Contemporary Art Daily

Artists: John Armleder, Vittorio Brodmann, Valentin Carron, Stéphane Dafflon, René Daniëls, Philippe Decrauzat, Andreas Dobler, Jason Fox, Mathis Gasser, Vidya Gastaldon, Jack Goldstein, Wade Guyton, Daniel Hesidence, Mamie Holst, David Hominal, Karen Kilimnik, Jutta Koether, Lang/Baumann, Sherrie Levine, Luigi Lurati, Marlene McCarty, Stephen O’Malley, Steven Parrino, Mai-Thu Perret, Hans Schärer,  Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Michael Scott, Blair Thurman, John Tremblay, Meyer Vaisman, Julia Wachtel, Aldo Walker, Dan Walsh

Venue: Kunsthalle Bern

Exhibition Title: The Old, the New, the Different

Date: February 4 – March 25, 2012

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Kunsthalle Bern

Press Release:

The Old, the New, the Different brings together around forty-five paintings by thirty-four artists. The exhibition was built from the ground up: rather than work from some higher predetermined theory about painting, works were selected for the individual stories they themselves relay. Stories about art in general and painting in particular, stories about the world and how it feels to be part of it.

From psychedelic retinal overload to Cold Wave elegiac monuments, and from hard-edged optimism to a Punk rock theater of sentiments, each one of the Kunsthalle’s seven rooms attempts create a distinct space for painting that is first and foremost designed to be experienced physically.

The Old, the New, the Different is neither a picture of a given time nor a map of a particular place. Rather, it builds on a number of ongoing trans-generational as well as transatlantic lines of flight – which I first became aware of, living in New York twenty years ago, browsing through the catalogues of a number of painting shows a local curator and critic, Robert Nickas, had organized in Switzerland.

A break from our current dystopian mood, in the words of Steven Parrino: «Radicality comes from content and not necessarily form. The forms are radical in memory by way of continuing the once radical, through extensions of its history. The avant-garde leaves a wake and, through mannerist force, continues forward. Even on the run, we sometimes look over our shoulders, approaching art with intuition rather than strategy. Art of this kind is more cult than culture.»

– Fabrice Stroun

Link: Group Show at Kunsthalle Bern

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