Presents two exhibitions at the Angel Orensanz Foundation from 2003:
WALTER URBACH & FEMININITY’S REDRESS
We recently discovered these two archival videos in our collection, as we move ahead to process our video holdings from analog to digital. This episode of our program presents the exhibited artworks and includes extensive interviews with curators and artists.
During the opening Professor Dieter Ronte, director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn gave an introduction to Urbach’s work and curator Dr. Elmar Zorn gave an interpretation of the significance of the work in the context of contemporary European art.
Walter Urbach’s exhibit opened on January 5, 2003. It was a presentation of the Angel Orensanz Foundation in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Bonn and sponsored by the Goethe Institute in New York.
Walter Urbach, an accomplished professional lithographer and graphic designer for almost 50 years, is a latecomer to the art scene. He has quickly caught up with his generation of artists and subsequently brought on a brilliant oeuvre.
The exhibition presented an installation titled “Papaver” consisting of eleven pictorial rolls, flying vertically 18 feet high and occupying the center of the main hall of the Foundation.
In his work the memory of colors transcends the original model, whether he paints a poppy or a volcano. His ambitous paintings, which encompass a huge area of his screens, are representa-
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