 Torso, 1999 acrylic and lackspray on canvas, 267 x 250 cm Andreas Dobler Andreas Dobler's preferred medium is painting. During the course of his anything but linear career characterized by recurring excursions into other cultural areas including music, film and theater, painting remains the most constant element in his activity. Distancing himself drastically from the inquiring issues of radical painting – one of the few creative expressions in the 90s not regarded as wholly anachronistic – Dobler has committed himself from the beginning to figuration. It is his aim, not to reflect on painting and its art historical implications, but to give form in the most economic and exact manner possible to the whole host of his inner conceptions through the medium of painting. Strongly affected in his youth by pop music, by the psychedelic culture and its related neo-surrealism of the 60's and 70's as well as by science fiction and comic aesthetics, Dobler still continues to draw from the resource of media-influenced youth and commonplace culture. Although his predilection for the fantastic was temporarily quashed at the School of Arts in Basel his interest in trivial subjects, popular cultural phenomena and the aesthetic fringes of art have persisted. He has sustained a balancing act between the artistic tradition of pop art, postmodern trash and rubbish, and in so doing echoes the works of Martin Kippenberger or Jim Shaw, to cite just two examples. In this exhibition, Dobler presents his most recent paintings as well as a selection of previous works (paintings and drawings), thus facilitating an overview of his work since 1985. Accompanying the exhibit, a Patrick Frey edition catalogue is available. 254 pages, 24 x 17 cm, ill. color and b/w, texts by Nadia Schneider, conversation with Andreas Dobler, in German and English. Exhibition organized in collaboration with Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland. March 16 – June 1, 2003 Hours: Tue-Sun 12 - 7 pm MAGASIN Centre national d'art contemporain Site Bouchayer - Viallet 155 Cours Berriat F-38028 Grenoble Cedex 1 Tel. +33 (0)4 76 21 95 84 Fax. +33 (0)4 76 21 24 22 E-Mail communication@magasin-cnac.org www.magasin-cnac.org |
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