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Email PageSelected paintings 1988-1994
October 20, 2007- November 24, 2007
Reception: October 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Michael Buthe
Alexander and Bonin
132 10th Ave Michael Buthe Landschaft mit Schnecken (1990) photo: Jason Mandella, courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York |
Buthe worked in various media and was one of the first artists to present room-size installations as works of art. These installations could be seen as settings for shamanistic ceremonies. In painting and assemblage, Buthe consistently experimented with color and a wide variety of materials, including fabric, foil, and organic matter. His art was greatly influenced by his personal spirituality and by his travels to Africa and the Middle East.
A contemporary of Sigmar Polke, Buthe lived the majority of his adult life in Cologne and was a professor at Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf from 1983 to 1994. Beginning in 1970, he spent part of each year in Morocco becoming “the traveler between the worlds” of Cologne and Marrakesh and had solo exhibitions in Kathmandu and Kabul. During the 1980s, Buthe lived in an industrial building with the actor Udo Kier and the video artist Marcel Odenbach. Kier participated in several of Buthe’s performances, the motifs of which frequently inspired Buthe’s art.
Buthe’s first inclusion in a group exhibition was in Harald Szeemann’s legendary 1969 exhibition “When Attitudes Become Form: Live In Your Head,” which presented for the first time in Europe artists such as Beuys, Serra, and Weiner. Between 1972 and 1992, Buthe exhibited in four Documenta exhibitions. In 1999, both the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf presented posthumous solo exhibitions of Buthe’s work. Despite this prominent exhibition history in Europe, his work has rarely been seen in the United States. The exhibition of his work at Alexander and Bonin will be the first solo show in New York since 1982.
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