{"id":298,"date":"2020-12-13T21:05:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T21:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/?post_type=exhibitions&#038;p=298"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:39:04","slug":"back-then-has-always-been-now","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/de\/exhibitions\/back-then-has-always-been-now\/","title":{"rendered":"BACK THEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Painting since 1947 reconsidered, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, 04. Sep 2020 \u2013 05. Sep 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GdG-3.Stock_bighead-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GdG-3.Stock_bighead-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GdG-3.Stock_bighead-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GdG-3.Stock_bighead-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>f.l.t.r. Giacometti, Greiner, Dubuffet                       Photo: Jan Steinke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paintings are always an expression of their time and their creators\u2019 individuality. Once they have made it to the museum wall, they begin to shape the image of their era. Paintings become iconic when they unerringly reflect a certain period, when they become the distinct image of their present day. Though paintings age over time, their content remains unaltered: to us as observers, their \u00bbbefore\u00ab is a \u00bbnow\u00ab&nbsp;at any given time. Painting, therefore, is just as much a testimony to the moment of its creation as it is eternal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new presentation of the Kunsthalle\u2019s collection of paintings since 1947 staged in the skylight rooms of the Gallery of Contemporary Art explores the field between the two poles \u00bbpresent\u00ab and \u00bbeternity\u00ab. Considering that they are on display at the Gallery of Contemporary Art, the question arises, that museums are generally concerned with, as to when the present actually begins and whether it is a period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition juxtaposes seemingly incongruous, demanding mutual tolerance from the participating artists (and their works). Figurative painting from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) \u2013 collected by the Kunsthalle early on \u2013 is confronted with the broken figuration after 1945 in France, Minimalism meets Pop art, gestural abstraction encounters ironical figuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On view are works by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Werner B\u00fcttner, Sam Francis, K.O. G\u00f6tz,&nbsp;Johannes Gr\u00fctzke,&nbsp;Sabrina Haunsperg, Almut Heise, J\u00f6rg Immendorff,&nbsp;Konrad Klapheck, Willem De Kooning,&nbsp;Hanns Kunitzberger,&nbsp;Maria Lassnig, Richard Lindner,&nbsp;Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, Werner T\u00fcbke,&nbsp;Cy Twombly, Wols, Haegue Yang, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text: Hamburger Kunsthalle official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting since 1947 reconsidered, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, 04. Sep 2020 \u2013 05. Sep 2021 Paintings are always an expression of their time and their creators\u2019 individuality. Once they have made it to the museum wall, they begin to shape the image of their era. Paintings become iconic when they unerringly reflect a certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":303,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danagreiner.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}