Discover Germany | Special Theme | Exhibition Highlights Switzerland 2017
Raúl Illarramendi in St. Moritz Gallerists like the German Karsten Greve are an important link between artist and audience. By exhibiting a high diversity of artistic genres, Greve keeps his collectors at pace with the times.
Top: EA n°210, triptych, colour pencil and gouache on canvas, 200 x 480 cm / 78 3/4 x 189 in. Photo: © Studio Raúl Illarramendi Bottom: Galerie Karsten Greve St. Moritz / sculpture by Joel Shapiro. Photo: © Galerie Karsten Greve
Brummett are currently on show, while Greve’s Parisian gallery is hosting an exhibition of works by French-born artist Pierrette Bloch.
TEXT: SILKE HENKELE
www.galerie-karsten-greve.com Karsten Greve has been active in arts since 1969. He opened his own gallery in 1973 in Cologne, Germany with a solo exhibition of works by Yves Klein, one of the founding members of the French Nouveau Réalisme. Ongoing and intimate contact with artists like Cy Twombly or Louise Bourgeois finally set the scope of Greve’s artistic interests that he describes as follows: “Basically, the programme of my galleries is highly diverse. The artistic post-war genres I am interested in range from painting, drawing and graphic arts to sculpture, installation, and photography.”
It is here, in beautiful St. Moritz, that Greve has staged his latest coup, namely an exhibition of works by the Venezuelan Raúl Illarramendi, who, through his unusual technique, challenges visitors to reassess the established.“Raúl Illarramendi’s works of art are characterised by the exploration and mediation of the single line between drawing and painting. They annihilate the singularity of the graphic mark, while emphasising the abstract aspect of painting, thus allowing the works to be understood as drawn paintings,” says Greve, explaining Illarramendi’s artistic approach.
In reaction to an ever-growing international clientele and an increasing demand for post-war art, Greve opened additional galleries in Paris in 1989, as well as 1999 in St. Moritz respectively.
If Illaramandi’s works have made you curious, do not miss the opportunity to see them as well as works by other exceptional artists. In Greve’s gallery in Cologne works by American photographer Thomas Issue 48 | March 2017 | 81