Martin Kippenberger at SKARSTEDT Markus Lüpertz at MICHAEL

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Martin Kippenberger at SKARSTEDT Markus Lüpertz at MICHAEL

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James Kalm has recently taken a brief hiatus from regularly posting video programs to his KZfaq channels so he could up-grade some of his camera equipment and skills…(Cameras, gimbals, stabilizing and video editing programs etc.)
While scanning upcoming and open exhibitions throughout the city, your correspondent noticed an alignment of a couple of shows by significant German painters. This motivated him to pedal to the Upper East Side for the first time this year.
Martin Kippenberger Paintings 1984-1996 at Skarstedt is a brief yet potent reminder of why this artist is considered one of the most talented and witty painters of the late twentieth century. Although tragic in his life story, Kippenberger created a body if work that exposes his own weaknesses, presents challenges to iconic artists like Picasso, and demonstrates his formal skill as a mischievous provocateur as well as a designer.
Markus Lüpertz has been recognized as a founder of the Neue Wilden, and a Neo-Avantguardist since the mid-1970s. Ironically since then, this “New Beast” has progressed into the past, to present works that meld the most advanced notions of the present state of painting with a distinct sense its own history.
This program was recorded April 1, 2023. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk

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@mementomatrix Жыл бұрын

woww pal great video!!!! thanks

@csnovar Жыл бұрын

The intro was brilliant; very Kippenbergerian.

@marcusjolley1070 Жыл бұрын

Thank you and thank you Kate

@christaarnoldfredl8570 Жыл бұрын

Beeindruckende Ausstellung.

@David_Jaz Жыл бұрын

Lupertz does it for me. Each time I look at one of his paintings I imagine a different narrative of what's going on. His crusty peeling frames are awesome as well.

@petergordon4456 Жыл бұрын

La la La from Scotland enjoyed thanks for showing & for your work input so it’s of to my bed la la . Hope you are well Peter

@thirdrockjul2224 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Kate. ❤

@boogieboxmusic4331 Жыл бұрын

Love the accordion player. I want her to be my grandma..

@christaarnoldfredl8570 Жыл бұрын

Interessant, thanks

@sesvaoffice8331 Жыл бұрын

Glad you're doing this exhibition justice. Another vid blogger gave the impression it was a tiny show and swept through it in seconds.

@jameskalmroughcut Жыл бұрын

I'm a believer in the "New Criticism" theory of "the close reading" not just for literature but for painted images as well...JK

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

"I'm an abstract painter with an imagination" -- Markus Lüpertz, in an artist's talk, 2019. He's a wonderful speaker, can go on for hours without being boring, a very lively spirit.

@michaelrowe1907 Жыл бұрын

Very Good THANK YOU KATE

@skylarkportraitstudio Жыл бұрын

Markus is better than your average bear. Thank you for this look at his work.

@ed-od9sd 4 ай бұрын

James is the king !!!

@slipton6493 Жыл бұрын

Wow! I loved both of these shows. I also appreciate your insight and thoughts regarding other artists that come to mind while you are looking at the work being shown. Always interesting for me to go look up the works of those artists that I’ve not heard of. Thanks James and Kate!

@surality Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Kate.

@jgalcantara850 Жыл бұрын

Indeed one of the best living master artist of our time. Intriguing work and painted with love of materials and passion. Fantastic thank you so much. His work will also be shown April 21 at Vito Schnibel Gallery in Santa Monica Calif. Can’t wait to view his actual work. Thank James and thank you Kate.

@loriwakefield1 5 ай бұрын

thank you for another interesting show the last skull paintings where super cool

@ITcanB Жыл бұрын

Martin Kippenberger was born February 25 ,1953 and died March 7, 1997.

@tonsfocus Жыл бұрын

I've long had the notion that the two powerhouses of art were NYC and Germany, most especially what came blasting out of Germany in the 80s. To put it in very simplistic words, I think the Germans have always fallen on the side of total distrust of elegance or "high culture" and preferred brute, primal and yes, ugly, images, as somehow being more "true." Picasso was there too, but I think the Germans are very consistent in that regard. I cannot get enough, and feel a deep kinship with this viewpoint. Wonderful tours of both shows, James. Thanks so much, and thanks Kate.

@jameskalmroughcut Жыл бұрын

I received much of my firsthand art history visiting major museums while stationed in Germany (West Germany) in the early 1970s, so much of my perspective is from that viewpoint. Despite the horrors that befell the Germans, artistic ideas like Expressionism, the Neue Sachlichkeit, and Dada have always resonated with me. Here in America (particularly in New York and on the East Coast) after WWII, there was a serious attempt to negate anything German, and that's why the School of Paris was held up as the ultimate advanced direction to go. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the new generation of Germans had a lot to catch up with, and a challenge to prove themselves...(?)...JK

@tonsfocus Жыл бұрын

@@jameskalmroughcut Thanks for the reply, and I'm so relieved you weren't stationed in East Germany! (fyi - I grew up as an army brat, my Dad being stationed in S.E. Asia for a lot of my childhood). Very interesting about the negation of German culture post WWII - of course - makes a lot of sense, despite how we actually ingested their top scientists for NASA. I'm not sure, but I'd guess it was J. Bueys who was the main art ambassador for that German 80s generation. Thanks again James...

