Alexander Ruthner - Cour: Sommer

Elisabeth Von Samsonow

ISBN 10: 3969120543 / ISBN 13: 9783969120545

Published by Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and Co. KG, DE, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alexander Ruthner - Cour: Sommer
• Publisher: Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and Co. KG, DE
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3969120543
• ISBN 13: 9783969120545
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Contemplating Nature in a Reduced-Mobility Environment. “The events of the year 2021, which was defined by lockdowns, the pandemic, and restrictions, has brought out the resonance in my pictures of Gustave Courbet’s realism,” Alexander Ruthner (b. Vienna, 1982; lives and works in Vienna) says about his most recent works: oil paintings featuring lush green vegetation and veritable down comforters painted all-over in saturated color gradients. The works will make their public début as the publication is released in the summer of 2021, hence the word “Summer” in the title. The other word, “Cour,” is a nod to the first syllable of the French painter’s name as well as French for “court,” a term the artist creatively reinterprets as a synonym for the solitary “castle of the mind” to which we have retreated under pandemic conditions. Ruthner, who studied with Peter Kogler, Daniel Richter, and Albert Oehlen, revisits the boscage and pasture painting of past eras in new works that propose a distinctive personal interpretation of that tradition’s charm. Alexander Ruthner’s work has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the National Museum of Montenegro, a.o.

About the Author

Gallerist artist and philosopher partner at Haverkampf Gallery Berlin