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Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany
Opens: 18/11/2011 Closes: 30/04/2012
The Saatchi Gallery, London
‘Gesamtkunstwerk' translates as an all-encompassing genre marrying high and low culture, the everyday and the everything. This diverse array of work from 24 of Germany's leading practitioners is another go from Saatchi, then, at a blockbuster show, from a country at the forefront of European contemporary art.
For more information visit:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/germany_art/
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http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/visitor/visitor.htm
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this is london“Familiar to the experienced, tedious; to the inexperienced...” Most of it is fodder for curators skilled in the business of applying meaning to the meaningless. There are, however, exceptions. Markus Selg, born in 1974 and largely self-taught, working alone, stopped me in my tracks...
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The Independent“The work is, or at least it feels, sincere...” Strangely, this sincerity doesn't feel old-fashioned. It feels rather good. There is work here that is as strong as any I've seen in the past couple of years, even if not all of it is to my taste...
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Guardian“Junk predominates as both material and metaphor...” The post-po-mo generation, wandering about in an age of vacuity and defeat, making work (this is the spin) that defies the ghosts of 20th-century German culture...
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