art cologne
17 - 21 November 2021
Messeplatz 1
Cologne, Germany
We are pleased to participate again at the Art Cologne 2020. The fair will take place at Messeplatz 1 in Cologne between November 17 - 21, 2021. We will present works by Hildegard Joos and Rudolf Ray, rediscoveries that will be shown at Art Cologne for the first time, at our Booth B 28.
HILDEGARD JOOS (1909 - 2005) is one of the most important artists of geometric abstraction and constructivism in Austria. In 1962 she was the first female artist whose work was presented as part of a solo exhibition in the main room of the Vienna Secession - three further solo exhibitions took place there in 1964, 1967 and 1980. From 1959 Hildegard Joos had a studio in Paris where she caused a sensation with her monistic paintings and was represented at numerous exhibitions such as the “Salon des Indépendants” and the “Salon des Réalités Nouvelles”. Her work marks an interface in the tradition of geometrical-constructive abstraction and the contemporary painting discourse.
The focus of the presentation at this year's Art Cologne are her works of the late 1960 and 1970s, including the “Verschiebungen”, “Balancen”, “Dérogationen” and “Aequivoke Evolutionen”.
RUDOLF RAY (1891 - 1984), born in Latvia, came to Vienna at the age of 9 where he studied medicine and law and later also painting. On the occasion of his first exhibition in Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka wrote in 1934: “Rudolf Ray is an expressionist” and announced his art as a revolution. At that time, Ray was still creating his psychological portraits. For this work and for all of his other works, the external appearance was merely a shell that had to be overcome in order to get to the real essence of what was depicted. Ray lived in several countries, including France, where he met and worked with Othon Friesz. In 1942 he immigrated to New York together with Marcel Duchamp, who arranged for him a Rudolf Ray exhibition in Peggy Guggenheim's gallery Art of this Century. In 1948, the art critic Clement Greenberg named Ray in the same breath as Mark Tobey and Jackson Pollock when he describes the departure of contemporary artists from traditional panel painting in The Crisis of the Easel Picture. The cosmopolitan Rudolf Ray spent several years of his life in India (1956-1959) and Mexico (1960-1974) with several solo exhibitions. He also stayed in the United States and later moved to Great Britain, where he died in 1984.
At its booth, the gallery shows a cross-section of his oeuvre with a focus on the creative periods in India and Mexico.
Installation views
Works
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Hildegard Joos
Balance, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
113,5 x 143,5 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Verschiebung Composition 7, around 1971
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 97 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Aequivoke Evolutionen 15, 1977
Acrylic on canvas
162 x 130 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Balance C18, 1974
Acrylic on canvas
114 x 146 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Geometrische Komposition rot/blau, around 2003
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 50 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Verschiebung, around 1970
Gouache, pencil on paper
71,5 x 62,5 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen No 279, 1987
Acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Komposition in Weiß, around 1965
Gouache on paper
42,5 x 58,36 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen Nr. 102, 1984
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen Nr. 83, 1984
Acrylic on canvas
170,5 x 170,4 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Elancement/Evolutions ambigues No 48, 1977
Acrylic on canvas
162 x 130 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Balance Komposition C 3, 1971
Acrylic on canvas
147 x 113,5 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Balance B 31, 1987
Screen Printing 38/100 on paper
68 x 52 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Dérogation, around 1969
Matt varnish, pencil on paper
65 x 65 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Dérogation, around 1969
Matt varnish, pencil on paper
65 x 65 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Dérogation, around 1969
Matt varnish, pencil on paper
65 x 65 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Balance, 1973
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm -
Rudolf Ray
Joyce, 1950
Oil on cardboard
112 x 85,5 cm -
Rudolf Ray
Night of Wedding - Mexico, 1968
Oil on cardboard
92 x 122 cm -
Rudolf Ray
o.T., ca. 1979
Oil on canvas/wood
122 x 214 cm -
Rudolf Ray
Mädchenportrait, 1938
Pastell on paper
46 x 38,5 cm -
Rudolf Ray
o.T., 1973
Oil on Plywood board
50 x 122 cm -
Rudolf Ray
o.T., 1976
Oil on wood
78,8 x 107,3 cm -
Rudolf Ray
Journey from Within, 1959
Oil on wood
33 x 44,5 cm -
Rudolf Ray
Trader, 1959
Oil on wood
30,5 x 44,5 cm -
Rudolf Ray
o.T., around 1933
Pastell on paper
50,7 x 40,7 cm -
Rudolf Ray
42nd Street, NY, 1946
Oil on canvas
92 x 122 cm -
Rudolf Ray
o.T., 1961
Oil on wood
60 x 122 cm -
Rudolf Ray
Raven, 1967
Oil on wood
28,3 x 23,3 cm