STRAND: Isa Genzken, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte
This booklet is about a group show that took place at the Sies + Höke gallery in Düsseldorf in 2020, bringing together works by Isa Genzken, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Thomas Schütte.
In the exhibition titled STRAND, the artists examine the relationships between men and women, and question the duration, serenity and consonance of these relationships.
The title STRAND (“beach”) can be taken as a pause, or a frequency finally found. It’s interesting to find Gerhard Richter and Isa Genzken – who were married from 1982 to 1993 – at the heart of this questioning.
The layout is minimal, with the large title in the center and the list of artists in a smaller size below. On a white background, the coloured letters stand out and mark this dissonance and slight lack of consonance with corridors that seems random and arbitrarily distributed.
STRAND: Isa Genzken, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte is a group exhibition that took place at Sies + Höke in 2020, accompanied by a publication of the same title.
Including seven small-format works by Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Isa Genzken and Sigmar Polke, the exhibition STRAND (beach) examines the relationship between men and women from different perspectives and raises the question whether serenity and consonance are only ever possible for short moments. The title may be understood as a break from gender conflict, as a reference to a place of longing with instinctive naturalness and lightness in relationships, or for a transmission frequency finally found.
The catalogue is comprised of images, installation views and work details of the seven works included in the exhibition, as well as the essay STRAND or The beauty of instinctive nature by Susanne Küper.
