New york times - Saturday, March 07, 2009
Beyond the armory
Patrick Cierpka's "Standfest" at the Volta fair in Midtown Manhatten.
Volta, which shares a parent company with the Armory Show, "stives to be seen as its younger, hipper sin´bling", writes the Times's karen Rosenberg.
Armory Week 2009 - Saturday, March 07, 2009
Volta Art Fair, Volta NY Art Fair Review Saturday
written by Nikki Schiro in New York
"... I have been seeing a lot of attempts to bring together figurative (realism) and non-representational methods, a trend throughout the fairs and some recent shows. Of most of what I seen, many are just that, attempts, while others manage to find, within their own language, a means to successfully accomplish this. Here at Volta, there are examples of the latter.
I thought Patrick Cierpka, at Jarmuschek+Partner, Germany, was successful at doing this. The figurative parts are well integrated into a space created by the non-representational shapes and colors. The paintings were fluid, and the figures, though painted well and distinct, became forms symbolic of people, devoid of any real character, abstract, if you will. ..."
Berliner Zeitung - 26. August 2002
TAGESTIP: AUSSTELLUNG Wachtürme und Schwimmerkappen
In der Galerie des Gehag-Forums ist kaum zu übersehen, dass die ausstellenden Künstler Patrick Cierpka und Matthias Röhrborn sich auf Berlin beziehen. ...weiter