Posted on January 6, 2010.
About Isa Genzken Exhibitions and paintings at Saatchi-Gallery Isa Genzken was born 1948 in Bad Oldesloe and currently lives and works in Berlin, has an elegance Germany.Urlaub ridiculous, wedged between the design high and holiday festivities. Based on the concept of minimalist abstraction objective, work Genzken straddles spheres of formalist purity and interpreting narrative. Entrenched in the manufacturing process, labor Genzken is the result of its intimate interaction with materials, tempering the procedure formal decision with the spontaneity of imaginative play. kitsch objects like leaves, plastic figurines, and a glass of wine oversized conduct their own associative references while acting as a neutral compositional elements of shape, color and texture. Urlaub breathes fantasy of escape, while maintaining a refined order, punishable as a microcosm of surreal fancy vs. justification.
Isa Genzken EDUCATION:
1993-1997
aec Art Academy of Dasseldorf
1993-1975
aec studied history of art and philosophy at the University of Cologne
1971-1973
aec Berlin University of Fine Arts
1969-1971
aec Hamburg College of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
aec Der Spiegel 1989-1991: Isa Genzken, The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
aec Kinder Filmen, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
New Work, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2004
aec Wasserspeier and angels, Hauser & Wirth, London, United Kingdom
aec Objects of art in China, Los Angeles, CA
aec International Prize for Art, Culture donation SSK Munich, Munich, Germany
2003
aec Isa Genzken, Kunsthalle Zarich, Zurich, Switzerland] [catalog
aec Empire Vampire Teil II, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
aec The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY
2002
aec Haare wachsen, wie sie wollen, Skulpturenprojekt Meerrettich Gallery (Josef Strau), Berlin, Germany
aec Museum Manchengladbach Abeiberg] [catalog
aec Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2001
aec Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
aec Magnani, London, United Kingdom
aec Science Fiction / Heir Sein und jetzt zufrieden, AC-Saal (Wolfgang Tillmans)
aec Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany] [catalog
Conclusions
Isa Genzken has been making a name for itself with a work including sculpture, photography, film, video, works on paper and canvas, collages and books.
What to do next ...
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