@cliffdariff74 Жыл бұрын

JK... could old you define the Neue Wilden movement? (or whatever that group or style was) thanks.

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

True of one vein in painting that goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, but it doesn't account for Gerhard Richter's black and white paintings, and much else besides. Early Polke is the opposite of this. There's no distrust of elegance in German music, the Bauhaus or the postwar designers, such as Dieter Rams, who worked for Braun and other firms. Nor anything brutal about a high culture which comprises more opera houses than in any other nation, nothing primal in Goethe, Rilke or Thomas Mann. While I also love these types of paintings, German higher culture is much broader, full of elegance and sophistication.

@tonsfocus 8 ай бұрын

@@robertalenrichter Counter-point well taken, thanks. Well said, and I agree with you. btw - YT just *deleted* James' other main channel - 18 yrs. of hard work and 750ish artists, all removed perfunctorily. Feel like I'm the only JK fan who has even noticed.

@TimTubeRide Жыл бұрын

thank you for doing this.

@bingbongtoysKY 8 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@singlespies Жыл бұрын

Thanks James! Great shows - I will try to catch both of them tomorrow. I'm not sure what I should think about Lupertz's recent classical paintings. On the one hand, I am immediately drawn to them because of their beauty. On the other hand, I wonder if they are some kind of ironic criticism of the Nazi's reverence of classicism. If that's the case, should I be deeply suspicious of the beauty? Or maybe he's just trying to have it both ways...

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

These Lüpertz works are for me a blend of Beckmann, Hofer, Kokoschka, that vein.

@LuchaCatDIY Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this

@artistsunyata8961 Жыл бұрын

James Kalm! Just a point on Lupertz and the Dithyrambs..... I would hazard a guess, it is via Nietzsche 1888 Poems....and if you go more deeply in the "Classics" the Dithyramb were more than chorus, but set the very atmosphere, somewhat like chanting in Temples in India, or Aboriginals in some communities before ceremony.....Brings on the Spirit''.....In the West we trivialize it, even though, in reality we don't.....but we rarely collectively experience it, but at a Metal concert or a orchestra playing Parsifal!( I doubt Nietzsche would be moved by either!)

@yorgosGreece Жыл бұрын

ΚΙΠΠΕΝΜΠΕΡΓΚΕΡ ! Ω !

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

The figures are reminiscent of German sculptures of the 20s through the 50s.

@boogieboxmusic4331 Жыл бұрын

Loved the kippenberger work…

@tonelo7207 Жыл бұрын

WOW.

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

Hm, these Lüpertz works are from 2018. I find them more interesting than usual, mostly in a smaller format and working very well together, whereby the frames are important. He's extracting the maximum from very spare means.

@dansisco3076 Жыл бұрын

At around 36 minutes in, I noticed what looked like, a man standing in a boat...... The river Styx and the boatman at the crossing Perhaps?

@jameskalmroughcut Жыл бұрын

Yes, There were a couple of things I didn't notice until I got back in the studio and edited the tape. In the Kippenberger piece in the first gallery "Ohne Title" there's an upside down figure and the letters BAZ in the upper left corner (obviously a reference to Georg Baselitz). In the large Lüpertz piece Susanne, I'm sensing an echo of Oskar Kokoschka en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Kokoschka a great Austrian painter...JK

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

I find that what one thinks of as paintings in a more "expressionist" vein tend to have one thing in common -- the prominent use of black as a way of featuring, defining form. Yes, greys and earth tones, but black at once establishes a structure which permits of a more loose handling of the rest, and a sense of the theatrical. Lüpertz even extends the black to include the frame, broken, of course, not neat and tidy.

@alexrose9487 Жыл бұрын

christ new york buskers are the worst, lock them all down...anyhoo...kippenberger is still incredible, thank you kate !

@semloclusa1630 Ай бұрын

Ah, the ol’ “inexplicable-juxtaposition-of-unrelated-images” genre of painting. Contemporary art is FULL OF IT…

@cliffdariff74 Жыл бұрын

M. Lupertz sculpture is much more interesting than his paintings. He seems tho to use a limited pallet, dark olive green with black and yellows/orange.

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

Those who would decry this work as kitsch are themselves guilty of much, much worse. Kitsch is vulgar and ugly. This is neither.

@jameskalmroughcut 8 ай бұрын

"Kitsch is vulgar and ugly." There are some very intelligent artists who think that kitsch might be one of the last realms of "resistance" in the battle between the the establishment, and the "avant-garde"...Just saying...JK

@robertalenrichter 8 ай бұрын

@@jameskalmroughcut The term itself describes a ubiquitous phenomenon very well, and it's needed because the world is filled with kitsch. The trouble is that it's been used and misused so much, oftentimes against itself, subverting its very meaning.