30 May 2008 – 17 August 2008

back to black - black in recent painting

Black has always been a challenge for painters, not only because of its symbolic meaning. The black square by Kasimir Malewitsch is an incunable of modernity. Black is the absence of colour. The perception itself is complex, because within black contrasts can hardly form. After the terrific exhibition of “Black Paintings” with Frank Stella, Ad Reinhard, Mark Rothko, amongst others in the “Haus der Kunst” in Munich, we present current contemporary artists who engage in the subject matter of black images.

Artists: Pablo Alonso, Janis Avotins, Armin Boehm, Rafal Bujnowski, André Butzer, Philipp Haager, Gregor Hildebrandt, Andreas Hofer, Udomsak Krisanamis, Rezi van Lankveld, Victor Man, Jonathan Meese, Peter Peri, Pat Rosenmeier, Wilhelm Sasnal, Yehudit Sasportas, Emanuel Seitz, Florian Süssmayr, Ned Vana, Thomas Zipp

Address

Kestnergesellschaft
Goseriede 11
30159 Hannover
phone +49 511 70 12 00
http://www.kestner.org

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.,
Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.,
closed on Monday,
Holidays 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

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