked out in 1968 and pursuing an artistic career creating  politically-charged experimental films. Called the “best-known unknown filmmaker in Germany”, Farocki operated outside the New German Cinema movement that featured contemporaries such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog.  Represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Farocki exhibited an installation of his work “Images of War (At a Distance)” at the MoMA in 2011.  (more…)

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Terence Koh, The Self Become the Wood (f) (2009). Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Galerie
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“Adansonias” is the most recent solo show of Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh, running through June 18th at Thaddaeus Ropac Galerie‘s Austrian space.  The exhibition was titled after Koh’s imaginary opera–first performed at the Parisian Thaddaeus Ropac Galerie in 2009–and it gathers vestiges of the piece’s conception and execution, including two white grand pianos, and photographies.  Koh’s “Adansonias” has been referred to as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, involving sound, theatrical, and visual art. The stillness and silence in the space contrast with the dynamism of the documented opera piece, as this show barely echoes the performance itself, but elucidates on the aesthetic and intellectual aspects of Koh’s creative process behind the work, while attributing a perennial solemnity to the artifacts on display.

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Terence Koh, Installation View (2011). Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Galerie

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Installation view of “For the Time Being” at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, (Antony Gormley is at right) All images Caroline Claisse for Art Observed.

Antony Gormley with Cumulate (2011)

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Robert Longo, Untitled (Mecca) (2011)

Art Observed was on-site for the opening of a solo-show by American Robert Longo entitled “God Machines.” A long-time collaborator of the gallery, this is Longo’s first major exhibition at the gallery in many years. The exhibit features three monumental works in the form of large-scale charcoal drawings which almost completely cover the walls of the main gallery space. The works are dedicated to three monotheistic religions and depict major places of religious worship. The event also celebrates the twentieth year anniversary of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in Paris.

Gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac, Robert Longo and his wife at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
All pictures by Caroline Claisse for Art Observed.

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Installation view. All images via Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery

On April 24, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, hosted the opening of the exhibition of the new works by Georg Bazelitz. The show includes a series of Bazelitz’ new monumental sculptures, several paintings, and a number of works on paper that are on display in the gallery’s Drawing Space.

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George Baselitz, Kulakentrstung via Galerie thaddaeus Ropac

Currently showing at the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery is an exhibit of Georg Baselitz’s works.  The exhibit takes place in the Salzburg gallery and is comprised of 13 works on canvas, a sculpture and watercolors. Baselitz, although in his 70s, is still a prominent and active figure in the International art scene. One of the most important German artists, Baselitz has caused a stir throughout his career with the politically controversial work he creates. Returning to Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery this year Baselitz shows examples of his art that comment on the fall of political protagonists. The show titled: “Verdunkelung [Collusion] ” is over September 19, 2009.

Related Links:
George Baselitz [Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac]
Current Viewing: Georg Baselitz: Verdunkelung: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac [The Imagist]
George Baselitz: Press Release [Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac]
George Baselitz: Remix (2008 exhibit at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac) [Artinfo]
George Baselitz (bio) [Gagosian Gallery]

Georg Baselitz, Maler – Maler via Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

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From the Marc Quinn exhibition currently hosted by the Salzburg branch of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac.

It’s the last chance to view works by Marc Quinn at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg.  “Material Dematerialize” is the artist’s first solo show at the gallery.  It is a mix of painting and sculpture which focuses on the virtual and the real: where they overlap, where the lines blur and where the material dematerializes.  All works in the show are exhibited publicly for the first time.

Related links:
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn Bio

Marc Quinn, Mirage, at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

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“Out Span” Tony Cragg at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Photo Taken by Art Observed

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is currently exhibiting a substantial collection of both sculptures and drawings by one of the most exciting sculptors of the moment, Tony Cragg.  The exhibition covers three floors of the gallery and includes new works in stone, bronze, stainless wood and polished stained steel.  In the drawing space, Cragg is presenting a series of recent drawings that highlight his quintessential ideas on how new forms can emerge from both figures and landscapes.  To coincide with the opening of this exhibition, Cragg’s Column will be installed in the Tuileries Gardens behind the Jeu de Paum Museum.

Exhibition Detail: Tony Cragg [ArtSlant]
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac [Thaddaeus Ropac]
Tony Cragg [The Parisian]
Tony Cragg at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-Paris [artalog]

“Still Life One”, Tony Cragg. Photo via ArtSlant

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Antony Gormley’s ‘Clutch II’ via Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Currently on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s Salzburg location is Antony Gormley’s exhibition of new drawing and sculptures, ‘ATAXIA II.’ Ataxia, a Greek word meaning ‘lack of order,’ is a neurological condition that results in the loss of coordination and bodily control. A series of seven sculptures composed of iron blocks shows the body in varying physical states representing a a loss of control. The works’ titles, Turn, Splice, Shrive, Shy, List, Clutch, and Haft, correspond to different pathologies and movements.  Also on view are several small black and white drawings exploring the idea that our bodies are heavily influenced by outside forces, both social and physical.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Antony Gormley
Body Art [Artinfo]

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Jonathan Meese outside Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac with one of his sculptures, via Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

Now on display at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg, Austria is German artist Jonathan Meese’s most recent sculptural works. Meese has been known in particular as a performance and installation artist but has recently renewed his artistic focus on the classic forms of painting, drawing, and sculpture. Though varied are his mediums Meese’s works are known to employ a constant theme of symbols, signs, and badges that serve as figurative allusions to characters in history, fictional literature, and current pop culture that are as varied as Stalin and Scarlet Johannson.  The artist’s work also serves as a reflection and reconstruction of German history and mythology.  This exploration has lent the artist to be compared to fellow German artist Anselm Kiefer whose work, especially that of the 1970’s, drew substantial inspiration from the history of Nazi Germany.
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Press Release [Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac]
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Jonathan Meese at Thaddaeus Ropac [Contemporary Art Daily]
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Ich bin ein artist [TheMoment]

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San Loretto, Anselm Kiefer (2007) via Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Anselm Kiefer’s solo show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg, Austria called “Maria Walks Amid the Thorn”, will be open through August 27.  The exhibition is made up of over 30 new works, and although some of them were started in the 1970s, almost all of them were completed during the past two years. The work all deal with the biblical figure of the Virgin Mary, and the title of his show, “Maria walks amid the Thorn,” references a popular German Christmas carol.  Kiefer, who is known for his prolific usage of organic material, such as dirt, lead, wood, and straw, continues to develop his trademark process of sedimentation.

Anselm Kiefer [Art News]
Anselm Kiefer: Maria Walks Amid the Thorn [Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac]
View video of Anselm Kiefer’s solo show here [Vernissage]

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