Blinky vs Twombly

Blinky Palermo at Museum Brandhorst, München 2011:

Cy Twombly at Museum Brandhorst, München 2011:

Tooth's forest + Warhol's camouflage

Stanzie Tooth's solo exhibition Into The Forest at General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto 2013:

Andy Warhol's portrait of Joseph Beuys at Museum Brandhorst, München 2011:

Sauerbruch Hutton colours

Sauerbruch Hutton's 2008 Museum Brandhorst, München:

Sauerbruch Hutton's 2005 Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency), Dessau:

Sauerbruch Hutton's 1999 GSW Hauptverwaltung, Berlin:

Camouflage

Since I'm going to New York tomorrow, I'm posting some works from a couple of New York artists today, with a common theme - camouflage.

Andy Warhol at Museum Brandhorst, München 2011:

Andy Warhol at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2011:

Jim Hodges at Camden Art Centre, London 2010:

And, though not from New York, my humble drawing, 2010:

Twombly's roses

Cy Twombly at Museum Brandhorst, Muenchen 2011:

Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Blütenblättern

(Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire to be no one's sleep under so many petals)

- after Rainer Maria Rilke 1925

Im Gewitter der Rosen

Wohin wir uns wenden im Gewitter der Rosen,

ist die Nacht von Dornen erhellt, und der Donner

folgt uns jetzt auf dem Fuß

(In the storm of roses

Wherever we turn in the storm of roses

The night is lit up by thorns, and thunder

Rumbling at our heels)

- after Ingeborg Bachmann 1953

More steelwork

More steel sculptures of car parts today ...

John Chamberlain is currently showing his renowned steel sculptures of old car parts concurrently at Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst.  I found myself merrily lost for hours in a maze of oversized steelwork.

Chamberlain at Pinakothek der Moderne, München:

Chamberlain at Museum Brandhorst, München:

Chamberlain's steelwork is perfectly echoed by Sigmar Polke and Willem de Kooning's expressionist paintings.

Polke at Pinakothek der Moderne, München:

De Kooning at Pinakothek der Moderne, München: