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About Artist Stef Driesen Art Work and His Paintings at the Saatchi Gallery

December 31st, 2009

Influenced by the works of Northern European Old Masters, Stef Driesen’s paintings often incorporate references to art history through their colours, compositions, and subject matter. Through this lineage, Driesen draws from his own personal experiences to create beautifully expressive canvases evoking both emotional and physical sensuality. Using his own sexual identity as a platform for investigation, Driesen’s work expands upon the theme of man and nature: each canvas conceals a human form within his abstracted landscapes, creating a symbiosis between the romantic sublime and mortal carnality.

Using a fleshy, earthy palette, Driesen’s canvases blur the bounds between tangible and psychological space. Watery grounds, delicate brushwork, and intensified tones lend a sense of dream-like terrain, translating materiality of paint into ephemeral fields redolent with contemplation, desire, and loss. In their poetic articulation, Driesen’s paintings convey the intimacy of the human condition, rendering it equally fragile and heroic. Watery mountain scapes and dramatic skies frame ambiguously figurative foreground elements. Soft pinks and flashes of azure punctuate dark canvases highlighting rivers through the picture plane and revealing landscapes beyond. Ultimately Stef Driesen’s compositions expand space, opening up an imaginary dimension into a world full of the theatrical and fantastic.

Stef Driesen draws inspiration from the compositions, colour palettes, and themes explored by these Old Masters, and is inspired by the way in which they used all of these elements to project a vision of life in their time, political, religious, romantic or otherwise. Watery mountain scapes and dramatic skies frame ambiguously figurative foreground elements. Soft pinks and flashes of azure punctuate dark canvases highlighting rivers through the picture plane and revealing landscapes beyond. Ultimately Stef Driesen’s compositions expand space, opening up an imaginary dimension into a world full of the theatrical and fantastic.

What to Do Next. . .

If you want any information about Stef Driesen or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/artists/stef_driesen. htm

About Isa Genzken Exhibitions and Paintings at Saatchi-gallery

December 27th, 2009

Isa Genzken was born on 1948 in Bad Oldesloe and currently lives and Works in Berlin, Germany. Urlaub possesses a ridiculous elegance, caught between high design and holiday festivity. Drawing from the Minimalist concept of objective abstraction, Genzken’s work straddles the spheres of formalist purity and narrative interpretation. Entrenched in the process of making, Genzken’s work is the result of her own intimate interaction with materials, tempering the procedure of formal decision-making with the spontaneity of imaginative play. Kitsch objects such as plastic leaves, figurines, and an oversized wine glass carry their own associative references while operating as neutral compositional elements of shape, colour, and texture. Urlaub exudes escapist fantasy while retaining a refined order, culminating as surreal microcosm of caprice vs. rationale.

Isa Genzken EDUCATION:

1993-1997

• Düsseldorf Art Academy

1993-1975

• Studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Cologne

1971-1973

• Berlin University of Fine Arts

1969-1971

• Hamburg College of Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005

• Der Spiegel 1989-1991: Isa Genzken, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK

• Kinder filmen, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

New Work, David Zwirner, New York, NY

2004

• Wasserspeier and Angels, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK

• China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA

• International Art Prize, Cultural Donation of SSK Munich, Munich, Germany

2003

• Isa Genzken, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland [catalogue]

• Empire Vampire Teil II, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany

• The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY

2002

• Haare wachsen, wie sie wollen, Skulpturenprojekt Galerie Meerrettich (Josef Strau), Berlin, Germany

• Museum Abeiberg Mönchengladbach [catalogue]

• Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2001

• Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

• Magnani, London, UK

• Science Fiction/Heir und jetzt zufrieden sein, AC-Saal (with Wolfgang Tillmans),

• Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany [catalogue]

Conclusions:

Isa Genzken has been making a name for herself with an oeuvre including sculpture, photography, film, video, works on paper and canvas, collages and books.

What to Do Next. . .

If you want any information about Isa Genzken or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www. saatchi-gallery. co. uk/artists/isa_genzken. htm

All About Art Galleries

December 7th, 2009

Art galleries also referred to as an art museums are reserved areas where visual art is stored and displayed. They serve as area for art exhibition. Most common type of art exhibited is paintings. Other works include sculptures, photography as well as installation arts. Some museums display applied art pieces of work. Apart from visual art display, art galleries are used to host musical concerts as well as poetry readings. There are various types of galleries. Examples include private as well as public galleries. Private galleries are used for commercial purposes, where entrepreneurs sell their wares to members of the public. People use public galleries for nonprofit making activities such as to enlighten the public on different types of visual art. People use both types as venues for musical as well as poetry functions or concerts. A contemporary art gallery refers to a gallery owned by an individual or privately with an undertaking to make a profit. There are many of such places in different parts of the world. These galleries are typically clustered within an area, in urban centers. For example, many people consider the Chelsea district found within New Yolk City as the center of contemporary art world. Many different tourists tour such galleries where they learn and observe different styles of painting, sculpture as well as modeling. Other types of galleries include online galleries where artists form websites and post pieces of work via the internet. Prior to one viewing such work, one pays online, thus promoting the artwork. Online galleries have proven themselves as the way to the future, due to realization of huge profits and minimization of costs. To visit an online gallery, one needs not travel to the physical location of the gallery. One needs to log in to the particular website and then view the artwork. These places receive numerous visitors from all over the world, resulting in high margins and profits. There are numerous online art gallery websites; due to stiff competition, costs of visiting these galleries are low thus favoring the consumer. Prior to opening such websites, one should compare different online site formats and settle with the gallery format, which houses their tastes and preferences. Other types of galleries include vanity galleries. These galleries show members of the public the artists’ work. Artists pay such galleries for their work. Since a piece of artwork has the artists resume, tourists are able to contact artists for artwork services. Vanity art galleries work similar to an artwork-advertising firm. Within an art gallery, not every visual art is displayed for visualization. Examples includes aged master prints. Such paintings are stored within safe rooms for conservation purposes. They have a different form of architecture, established by Sir John Soane who designed the famous Dulwich picture gallery back in 1817. The gallery has places for hanging pictures and other visual artwork. This place has an indirect sky -lighting system. These galleries are a source of revenue because they serve as tourist attraction sites. Apart from commercial purposes, they serve as national heritage symbols where they display talents and history of different countries.