G.R.I.T. Gestural Reflective Inquiring Tales, Kunstpunkt BERLIN, 8-31 August 2024: a painting exhibition bridging Europe

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T1 - G.R.I.T. Gestural Reflective Inquiring Tales, Kunstpunkt BERLIN, 8-31 August 2024

T2 - a painting exhibition bridging Europe

A2 - Roberts, Alex

A2 - Taylor, Anita

A2 - Swayne, Geraldine

A2 - Angove, _

A2 - Zimmer, Michaela

A2 - Ward, Henry

A2 - Zimbelmann, Waldemar

A2 - Hil, Alena

A2 - Eden, Jenny

A2 - Dal Bello, Jacopo

A2 - Krause, Erika

A2 - Gorrill, Helen

A2 - Gerken, Ina

A2 - Otto, Eglė

A2 - Fu, Rao

PY - 2024/8/8

Y1 - 2024/8/8

N2 - Gestural Reflective & Inquiring Tales (G.R.I.T.) - is a nucleus for a collective of fourteen painters, centred around an exhibition which explores how gesture and its physicality engage both the maker and the viewer. With international contributors, the painting enquiry bridged Europe - the 2024 exhibition was first shown at KUNSTPUNKT Berlin, Germany (9-31 August) which was press featured in Tip Berlin. The G.R.I.T. exhibition illuminates the ways painting relates to its viewers by focusing on the idea of bodily engagement. The titular acronym hints at the complexity of this relation: gestural, reflective, inquiring tales.  The artworks in the show aim to invite contemplation, but at the same time, the viewers’ experience mirrors the process of making a painting. The works provoke thought and exert a pull upon viewers. They demand commitment. However, G.R.I.T. does not attempt to oversimplify the mystery of the relationships that painting engages in. In his 2019 essay collection, The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, the critic and poet Barry Schwabsky speaks about this engagement. “(We) should not overlook,” writes Schwabsky, “what gives painting its importance to art, is that it derives from the essence (body) of both the maker and the viewer.” Accordingly, G.R.I.T. centres the presence of the artists’ process, as found in the raw and immediate marks which physically and psychologically resonate with the viewers. Artists: Angove, Jacopo Dal Bello, Jenny Eden, Rao Fu, Ina Gerken, Alena Hil, Erika Krause, Eglė Otto, Alex Roberts, Geraldine Swayne, Anita Taylor, Henry Ward, Waldemar Zimbelmann, Michaela Zimmer.Curator: Alex Roberts.    G.R.I.T Berlin programming:8.08 Opening, Performative Intervention from Deli Sánchez & Michaela Zimmer9.08 Tour with Artists10.08 Painting Symposium, Guest Speakers: Jurriaan Benschop, Dr. Helen Gerrill, Marguerite Nolan, Benjamin Rubloff17.08 Tour with the Curator31.08 Closing, Guest Artist Petra Lottje “Zeichnung" Video, Performance & Workshop

AB - Gestural Reflective & Inquiring Tales (G.R.I.T.) - is a nucleus for a collective of fourteen painters, centred around an exhibition which explores how gesture and its physicality engage both the maker and the viewer. With international contributors, the painting enquiry bridged Europe - the 2024 exhibition was first shown at KUNSTPUNKT Berlin, Germany (9-31 August) which was press featured in Tip Berlin. The G.R.I.T. exhibition illuminates the ways painting relates to its viewers by focusing on the idea of bodily engagement. The titular acronym hints at the complexity of this relation: gestural, reflective, inquiring tales.  The artworks in the show aim to invite contemplation, but at the same time, the viewers’ experience mirrors the process of making a painting. The works provoke thought and exert a pull upon viewers. They demand commitment. However, G.R.I.T. does not attempt to oversimplify the mystery of the relationships that painting engages in. In his 2019 essay collection, The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, the critic and poet Barry Schwabsky speaks about this engagement. “(We) should not overlook,” writes Schwabsky, “what gives painting its importance to art, is that it derives from the essence (body) of both the maker and the viewer.” Accordingly, G.R.I.T. centres the presence of the artists’ process, as found in the raw and immediate marks which physically and psychologically resonate with the viewers. Artists: Angove, Jacopo Dal Bello, Jenny Eden, Rao Fu, Ina Gerken, Alena Hil, Erika Krause, Eglė Otto, Alex Roberts, Geraldine Swayne, Anita Taylor, Henry Ward, Waldemar Zimbelmann, Michaela Zimmer.Curator: Alex Roberts.    G.R.I.T Berlin programming:8.08 Opening, Performative Intervention from Deli Sánchez & Michaela Zimmer9.08 Tour with Artists10.08 Painting Symposium, Guest Speakers: Jurriaan Benschop, Dr. Helen Gerrill, Marguerite Nolan, Benjamin Rubloff17.08 Tour with the Curator31.08 Closing, Guest Artist Petra Lottje “Zeichnung" Video, Performance & Workshop

KW - painting

KW - contemporary painting

KW - berlin

KW - international exchange

KW - european painters

KW - art exhibition

KW - painting and drawing

KW - GRIT

KW - gesture

KW - identity

KW - embodiment

KW - performativity

KW - curation

KW - contemporary german painting

KW - international art exchange

KW - group exhibition

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M3 - Exhibition

PB - Kunstpunkt BERLIN

CY - Berlin

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