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Painting from Uncertain Places

Untill September 16, 2012

Under the title Painting from Uncertain Places the show includes the work of Tilo Baumga?rtel (Leipzig), Susanne Ku?hn (Freiburg), Antje Majewski (Berlin), and Hannes Michanek (Frankfurt), four artists who are well aware of the fetish-like character that figurative painting is presumed to have— and of its ambivalent relationship to the art market, the reproach of it being decorative, and how readily it can be appropriated for purposes of representation.

The exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein demonstrates how open and layered figurative painting can be, when artists are conscious of the illusionary potential of the medium. It reveals the inherent capacity of these works to create worlds of their own, thus raising questions as to the role and place of the individual in the world.

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt