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From Leipzig |
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From Leipzig Works from the Ovitz Family Collection (Jan. 30 to May 1, 2005) Admission to this exhibition and the Museum is free to all. The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) presents seven new large-scale paintings by a group of young painters who studied at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts in Germany. This new Project 244 exhibition, From Leipzig, will be on view Jan. 30 to May 1, 2005. The evolution of the New Leipzig school is surely the first art world phenomenon of the 21st century. This movement of a loosely affiliated group of eleven or so young, mostly representational German painters is unified not only by the artists’ Germanic identity, but also by the fact that each studied at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. The seven artists in this exhibition have made a profound impression on the contemporary art world. Their highly idiosyncratic and gripping landscapes, urban views, and interiors have a generally surreal character. However varied the innovations of formal structure or the narrative intent of the artworks, the Leipzig painters are unified in their shared concern with the once outmoded idea of the act of painting as an end in itself. All of the works in this exhibition are drawn from the Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles, Calif., which represents one of the most significant group of Leipzig painters in the United States. Promotional support of Project 244 is provided by angle magazine. The Cleveland Museum of Art receives operating support from the Ohio Arts Council. About the Exhibition Programs About Project 244 |
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