{"id":9358,"date":"2018-11-17T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2018-11-18T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T19:13:48","slug":"frey-on-friedrich-kunath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/17\/frey-on-friedrich-kunath\/","title":{"rendered":"Frey on Friedrich Kunath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/node\/3371185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from\u00a0BLOUIN ARTINFO<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"col-md-9\">\n<h1>Friedrich Kunath\u2019s \u201cOne Man\u2019s Ceiling is Another Man\u2019s Floor\u201d at Blum &amp; Poe, New York<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">BY BLOUIN ARTINFO<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1050w615h\/public\/friedrich1.jpg?itok=hxIvCQQv\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blum &amp; Poe at New York is presenting \u201cOne Man\u2019s Ceiling is Another Man\u2019s Floor,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/artists\/206361-friedrich-kunath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friedrich Kunath<\/a>\u2019s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, which is on view through December 22.<\/p>\n<p>This show follows Kunath\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFrutti di Mare\u201d\u00a0(2017) \u2014a carpeted, scented, multi-room installation flecked with tie-died tube socks and outfitted with mirrored floors, a mechanical spinning canvas, and a vertical piano.<\/p>\n<p>According to the gallery press note, Kunath carries on his study of a dichotomous human condition\u2014an exploration in happiness and sadness, romanticism, nostalgia, longing, the fetish of authenticity, and the myth of genius. This exhibition negotiates the facets of personal experience registered on a psycho-emotional pendulum that swings between the search for deep existential meaning and purpose, and a frenetic, nonsensical and humorous nihilism.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery reveals that in conjunction with this exhibition, a new major monograph devoted to the last fifteen years of Kunath\u2019s work will be released by Rizzoli Electa. Entitled\u00a0\u201cI Don\u2019t Worry Anymore,\u201d this book offers new insights into the artist\u2019s work across media, organized conceptually rather than chronologically in eight chapters.<\/p>\n<p>The book features new writing by four contributors\u2014art historian James Elkins takes an historical approach to Kunath\u2019s work, linking him to both recent and older traditions of European painting; Ariana Reines contributes a poem inspired by the artist\u2019s work; James Frey offers a short essay\u00a0motivated by\u00a0Kunath\u2019s persona; and the artist and John McEnroe, the famed tennis player, have a spirited conversation about their shared passion for the game of tennis.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/node\/3371185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to read full article at BLOUIN ARTINFO<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from\u00a0BLOUIN ARTINFO Friedrich Kunath\u2019s \u201cOne Man\u2019s Ceiling is Another Man\u2019s Floor\u201d at Blum &amp; Poe, New York BY BLOUIN ARTINFO Blum &amp; Poe at New York is presenting \u201cOne Man\u2019s Ceiling is Another Man\u2019s Floor,\u201d Friedrich Kunath\u2019s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, which is on view through December 22. This show follows Kunath\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFrutti di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}