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Ausstellungsansicht „Black is beautiful“, Galerie Renate Bender 2021, Photo: Gary Thurner<\/div>
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Black is Beautiful<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Allsop, Till Augustin, Claudioadami, Helmut Dirnaichner, Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi, Raphael Grotthuss, Bim Koehler, Siegfried Kreitner, Maria Lali\u0107, Horst Linn, Martin Lehmer, Matt McClune, Pfeifer & Kreutzer, Nadine Poulain, Robert Sagerman, Hans Schork, Regine Schumann, Lars Strandh, Heiner Thiel, Jeremy Thomas, Peter Weber, Susan York and Pierre Soulages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition from September 10th to October 30th, 2021 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening: Friday, September 10th, 6 to 9 pm
Matinee: Saturday, September 11th, 12 to 4 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special opening hours during Open Art Munich:
Friday, September 24th, 6 to 9 pm
Saturday \/ Sunday September 25th \/ 26th, 11 am to 6 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My exhibition themes can be traced back to what I experienced during the early years of my gallery, when I began to explore art in the US, especially in New York. It was a solo exhibition of the American painter Ad Reinhardt at MoMA in the summer of 1991 that captivated me and was to play a crucial role in my gallery work in the years thereafter. The exhibition showed, for the first time, a retrospective selection of his work, which, historically, can be closely connected with American Expressionism and Minimalism. Ad Reinhardt, born in 1913, began working in the 1930s with geometric abstraction and then in the 1940s turned to painting, what he termed, \u201callover patterns.\u201d In the 1950s he sought to free himself from everything that could express \u201ccontent, ideas or self-representation.\u201d Pure painting \u2013 monochrome fields on canvas in red, blue and, ultimately, black \u2013 had to be enough. Hardly visible, especially in the black works, were overlapping cross-shaped elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What impressed me at the Reinhardt exhibition was, at the entrance, visitors were encouraged to let their eyes adjust to the darkened route leading to the show rooms, a necessary step to be able to experience the \u201ccolorfulness\u201d of the black paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I left the exhibition, it became clear to me that the \u201cart of seeing\u201d monochrome paintings would be one of the primary curatorial focuses of my future exhibitions. This was the beginning of a gradual process that has shaped my gallery\u2019s program and which, today, I would characterize as specializing in reduced, monochrome and minimalist forms of painting, sculpture and photography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following two of my gallery shows on the theme \u201cBlack and White\u201d in 2013 and 2015, my wish from the summer of 1991 has come to fruition with the exhibition \u201cBlack is Beautiful.\u201d Exactly 30 years later, my gallery in Munich is showing, as part of Kulturherbst 2021, 22 artists from my own program as well as a work by Pierre Soulages \u2013 on loan from my esteemed colleague Edith Rieder \u2013 the twentieth-century grand master of \u201cblack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this exhibition, I would like to demonstrate the variety of this oldest of all colors, for, as Soulages said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab Avec le noir c\u2018est la vie de la lumi\u00e8re qui apparait. \u00bb 1)
\u00ab\u00a0With black, light comes alive. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renate Bender, September 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Pierre Soulages, in: Entretien publique. Collection Inconotexte, Marseille 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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