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Jeanne Mammen, Photogenic Monarchs,
"Three current women painters in dialogue with an icon of Berlin art history: The exhibition “To Paint Is To Love Again” in the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle juxtaposes paintings by Antje Majewski, Katrin Plavčak, and Giovanna Sarti with the late work of Jeanne Mammen. The show is part of the “Painting Forever!” project, for which four important Berlin institutions are collaborating for the first time The exhibition projects in the Berlinische Galerie, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Nationalgalerie, and the KunstHalle are showing what the Berlin painting scene is occupied with today.
Jeanne Mammen’s “Photogenic Monarchs” look like two archaic idols. She constructed the two figures in the 1968 painting out of color surfaces and shiny silver candy wrappers. It is a rather trivial material to use to immortalize one of the most popular and controversial glamour couples of the late 1960s, the Shah of Persia and his wife Farah Diba."
Painting Forever! To Paint Is to Love Again
Jeanne Mammen – Antje Majewski, Katrin Plavčak, Giovanna Sarti
Deutsche Bank KunstHalle
September 18 – November 10, 2013
