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Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky. September 28 - December 14, 2008 PinchukArtCentre
PinchukArtCentre
presents the exhibition Rhine on the
Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky from September 28 to December 14, 2008, devoted to the Weeks of German Culture in Ukraine.
The
exhibition, which inaugurates the third year of PinchukArtCentre's activities is
unprecedented in its scale, selection of names and media collision to see - moving
screen image and photo statics compressing tightly space and time. The exhibits
will be hosted by three floors of PinchukArtCentre. The first large-scale
exhibition in Ukraine
of renowned German photographer Andreas Gursky will demonstrate 24 mega-photos created
from 1987 to 2008. The exhibition will also display 18 video installations of
selected works of Julia Stoschek Collection. The third component of the unique
international cultural project comprises the concert of the legendary Kraftwerk,
pathfinders in electronic music, at the exhibition opening on September 27.
Gursky
deserves fully his nickname "God's Eye". He is peculiar in his
meta-visualizing actualized in digital era. Reality heading with its powerful
stream of visual images generates need for panoramic visual perception as it
does not differentiate between primary and secondary importance, parts and
integrity. The emerging integrity has no clear-cut hierarchy and concealed
image manipulation. Fragments of reality are sewed together so skillfully that
one can not discern but only guess about the stitches. Gursky's photo collages
depicting fronts of anonymous skyscrapers, vast office spaces, gatherings of stock
brokers, huge landscapes, circuits and race cars of Formula 1, interiors of
galleries or clubs, strike the audience with their dualism: notwithstanding
their hyperrealism one can not believe his eyes that this is reality but not fiction,
phantom...
The first
time Julia Stoschek has presented her private collection of contemporary art
works focusing on the cutting-edge media - video, photography and installation
only recently, in 2007, in
Dusseldorf at
the exhibition Number One: Destroy, She
Said. PinchukArtCentre will host works of both artists of classical
videoart period of end 60s, namely, Bruce Nauman, and contemporary video art
adepts, such as Christian Jankowski and Robert Boyd, which discover diverse
approaches to destruction/creation of the internal/external.
Exhibition Rhine on
the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky is open to visitors in
PinchukArtCentre from September 28 to December 14, 2008. Open hours: 12.00 - 21.00 on Tuesday-Sunday. Admission is
free..
Address of
PinchukArtCentre:
1/3-2, "А" Block,
Krasnoarmeyskaya/Basseynaya, St.,
Bessarabskiy Block, Kyiv , Ukraine 01 004
tel.+38(044)590-08-58
e-mail: [email protected]
www.pinchukartcentre.org
Note to editors
Julia Stoschek was born
in Koburg (Germany)
in 1975. She lives and works in Dusseldorf.
Main activities: collecting, support of cultural projects, arts patronage. In
2003-2006 she financed a number of exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary
Art (MOMA) and Centre of Contemporary Art PS1 in New York,
in the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Berlin; founded
non-profitable scholarship program "Kunstlerstipendium Just e.V." in Dusseldorf for local
young artists. Year 2007 was the first for her to present her collection of
contemporary art works focusing on the cutting-edge media - video, photography
and installation. Currently Julia Stoschek Collection claims for 374 works.
Official
site: www.julia-stoschek-collection.net
Andreas Gursky was born
in Leipzig (Germany). He lives and works in Dusseldorf. In 1981-87 he
studied at the State Academy of Art (Kunstakademie) in Dusseldorf. He was lectured by Bernd and
Hilla Becher, married couple, world-wide renowned photographers and lecturers,
who were awarded with Hasselblad Award, the most reputable photography award,
in 2004. Starting from 1985 he was stakeholder of a vast array of group and
personal exhibitions held in the top-notch world centers and museums of
contemporary art, as PS1 (New York), Tate Gallery (Liverpool), MOMA (New York),
Jorge Pompidou Center (Paris), Venice Biennale etc.
PinchukArtCentre was
opened in September of 2006 to become one of the largest centers of
contemporary art in Eastern Europe. The main
activities of the center are organization of exhibitions of international and
Ukrainian artists, support of cultural projects and others. Since the beginning
of its functioning PinchukArtCentre has conducted 7 large-scale exhibitions
visited by nearly 400 thousand people. In spring of 2008 PinchukArtCentre
opened Project Room to host exhibitions of young Ukrainian and foreign
artists. In June- November of 2007
PinchukArtCentre represented Ukraine
at 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale with exposition A Poem about an Inland
Sea.
Victor Pinchuk Foundation is one of the largest charity organizations of Ukraine founded by Mr. Victor Pinchuk, businessman and art patron, in 2006. The Foundation develops and implements social projects aimed at Ukraine's development and production of the new generation of Ukrainian leaders. The priorities of the Foundation comprise health care, education, culture, human rights, global integration of Ukraine and local community developmen. The largest projects of the Foundation include: Ukraine-wide network of centers for newborn care Cradles of Hope, scholarship program Zavtra.ua, center of contemporary art PinchukArtCenter The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a member of the European Foundation Centre and of the Ukrainian Grantmakers Forum; it is the partner of Yalta European Strategy (YES) and cooperates with Global Clinton Initiative and other NGOs.
