Catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 2018 With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Zhang Xiaoling, Zhu Qi, Peng Feng, Cai Pengcheng, Lennart Utterstrom, Yang Wie
Ed.: Beate Reifenscheid English, German 231 pages with 161 coloured illustrations, 30.0 x 24.0 cm, hardcover Wienand publishing house, 2018 ISBN 978-3-86832-454-9
Shao Fan occupies a special place within contemporary Chinese painting. He is a master of the painterly technique of classical ink drawing, which he develops into a new artistic language through his unique method of condensing and concentrating his motifs. The protagonists of his monumental paintings are animals. Whether monkeys, hares, or horses, they are less illustrations of their natural physiques than archetypes and hybrid creatures between man and animal.
With texts by Hendrik Bündge, Anne Buschhoff, Eunju Choi, Robert Fleck, Harald Kunde, Gunda Luyken, Hans-Werner Schmidt and Christina Végh as well as a conversation between Beate Reifenscheid and the artist.
English/German 136 pages, 80 colour illustrations, hardcover with linen, American dust jacket, 25 × 31 cm Distanz Verlag (Berlin), 2017
ISBN 978-3-95476-160-9
The landscapes of Jongsuk Yoon (born in 1965 in Onyang, Korea; lives and works in Düsseldorf and Seoul) can be stylistically assigned to a new Abstract Expressionism. Despite all the painterly movement and seemingly chaotic lines, the abstract-expressive paintings and drawings always contain a moment of silence, of slowness. Seemingly naively staged steep mountains, paths, hats, animals and pavilions evoke the artist’s Asian roots and remind us of her childhood in Korea. One searches in vain for a meaning or a story in these “mind landscapes”, in which dreams and experiences condense into ever new images, as in a kaleidoscope. Instead, Yoon interweaves the European painting tradition with the Asian formal language and aesthetics. She is particularly interested in the human being between nature and culture and how this relationship can be represented artistically.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Kader Attia. Architecture of Memory, 5.11.2017-21.1.2018, Ludwig Museum Koblenz With texts by Demosthenes Davvetas, Clémentine Deliss, Beate Reifenscheid
Ed. Beate Reifenscheid 152 pages, 63 colour illustrations, flap-bound, paperback, 24.00 × 30.00 cm languages: German, English Kerber Publishing House, 2017 ISBN 978-3-7356-4034-5
The Algerian-French artist Kader Attia (*1970) is an internationally acclaimed artist. His installations and photographs are based on profound ethnological, sociological and philosophical research. A central topos is the influence of colonialism on Western and non-Western cultures and the processes it causes. The focus of the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz is the film “Réfléchir la Mémoire”, for which Kader Attia received the renowned Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2016. The accompanying publication presents selected works that reflect on the theme of architecture and the memory that manifests itself in it.
With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Chirikure Chirikure, Maren Bodenstein and Lindiwe Mabuza
German/ English/ French 216 pages, 24.6 x 2.5 x 30.6 cm Prestel Publishing House ISBN-10: 3791357034 ISBN-13: 978-3791357034
From the 1950s until 2003 Ruth Baumgarte (1923-2013) travelled to Africa more than forty times, preferably to South, East and Central Africa. The internationally renowned artist, who studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1940s, was first an illustrator and press illustrator from 1945 to 1950, then a freelance painter and graphic artist. Throughout her life, she retained the sovereign, rapid strokes of situational drawing in her highly individual style of painting. Ruth Baumgarte finds her true fulfillment especially on her expeditions to Africa, whose beauty and fascination have captivated her just as much as the social and political discrepancies that she addresses in her works.
This richly illustrated publication presents Ruth Baumgarte’s expressive, blazingly coloured impressions of Africa, which represent a deeply felt perception of the black continent and are of great suggestive power and reflection.
With texts by Jorge Antonio Fernández Torres, Beate Reifenscheid
Ed.: Oscar J. Antuña Benítez, Beate Reifenscheid German/English 21 x 27 cm pages, 120 illustrations Silvana Editoriale, 2017 ISBN 9788836637997
The all-encompassing reference to nature is the most characteristic feature of Tony Cragg’s oeuvre, which can be found both in his sculptures and in his graphic work. With his inquiring and emotionally driven enthusiasm for variability, Tony Cragg creates and develops an inexhaustible repertoire of new forms and shapes with which he ingeniously sets everyday objects and natural phenomena in motion. The exhibition presents central works from his early work in correspondence with current positions.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, March-May 2017 With texts from: Rainer Gross, Mark R. Hesslinger, Sam Hunter, Jörn Merkert, Wolfgang Niedecken, Carolyn Oldenbusch, Beate Reifenscheid
Ed.: Beate Reifenscheid, Mark R. Hesslinger 24 x 30 cm, 184 pages, 105 illustrations German/English Silvana Editoriale, 2017 ISBN 9788836636167
In 1972, the already famous curator Harald Szeemann Howard Kanovitz – together with the Americans Chuck Close and Richard Estes, the British painter Malcolm Morley, the Swiss artist Franz Gertsch and the Germans Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke – invited to participate in documenta 5 in Kassel as exponents of photography-based painting. Kanovitz also took part in documenta 6 in 1977. He received solo exhibitions from museums in other cities, including Utrecht, Duisburg, Berlin and Hanover.
