Johannes Kahrs
Johannes Kahrs was born 1965 BirthBremen, Germany.
Lives and works in HomeBerlin.
Categories: Drawing
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like earlier works by kahrs, many of the images are based on documentary photography and film stills as well as images from his own archive. the imagery the artist selects features physical confrontation which is often highly sexualized, political and even violent in subject matter. his interpretations of the original works are often blurred, cropped or distorted, distancing the viewer from the reference point….
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Untitled (Man with Light)
Johannes Kahrs’s large-scale canvases take their imagery from popular media: press photos, newsreel and film stills. Presented without context of their origin, Kahrs’s paintings merge the banal and horrific, as his generic subjects become monumentalised and frozen in non-sequential time…
“People sometimes say the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen to you in real life, that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really happen to you, it’s like watching television—you don’t…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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