LaBute Doppelgänger - The Shape of Things in four parts - oil and pigments on canvas 3m x 12m overal will be included in the Wuhan Biennial 2024 in China October 2024 - October 2025
I spent a week June 24-30, 2024 at AWASI a resort in the northern Jungle in Argentina and worked on DOUBLE TAKES photo based imagery in combination with watercolors.
UPCOMING SOLOS EXHIBITION - ART KARLSRUHE - FEBRUARY 12-17TH, 2020
121 Orchard Street, New York NY 10002
OPENING RECEPTION SEPT 4 - 6-8pm
September 4 - November 2nd, 2019
Galerie Floss & Schultz GbR
Steinstraße 37
50676 Köln (Altstadt Süd) GERMANY
galerie@flossundschultz.de
Galerie Filser und Gräf from Munich - Galerie Koch from Hannover and Galerie Rother-Winter from Wiesbaden are all presenting Contact Paintings at the Karlsruhe Art Fair 2018 -February 22nd - 25th.
....von Albers über Doratio zu Hirst
Nov. 30th - Jan 13th 2018
My Twins painting "Double Mickey" 2013, 183x366cm was part of the Beijing Biennale 2017 in the China Art Museum in Beijing
Ein Film der Ausstellung
FREUNDE TREFFEN SICH - REVISITED Manfred Boecker, Rainer Gross, Wolfgang Niedecken
im KUNSTMUSEUM VILLA ZANDERS in Bergisch-Gladbach 9.July bis 19.November 2017
Manfred Boeker - Rainer Gross - Wolfgang Niedecken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APs14ftPsD0
Was diese Freundschaft bedeutet
Unser erstes Terffen an den Werkkunstschulen in Köln im Jahr 1971 wurde für uns drei ein unsere Leben veränderndes Ereignis, der unsere Beziehung zur Kunst, Musik und zum Leben für die kommenden Jahre verändern sollte. Wir malten, machten Parties nd freuten uns an der Freiheit, die Kölner Kunst und Musikszene kennenzulernen.
Unser gemeinsames Interesse an Dada inspirierte uns, uns selbst Gruppe Schizo zu nennen. Bewegungen, die sich auf Humor beriefen - von Fluxus bis Pop und Konzeptkunst – waren unglaublich wichtig für uns. Wir nahmen alles. Wir benannten Ready-Mades auf kölsch mit Ess fäädisch. Wir bewunderten die Arbeiten von Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter und Joseph Beuys, wussten aber instinktiv, dass wir uns davon absetzen mussten.
Für mich bedeutete das, meine Umgebung radikal zu verändern, aufzubrechen, um neue Orte kennenzulernen und um zu gucken, was sich entwickeln würde. Genau zu derselben Zeit suchte der amerikanische Maler Howard Kanovitz einen Assisteten für sein Studio in Köln zur Vorbereitung seiner Teilnahme an der documenta V in Kassel im Jahr 1972. Ich war neugierig und nutzte die Gelegenheit, mit ihm zu arbeiten. Daraus wurde eine drei Jahre währende Zusammenarbeit, die mich von Köln über London nach New York führte, wo ich noch immer lebe und arbeite.
Ich lebte zuerst in Howards Studio an der Second Avenue und St.Mark’s Place und entschied mich, in New York zu bleiben, als unsere enge Zusammenarbeit im Sommer 1974 endetet, um meine eigene Arbeit fortzuführen. Ich fand im gleichen Gebäude ein Studio, das ich beinahe vierzig Jahre beibehielt.
Weit entfernt von meinen beiden Freunden, hielt ich an vielen geteilten Erfahrungen fest, die sich tief in meine Erinnerung eingeschrieben haben. Neue kulturelle Einflüsse mischten sich nahtlos und verbanden mein deutsches Erbe mit meinem neu gewählten Zuhause. Über die Jahre bleiben wir drei enge Freunde.
Rainer Gross - June 2017
This is the second exhibition we are doing together with the gallery.
After 40 years "Ludwig II in a golden frame" from 1977 it is being seen in Munich.
Arriving in the East Village in New York in 1972, I noticed the Bauhaus estetic had not made any inroads into Latin furniture design. Most funiture places in the area were full of elaborate baroque style headboards and "king style" chairs. So I decided to combine the new found late Latin Baroque with the offical portrait of Ludwig II, who was also late to this style. The result blended both experiences.
Graf & Schelble Galerie Spalenvorstadt 14 T +41 61 261 09 11 CH-4051 Basel
www.grafschelble.ch grafschelble@vtxmail.ch
Mojé Assefjah (DE) Pepe Cerdá (ES) Lucia Coray (CH) Claudia Desgranges (DE) Max Diel (DE) Rainer Gross (USA - DE) Tamas Konok (HU) Kühne I Klein (CH) Nelly Rudin (CH) Christina Spoerri (CH)
Both galleries will show works this Spring.
Galerie Rother - Winter Wiesbaden - May 13th until June 17th, (with Thomas Reifenscheid, sculpture)
Galerie Filser und Gräf - Munich - May 5th until June 16th, 2017 (solo exhibition)
https://www.filserundgraef.de/
I wrote these songs over the last few years and spent time with some wonderful musicians here in New York recoding them. These arrangements incorporate many different genres. I am currently working on new material for Vol.2.
Showing a selection of my paintings 2005-2015 in Ketchum ID. with Frederic Boloix Fine Art though February 2016.
www.boloix.com -
The gallery will present a solo exhibition of CONTACT PAINTINGS and works on paper.
Two of my large paintings from 1979 and 1982 are included
Expressionism paintings impress at art museum
2014-08-08
Shanghai Daily
The biggest exhibition this summer is now under way at the China Art Museum, the former China Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai.
Titled "Together: 2014 Gallery Group Exhibition," it involves an unprecedented seven exhibits simultaneously, all dealing with the style of expressionism. Paintings from Chinese and Western countries are included.
"Expressionism painting was almost a spiritual base for pursuit of China's earlier education at art academies," says Xu Jiang, director of China Academy of Fine Arts and chief counselor of the exhibition. "In fact, expressionism painting echoes with Oriental implicative painting.
"However, for a long time, Expressionism was attacked by the mainstream that was dominated with realism and traditional Chinese painting in the country."
In the early 1980s, under China's opening-up policy, Expressionism soon emerged as a rebellious spirit.
"One of the meanings of Expressionism lies in the power of observation," Xu says. "The mission of painting is actually making the invisible into the visible."
For visitors who are curious about the development of Expressionism in China or how the Expressionism trend varied in the West, this is a must-see exhibit.
"Through these seven exhibitions, we are trying to build a platform for an academic dialogue between the East and the West," say Shi Dawei, director of the China Art Museum. "For example, we selected the paintings from ten masters of Chinese art history of the 20th century to unveil the implicative style with Expressionism elements in Chinese modern painting."
Besides the Chinese heavyweights such as Guan Liang and Lin Fengmian, visitors will find Western masters like Ansel Kiefer and Jorg Immendorff.
"Today, the digital era almost thoroughly changed our life. Only a finger touch on your smartphone or iPad opens a new visual world," says Xu. "But through these exhibitions, we want to readdress the importance of hand labor in art with a profound consideration of life and art.
"Visual art is not about something that the finger slides or touches, I hope that more visitors can come and see the exhibitions here at the museum. The visual power and experience is truly hidden behind these artworks."
Two of my large representational paintings from 1979 and 1982 are included at the China Museum in Shanhai.
