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MAURIZIO CATTELAN

Museum für Moderne Kunst presents:
MAURIZIO CATTELAN

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
Domstrasse 10, 60311 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Tues.-Sun. 10 am to 5 pm
Wed. 10 am to 8 pm, Mon. closed

Tel. +49 (0)69 212 30447
Fax: +49 (0)69 212 37882
mmk@stadt-frankfurt.de
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de

For more information go to: http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de

Middelheim Museum

PAUL McCARTHY | AIR BORN – AIR BORNE – AIR PRESSURE
May 27 - October 28, 2007

Middelheim Museum
Middelheimlaan 61
B-2020 Antwerpen
Tel. +32 (0)3 828 13 50
+32 (0)3 827 15 34
Fax +32 (0)3 825 28 35
middelheimopenluchtmuseum@stad.antwerpen.be
http://www.middelheimmuseum.be

Since the end of the 1960s Paul McCarthy (VS, °1945), one of the most significant living artists, has been steadily working on what has since become an impressive body of work. He focuses on sex and aggression and in doing so criticizes the symbolic violence in our culture, which is teeming with mass media and family values. Paintings, videos, performances and sculptures are the arsenal for a scorching attack on the culture which the artist lives in.

The exhibition at the Middelheim Museum demonstrates that even today it is still hard to fully grasp McCarthy. He continues to surprise us, at present with monumental inflatable sculptures, which can be up to thirty metres high. The creations are reminiscent of the inflatable figures used in the ad world. McCarthy has appropriated an existing phenomenon and literally disfigures it. On the occasion of the exhibition he has created five new works.

The eight works on show are dispersed throughout the statue park. Visit the Braem Pavilion to see his scale models in which this transformation takes shape and which might help you understand the artist’s mental and work process.

The unique character of Antwerp’s statue park provides McCarthy with the opportunity to show a large group of inflatable sculptures for the very first time. A worldwide first!

Paul McCarthy I AIR BORN – AIR BORNE – AIR PRESSURE is organized in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth London Zürich.

From 13/10/07 until 13/02/08 the S.M.A.K. (Gent) will be presenting a comprehensive retrospective of Paul McCarthy’s work, including existing and new work. http://www.smak.be

For more information go to: http://www.middelheimmuseum.be

DAAD

WerkRaum 24.
Matthew Buckingham
Everything has a Name

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

8 June – 19 August 2007
Opening: Thursday 7 June 2007, 7pm

An Exhibition by the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD in collaboration with the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof

Matthew Buckingham’s work is devoted to the historical enquiry into names and their origin. His film, Muhheakantuck – Everything has a name, investigates the question how the Hudson River acquired its name. Filmed from a helicopter following the riverbank from Manhattan to Beacon, the film’s added voice-track recounts the story of the Hudson. Images, texts and biographies are simultaneously the subject-matter of Matthew Buckingham’s work and the means by which it achieves its form.

This is also the case in his latest work Everything I need, dedicated to the biography of Charlotte Wolf, a Jewish doctor and psychologist. Wolf emigrated from Berlin, worked in Paris and London and finally, in August 1978, returned to Berlin. By superimposing texts upon images of the empty interior of a ‘70s-style passenger aeroplane, Matthew Buckingham in this work comments on the different stages of Charlotte Wolf’s life.

Finally, his third large video-work, which was made in 2006 for the Liverpool Biennale, deals with Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. This film, entitled Obscure Moorings, is shown in a wave-like cinema construction.

The voyage theme, as the telling of historical facts using symbolic images, is discernable as the leitmotiv of Matthew Buckingham’s work. Thus, the exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof leads the viewer to different places and sites in cities and landscapes. The knowledge of what lies behind a name corresponds to images that in a two-fold way suggest the theme of voyage: as a journey to these various places and as a point from which to enter the story of our culture.

Matthew Buckingham was born in Nevada, Iowa in 1963. He lives and works in New York. He has participated with his film works in international group exhibitions since the late 1990s. Comprehensive solo exhibitions have taken place in the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna in 2003 and in the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster in 2005. Until 1 July 2007, Matthew Buckingham’s most recent work can be viewed in his solo exhibition “Play the Story” at the Camden Arts Centre London.

http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
http://www.daad-berlin.de

Opening Hours: Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-8pm. Sun 11am-6pm

For further information and visual material, please contact:

artpress – Ute Weingarten
Fon: +49-30-21961843
Fax: +49-30-21961847
Mob: +49-175-221561
artpress@uteweingarten.de

For more information go to: http://www.daad-berlin.de