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There's a Bluebird in my Heart

Abetz & Drescher

Neal Fox

Ivar Kaasik

Wolfgang Neumann

Tim Plamper

1. November – 22. November 2014

Opening  Samstag / Saturday, 1 November 2014 19 – 21 Uhr / 7 – 9 pm

"There's a Bluebird in my Heart..." – the delicate songbird, native to North America, which the poet Charles Bukowski evokes in verse in his great The Last Night of the Earth Poems as an image, belongs to the species of the thrushes. Its feathers at the neck and belly are colored like a red robin, while its head, back, and tail feathers are brightly blue. In English, “blue” also means melancholy, sad, or lewd, coarse, and a “bird” can also be a woman, a bimbo, but also a guy or chum.

  Bukowski, the hard-boiled guy, the “gentle man slut”, as a German newspaper once called him, coquettes in the verses of this poem with a soft, romantic soul hidden deep in his heart, concealed from the external world.

In our exhibition, visitors can see paintings by Abetz & Drescher, Neal Fox, Ivar Kaasik, Wolfgang Neumann, and Tim Plamper, portraying not just Bukowksi, but also other icons of rock and pop culture who had the blues, or indeed still have it: Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Jack White, Paul McCartney und Gustaf Norén, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Jean Genet and Jack Kerouac, also Doctor Freud, who discovered the blue bird locked in deep inside of us.

The venerated public may regard this exhibition, which will be on show for only three weeks, as a prelude to an event with which in December we will close off this very successful year for the gallery: a special exhibition to mark the 75th birthday of the Turkish author Aras Ören, member of the German Academy of Arts, who has been living in Berlin since 1969.

Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art Berlin

www.berlin-contemporary-art.com

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Club des Cornichons at the Cafe de Flore, Paris

as part of Le Parcours Saint-Germain

Vernissage Tuesday 21st October 6 - 9pm

exhibition continues until 31st October

172 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris 

In a new exhibition at the famous Café de Flore, Le Gun present a life size recreation of the Club des Cornichons, lost hangout of breakaway surrealist group Le Calmar Noir (The Black Squid). Known for their enigmatic installations which blur the line between drawing and three dimensions, the five artists of Le Gun turn another drawing into a walk-in experience. This show follows their popular 'Ambulance' installation shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Drawing Now, Paris, with Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève.

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Cob Gallery and Le Gun present

The Harlot and the Rake 

an exhibition at Blacks Club, Soho, London

October 14th - 31st 2014

Blacks Club, 67 Dean Street, London, w1D 4QH

Private View: Tuesday 14th October, 6:30pm -late

RSVP essential: info@cobgallery.com

or view by appointment

The inimitable satirist William Hogarth used to buy his paints at a shop in Soho which has since become the members club Blacks... now Le Gun have created a new series of drawings based around the Rake and the Harlot, two of Hogarth's most famous characters. They meet in Bedlam and embark on a journey into the dark empty heart of a vacuous celebrity obsessed society. The drawings will also be brought to life in animation as the lovers frolic in the boudoir and make a celebrity sex etching...

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I was recently asked to make a new sign for the French House, my favourite pub in Soho, to celebrate their 100th birthday as bohemia's favourite London petrol station... its based on Liberty Leading the People by Delecroix, but with added booze, fags and fleurs du mal...

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My Jodorowski inspired Disney massacre Sangre de Los Pervertidos is on the cover of the latest Saatchi Gallery magazine ...

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I am in Berlin this week for Abracadabra, a group show at Egbert Baque Contemporary Art , on until 30th August 2014 Abetz & Drescher • Winston Chmielinski • Neal Fox Giuseppe Gonella • Ivar Kaasik • Mrs. Chy • Wolfgang Neumann Tim Plamper • Poet73 • Snapple

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I am in a group show of British artists in New York

featuring Paul Banks, IIItyd Barrett, Neal Fox, Stephen Hall, Steve Joester, Mark Loader, Alan McGowan, Caroline McKenty, Marguerite Van Cook Westbeth Art Gallery, 55 Bethune Street, at Washington Street, NY, NY 10014 opening saturday June 21st 6 - 9pm exhibition June 21 - July 6 2014

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Had a great few weeks working on drawings in Cazalla de la Sierra in Andalucia, and then showing them in Rome, as part of the exhibition Iconic/Ironic at Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, with the artists Fausto Gilberti and Hell'o Monsters. The exhibition is on until september...

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I had a very fun trip to Paris lately where i was doing a show at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve called Smell the Roses on the way Along... its on until May 31st... at the same i was showing with my friends Le Gun at Drawing Now Paris, an art fair devoted to drawing...

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