Double Feature Art Show

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Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt & Vincent Trasov in Berlin

The Berlin gallery ChertLüdde has organized an exhibition with works by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (1932–2024) and Vincent Trasov (*1947).

 In the end something begins with us is an exhibition that explores the early paintings of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. Spanning three decades of her work, the show examines her artistic development from the 1960s to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), after which she ceased producing art.

Mail Art as an Hommage

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeld’s tile mosaic on the side external staircase of the museum Das Minsk in Potsdam. photo: ©Artessa / CC 4.0

To commemorate the first anniversary of the artist’s death on February 26, 2024, the exhibition will feature Divided Planet (1970/2024), a public artwork displayed in the light box above the gallery entrance.

Additionally, responses to the gallery’s mail art call, inspired by the original typewritten artwork, will be showcased through a special presentation in the gallery’s bookstore.

Aleatoric Art

Berliner Bilder
Vincent Trasov’s book Berliner Bilder is available at Chert Lübbe.

Controlling Chaos, the second exhibition, presents historic works of Canadian artist Vincent Trasov . Two series dominate the show:

The first is his process paintings; for these, he set snow-covered canvases ablaze, creating dynamic interactions between construction and destruction. As vibrant banners created through a mix of ritual and play, they transform raw elements into bold geometric forms.

Alongside these are his heat-treated text works on paper, displaying the Vincent Trasov’s fascination with ephemerality. Words like BOY, JUNGE and GARÇON, each with its own linguistic connotations, reverberate across chemically processed scrap paper in the series Boys’ Choir (1984).

The Exhibition

ChertLüdde
Hauptstrasse 18
10827 Berlin
11 January – 22 February 2025
Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 18:00

Published by Gerald Jatzek

Gerald is a poet, musician, and mail artist who writes in German and English . He has published books for children and adults. He has played in quite some countries, including Australia, Germany, Italy, Greece, and Hong Kong. 2001 he received the Austrian State Prize for Children’s Poetry.

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  1. Derzeit gibt es noch eine Show über Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt hier bei uns in Berlin (Galeria akonzept) mit ihren typischen Schreibmaschinen-Arbeiten, eine Art visuelle Poesie. Sehr sehenswert.

    Bei mir im Blog aktuell noch ein Feature über DDR-Mailart zu finden hier:

    POSTCARDS FROM EAST-BERLIN / GDR

    Das wird dann wohl auch mein letzter Blog über Mailart sein, das ist ja gewissermaßen alles schon eher museal.

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