Isa Genzken is one of the most important living artists. Also 70 years of age, you cannot help but be amazed with their high-pitched collages and sculptures. The title of “wife of Gerhard Richter,” has it filed a long time ago.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Isa Genzken…
…was born in 1948 in Bad Oldesloe. In the middle of Hamburg, the doctor’s daughter studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste and later at the Düsseldorf art Academy, here, among others, also your future husband: Gerhard Richter. Prior to her studies, Genzken had worked as a photo model.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Flowers of steel
Even when Genzken had to be quite dedicated to the success of that painting, photography and Film, she was known as a sculptor. In such a known that you can afford to let an eight-Meter-Rose made of painted steel in addition to the new New York World Trade Center. The sculpture “Rose III” was handed over in September 2018.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Orchids in Central Park
Isa Genzken’s rose Installation, was not the first of its sculptures has made it to New York: In Central Park “Two orchids for 2016”. The eight and ten-Meter-high steel flowers were placed at the Southeast entrance of the Park in Manhattan. Before they were seen at the Biennale in Venice.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
A steel rose is a rose is a…
Also in Germany, Genzken makes your oversized metal flowers are in bloom. About this eight-Meter-high Rose with stainless steel in the North of Leipzig – the colorful sculpture welcomes the visitor to the fair, the city.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Material Girl
But steel is Far from the only one of Genzken’s Material used. As aluminum, wood, and, not least, concrete applications. Or reclassified everyday objects: A doll, surrounded by cheap plastic Kitsch. To do this, overturned baby strollers and umbrellas. The post-modern passion play was in 2007 in the forecourt of the liebfrauen überwasserkirche in Münster.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
“Make yourself pretty!”
This is the title of the exhibition Isa Genzken’s stand 2016 in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau. True to this Motto, the artist continued to “Nefertiti heads” of different sunglasses on the (already) pretty nose.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Passion for photography
For the Installation of “slot machine” was Genzken, 2009 various photographs, and shaped to a Parallelepiped. Was presented at the exhibition “open, sesame!” at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Emperor ring for Isa Genzken
In October 2017, the town of Goslar, Isa was Genzken, with her prestigious art prize. In their statement, the Jury highlighted the fact that Genzken the international discourse of the sculpture with the head. And this, “never without a sense of humour”.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
The urban space
2014 was to be seen in the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the exhibition “I’m Isa Genzken, The Only Female Fool”. In the centre of the Show, their confrontation with the urban architecture of the past four decades.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Isa Genzken…
…was born in 1948 in Bad Oldesloe. In the middle of Hamburg, the doctor’s daughter studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste and later at the Düsseldorf art Academy, here, among others, also your future husband: Gerhard Richter. Prior to her studies, Genzken had worked as a photo model.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Flowers of steel
Even when Genzken had to be quite dedicated to the success of that painting, photography and Film, she was known as a sculptor. In such a known that you can afford to let an eight-Meter-Rose made of painted steel in addition to the new New York World Trade Center. The sculpture “Rose III” was handed over in September 2018.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Orchids in Central Park
Isa Genzken’s rose Installation, was not the first of its sculptures has made it to New York: In Central Park “Two orchids for 2016”. The eight and ten-Meter-high steel flowers were placed at the Southeast entrance of the Park in Manhattan. Before they were seen at the Biennale in Venice.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
A steel rose is a rose is a…
Also in Germany, Genzken makes your oversized metal flowers are in bloom. About this eight-Meter-high Rose with stainless steel in the North of Leipzig – the colorful sculpture welcomes the visitor to the fair, the city.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Material Girl
But steel is Far from the only one of Genzken’s Material used. As aluminum, wood, and, not least, concrete applications. Or reclassified everyday objects: A doll, surrounded by cheap plastic Kitsch. To do this, overturned baby strollers and umbrellas. The post-modern passion play was in 2007 in the forecourt of the liebfrauen überwasserkirche in Münster.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
“Make yourself pretty!”
This is the title of the exhibition Isa Genzken’s stand 2016 in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau. True to this Motto, the artist continued to “Nefertiti heads” of different sunglasses on the (already) pretty nose.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Passion for photography
For the Installation of “slot machine” was Genzken, 2009 various photographs, and shaped to a Parallelepiped. Was presented at the exhibition “open, sesame!” at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
Emperor ring for Isa Genzken
In October 2017, the town of Goslar, Isa was Genzken, with her prestigious art prize. In their statement, the Jury highlighted the fact that Genzken the international discourse of the sculpture with the head. And this, “never without a sense of humour”.
