Isa Genzken In Amsterdam
Isa Genzken In Amsterdam

Video: Isa Genzken In Amsterdam

Video: Isa Genzken In Amsterdam
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Isa Genzken, who conquered New York's MoMA (her first retrospective in the United States could be seen in 2013), is taking her significant works to Amsterdam, where this season she is hosted by the best Museum of Contemporary Art in the city - Stedelik. The latter first acquired the work of Genzken in 1985 and since then has been actively following her extraordinary work, the essence of which the artist best describes herself. “I always wanted to have the courage to do absolutely crazy, impossible, and also wrong things,” Genzken assured 20 years ago, and her work leaves no doubt about it. Anyone who is surprised at Aya Weiwei's manipulations with ancient Chinese vases (a new reason for this is given by the artist's retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London) should take a look at Genzken's experiment with Nefertiti busts.albeit less destructive: it does not break and paint relics like Weiwei, and does not twist them in a "spiral", and does not mask, like Wim Delvoye, but, rethinking the past, moves in a similar direction. Nofretete, along with her other works, will be included in one of the sections of the Dutch retrospective dedicated to modernity, the human body, portrait, urban culture and architecture.

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Isa Genzken. Nofretete, 2014

The visual language of this influential German artist (who, however, is not limited to sculptures alone) demands from the audience both freshness in her eyes and a sense of humor. It is constantly evolving, embracing various media and demonstrating ingenuity in everything, be it installations, video, painting, work on paper, collages or photography. The richness of references to history, autobiography, the ability to bring innovations to everyday life and find high in everyday objects have won Genzken the love of the audience involved in art, art dealers and collectors. According to the director of the museum, Beatrice Raf, she has become a source of inspiration for a whole generation of young artists, and now Stedelik's mission is to introduce 66-year-old Isa Genzken to a wide audience.

A new exhibition by Isa Genzken will open during the capital's art weekend Amsterdam Art Weekend 2015 and will be available at the Stedelijk Museum from November 29 to March 6, 2016.

Isa Genzken. Da Vinci, 2003

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Isa Genzken. Schwarz-gelbes Ellipsoid Kümmel ', 1981

Isa Genzken. Fenster, 1990

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