100 Years Anton Stankowski: A Retrospective at the
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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Anton Stankowski,
Logoentwurf Deutsche Bank, 1974,
©Stankowski Stiftung
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Anton Stankowski (1906-1998) spent his life studying the art of omission.
The result is a vast work of fine and applied art, which the
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is now exhibiting in commemoration of the German
artist's 100th birthday. Beginning on April 8, Stankowski's paper works
and abstract canvases will be shown alongside experimental photographs and
design commissions that influence graphic design to this day. One of his
most memorable commissions was the Deutsche Bank logo. Stankowski, many of
whose works belong to the company collection and whose retrospective is
being sponsored by the bank, designed the logo in 1974. He is considered
to be one of the fathers of corporate design, although - or perhaps
because - he allowed his artistic impulses to enter into his commercial
graphic work.
Graphic Masterpieces from the Peter Blum Edition
Eric Fischl, The Year of the Drowned Dog, 1983
It's the first museum exhibition to show this much printmaking from the
late 20th century: beginning on April 23, The Museum of Fine Arts in
Houston (MFAH) is
showing
Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994, a large
collection of over 400 works including studies and trial prints. In the
early eighties, the critic and art dealer
Peter Blum decided to publish editions of American and European artists of
his generation.
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Instead of individual works, artists such as
Alex Katz and
A.R. Penck,
Louise Bourgeois and
Rosemarie Trockel created series of prints that together form a total
work of art. "Blum counts among the most important art publishers of the
20th century," as Peter Marzio, Director of the MFAH, explains; Marzio
owns a copy of each edition. The prints, which include Blum's very first
series 8 Experience (1981) by Penck, a work that Deutsche Bank also
purchased early on for its collection, are presented in three subsequent
exhibitions. Deutsche Bank is sponsoring the show.
Full House
- Faces of a Collection
The Kunsthalle Mannheim is
Presenting its Collection in a New Way
The
Kunsthalle Mannheim no longer subscribes to a traditional chronological
hanging or the strict separation of artistic disciplines. The building was
closed for a month due to extensive construction work for Full House -
Faces of a Collection; now the collection is being presented with a
completely new concept: as an in-depth crossover of works from entirely
different decades and genres, all of which have to assert themselves
alongside one another. Work groups of modern art are juxtaposed with
photography, video and media installations of the recent past, with
paintings by
Max Liebermann,
Oskar Kokoschka, and
Claude Monet as well as sculptures by
Auguste Rodin and
Alberto Giacometti. Deutsche Bank, the show's sponsor, was also convinced
by the innovative presentation idea of leading viewers in a non-didactic
way in various stylistic directions, allowing them to discover recurring
themes and motifs themselves. The show runs to the fall.
Francis Bacon, Papst, 1951
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