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Clemens Krauss restlessly shuttles across history; his vehicles are painting, video art, sculpture, and performance. Yet Krauss is not " just" an artist, he is also a psychoanalyst and physician. As such, he has first-hand experience of time as the defining factor of existence, daring him to play with it. The bosom of painting is where he feels safest after his hazardous excursions back into his youth and forward into death. Executed in thick paints, his work is physical, material, which is also to say, it exists in time: everything passes away, even the picture. Evanescent, more than anything, are encounters of the sort Krauss stages as part of his psychoanalytical practice; all that remains is the indelible impression they leave. To be indelible, to recall the past, while also " letting happen what has never happened," as he puts it, these are the ambitions he pursues in his art. Preserved between the covers of the present catalogue and reproduced in thousands of copies, his works now fan out in an instant to circulate for an indeterminate period of time among countless hands, whence they will effortlessly penetrate the barriers of our inner lives to bring us one step closer to tra

Painterly Staging Pop Culture Icons and Myths. The psychedelic paintings of the artist duo Abetz & Drescher (Maike Abetz, born 1970 in Düsseldorf and Oliver Drescher, born 1969 in Essen) play with the longings of a generation that reinvented itself through the mass cultural transformation of music and media in the 1960s. Thus, Katharina Sieverding's former master students bring primarily American icons from the 1960s era of rock 'n' roll and youth protest culture to the canvas. In their collaborative works, Abetz & Drescher repeatedly penetrate the genres of self-portrait and icon painting, mixing epochs from the Renaissance to pop the artists often pose for the depictions of luminaries such as Maria Callas, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, or Elvis Presley, combining their pop cultural homage with an interest in mass culture as a mix of past, present, and future. On the occasion of their first institutional solo exhibition Place Called Love at the Kunsthalle Rostock, the catalog of the same name provides an overview of twenty years of collaboration. Curator Tereza de Arruda wrote the accompanying text and conducted an interview with the artist duo.

Yang Shaobin (*1963) ist einer der prominentesten chinesischen Künstler seiner Generation. Spätestens seit er 1999 auf der Biennale von Venedig an der ›Aperto‹ mit einer Reihe von in roter Farbe gehaltenen Porträts teilnahm, wird er auch in Europa zur Spitzengruppe der asiatischen Maler der Gegenwart gezählt. Seine Malerei zeichnet sich durch eine Beobachtung seiner Zeitgenossen aus, die er in teilweise drastischer Überzeichnung festhält. Mit einer Auswahl seiner wichtigsten Gemälde 1996–2009.