Friedrich Kunath
Subtitle: where is the madness that you promised me
Contributors: Tim Van Laere Gallery
Publisher: Tim van Laere Gallery
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Antwerp
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789082714548
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Where is the madness that you promised me
Description: Friedrich Kunath's work is permeated with ambiguity. His personal journey from East to West Berlin, towards his new-found home in Los Angeles presented Kunath with a wide variety of source material ranging from the canon of art history and German philosophy to the idiom of kitsch and the make-believe world of Hollywood and LA. Many of which are impacted by two poles - the culture of wisdom and popular culture - to the point of obsession and even, at times, systematization. Dealing with the universal themes of human existence, such as love, loss, optimism, vulnerability and melancholy, he serves a variety of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, drawing, video and photography, to expansive installations, all provided with a tragicomic pathos and dreams of possibilities. In almost every work, the realization is tangible that the world is a spectacle of unfulfilled dreams, in which the rawness of life is fled through the parallel universe of popular culture. Exhibition: Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (17.05.-23.06.2018).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, May 17 - June 23, 2018.

Interview in English and Dutch.