Visible Difference at the Museum Ludwig, Koblenz, is Kanovitz’ first solo exhibition in a museum since 1980 and offers the opportunity to rediscover this master of Pop Art and Photorealism, to trace his artistic development by means of groundbreaking works from his oeuvre and to conduct a scientific examination of his artistic significance in retrospect.
Published in the context of the exhibition in the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 2017. With a contribution by Andreas Backoefer and a conversation between Grimanesa Amorós and Tim Goossens
Ed. Beate Reifenscheid
German / English 128 pages, 60 illustrations, 24 x 28 cm, hardcover Hirmer publishing house, 2016 ISBN: 978-3-7774-2648-8
Impressive light installations full of beauty and poetry
Presentation of the room-filling works in large format
First publication of Grimanesa Amorós’ most recent works as well as an overview of her work (2017)
Organic forms and an instinctive approach characterize the work of the award-winning Peruvian-American light artist Grimanesa Amorós. The basis of her fascinating sculptures, however, are the natural sciences, social history and critical theory. Thus, in her works, research and emotion enter into communication.
The space-filling sculptures and video installations by Amorós have already been shown around the globe: from Mexico to Tel Aviv and Beijing to Times Square in New York. She presented her latest works OCUPANTE and GOLDEN SECRET ROOM at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz in 2016. The artist creates playful light installations, which in their enigma allow for multi-layered interpretations. Together with an overview of her work, the volume presents these works in large-format illustrations and expresses their fluidity and luminosity.
With texts by Beate Reifenscheid, Wolfgang Ellenrieder, Antonio Eligio (Tonel), Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Ed. Beate Reifenscheid, Ludwig Museum Koblenz German/English 192 pages, 120 colour illustrations, 24 x 30 cm ISBN 9788836634484 Silvana Editoriale, 2016
As early as 1995, husband-and-wife art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig set up the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba to demonstrate their close attachment to the country and the artists who live there. At the time, it was seen as looking beyond the established cultural centres and art market trends. It was definitely a risk because the Communist state under Fidel Castro barely allowed any freedom of movement, let alone freedom of expression. Aware of this situation and bound by the major commitment they felt towards artists in Cuba, in the few years up until the premature death of Peter Ludwig, they collected a large number of works which even today have not lost their visual and conceptual power. Amongst them are works by Belkis Ayón Manso, José Bedia Valdés, Los Carpinteros, Antonio Eligio Fernandez, Kcho, Marta Mariá Pérez Bravo and others.
Since the politically significant restoration of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, a new art scene has flourished. Another period of radical change is looming which will proceed this time in an incredibly exciting and also very topical context in relation to the international art market.
This exhibition shows the relationships between the older pieces from the collection and the new forms of the Cuban art scene.
Artists: Adrián Fernández Milanés, Adonis Flores, Diana Fonseca, Carlos Garaicoa, Alex Hérnandez Dueñas, Glenda Léon, Frank Mujica Chávez, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez, José Bedia Valdés, Iván Capote Puentes, Yoan Capote, Liset Castillo, Ariamna Contino Mendoza, Robert Fabelo, Carlos Quintana Ledesma, Los Carpinteros, Kcho
Exhibition: Koblenz, Ludwig Museum, April – June 2016
With text contributions by Julian Schnabel, Denis Pavlovich Adushin, Chuck Manion, Wayne Magrin, Alejandro Garmendia, Vahakn Arslanian, Nick Mead, Lola Montes, Dave Perry, Thomas Chapman, Michel Chow
Ed. by Julian Schnabel, New York 2016 English 100 pages, 30 colour illustrations
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fabrizio Plessi. Lyquid Labyrinth, Budapest (Hungary), Ludwig Museum, January – April 2014 / Koblenz (Germany), Ludwig Museum, June – August 2014 With contributions from Beate Reifenscheid and Anna Bálványos
Ed. Beate Reifenscheid German/English 24 x 28.5 cm, 144 pages, 100 colour illustrations Silvana Editoriale, 2014 ISBN 9788836628629
Fabrizio Plessi (Reggio Emilia, 1940) is one of the most remarkable and most popular Italian contemporary artists, who is foremost known for his large size, spectacular video installations. In his artworks Fabrizio Plessi merges modern technology – moving image and sound – with the simplest materials like wood or stone, in a most natural way. His spectacular works, often of large dimensions, usually exercise a deep impact on the audience, and it is almost impossible to remain unaffected.
A special feature of this exhibition – displayed at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and Koblenz – is going to be an installation titled Liquid Labyrinth, that has never been exhibited anywhere else before. Another artwork Llaüt Light calls our attention to a current social problem: on Mallorca, which is the artist’s second home, old fishing boats were destroyed for reasons of environment protection. The conflict between sustainable development and tradition is actually present in all domains of human life. Plessi’s work facilitates collective thinking and discussion on issues of nature and society and helps to find adequate solutions.
Exhibition: Budapest (Hungary), Ludwig Museum, January – April 2014 / Koblenz (Germany), Ludwig Museum, June – August 2014
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