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The lady of the Rose: a sculptor Isa 70 is Genzken
The urban space
2014 was to be seen in the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the exhibition “I’m Isa Genzken, The Only Female Fool”. In the centre of the Show, their confrontation with the urban architecture of the past four decades.
Photo collages with packing tape held together, colorful plastic parts on a steal, rolling chairs with red fabric and translucent foil plated or clad mannequins: For your concept art uses Isa Genzken often on found objects from everyday life that puts them in a different context. Only colorful Tapes, plastic and mirror foil are not part of your preferred materials, but wood, aluminum and concrete.
Impressed by modern architecture
It building, materials reminiscent of urban architecture. This is not a coincidence. The skyscrapers of Manhattan to fascinate Isa Genzken’s work since the age of 16. Years of age. Since it was the first Time in New York: “on arrival I felt This is my town. I still love her the most of all the cities I know. In this architecture, you can’t copy,” said the interview-shy artist who lives in Berlin, in 2016, the newspaper “The daily mirror”. One of her favorite buildings, the old World Trade Center was.
A painted steel rose for Ground Zero
In 2001, she witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center, close-up, even if initially in a television broadcast: “For me, it seemed like a Spielberg movie. I went in the evening to the World Trade Center and was horrified. Since the smoke was still in the sky, the people have accumulated the rests, chairs, furniture, that was hell.”
A Rose for the new World Trade Center
To the memory she had in this September, an eight-Meter wide steel rose beside the new World Trade Center. Like a red thread, these oversized flowers through her work of the last 25 years. A very different, poetic side of the artist. In 1993, she placed an eight-Meter-high Rose in front of the mansion of the art collector Frieder Burda. Known as great red Rose made of stainless steel on the Leipziger Messe grounds. And also Central Park in New York is adorned by two over-sized orchids.
Was born, Isa Genzken born 1948 in Bad Oldesloe close to Hamburg. She studied in the 1970s at the University for screen end of arts in Hamburg and at the art Academy in Düsseldorf. There, her teacher, Gerhard Richter was married, you later, for over ten years. However, while she was fond of skyscrapers, he prefer to collect mushrooms. Not only in the city of New York, the spirits of the departed.
The artistic accolade for Isa Genzken: retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
Psychiatry and art
As the relationship with Gerhard Richter was gone in the fractures, decayed Isa Genzken, the alcohol and lost her money in the Nightclubs of Manhattan and Berlin. In the last few years, she spent many months in psychiatry. The diagnosis of A bipolar disorder, the emotional UPS and Downs. In New York, however, so she says she’ll stay with these disorders spared. In 2013, the Museum of Modern Art devoted a comprehensive retrospective.
Three times Isa Genzken at the international art exhibition “documenta” in Kassel. At documenta 11, they showed “New buildings for Berlin”. The abstract high-rise building models of colored industrial glass, which stood on slender Steal. In “Fuck the Bauhaus, New Buildings for New York” she created city models from plastic, wood, shells, toys, and mirror foil and in this way, with the architecture and the utopias of Modernity.
Rolling suitcase at the German pavilion of the Biennale
The other view
Her big break Genzken at the Venice Biennale, where she designed in 2007, the German pavilion. Here, too, she worked with the mannequins that hung as the astronauts dressed of the ceiling, with toys, Venetian-clad skulls on pedestals and rolling suitcases on the floor. The associations range from the Failure of a society of progress to thoughts of wars and climate disasters. The latter put the title of your Show “Oil” (dt. Oil) near.
“Her Work is never just what you see. She has a very special, different view on things that is not thought of, but a real sensation,” said Genskens longtime gallerist Daniel Buchholz, the German press Agency. To your 70. Birthday on the 27. In November, he will host an exhibition for you and hopes that Isa Genzken will come to the opening, if it allows your health.
Isa Genzken gets the Kaiserring in Goslar
In 2014, the Kunsthalle in Vienna, showed an exhibition with works in which Isa Genzken with the urban architecture. The Show was called “I’m Isa Genzken, The Only Female Fool”. A title like a life motto. Your entire Oeuvre includes sculptures and paintings, installations, films, photographs, and artists ‘ books.
2017 Isa Genzken, the Emperor ring was awarded, one of the most prestigious prizes for modern art. The reason given was that their installations and sculptures made on the contradictions and brutality in the society. They also have a pioneering role in the “international discourse of sculpture”, the “lead never without a sense of humour”.