R;68

Carolin Eidner, Finn Froböse, Alex Wissel

Info: Ruttkowski;68 presents The Quality of Painting (Die Qualität der Malerei), an exhibition curated by Georg Imdahl bringing together works by Alex Wissel, Carolin Eidner, and Finn Froböse. The presentation looks at different approaches to painting, addressing questions of quality, perception, context, and value. Must painting, to draw attention to itself, still proclaim its own death, its eternal end? Must it reach transitively beyond the picture frame into the room, then stand beside itself (David Joselit) and belong to a particular network in order to convince? Does it need, in the context of western art (Westkunst) and beyond, a fitting image, a catchy label? Can its quality (or qualities) be grasped only by someone who understands it as part of a formation (Isabelle Graw)? Is its economic exploitability an integral component of its DNA? What makes a good painting? Does that judgment belong solely to the right viewer, the appropriate interpreter, the knowledgeable connoisseur? (…)