Evariste Richer, Ellipse/Eclipse (detail), 2007

The Gregor Podnar and schleicher+lange galleries are pleased to announce Ellipse/Eclipse. This double exhibition project, which is taking place as part of the gallery exchange programme Berlin-Paris 2010, will be on display through March 13 in Berlin. The second part will take place from January 29 to March 20 at galerie schleicher+lange in Paris.

The two exhibitions, curated jointly by the two galleries, take their name from a work by Evariste Richer. In the project, each gallery is hosting artists from the other while at the same time showing artists from its own programme. In Berlin, the Galerija Gregor Podnar is presenting works by Attila Csörgö, Franziska Furter, Laurent Montaron, Goran Petercol and Evariste Richer. In Paris, galerie schleicher+lange presents Attila Csörgö, Vadim Fiskin, Alexander Gutke, Goran Petercol and Evariste Richer.

ELLIPSE / ECLIPSE – PART I
ATTILA CSÖRGÖ, FRANZISKA FURTER, LAURENT MONTARON, GORAN PETERCOL, EVARISTE RICHER
Exhibition Dates: January 16 – March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: January 15, 2010, 5pm – 9pm

GALERIJA GREGOR PODNAR
Lindenstrasse 35
10969 Berlin Germany
Gallery Hours: Tu – Sa 11am – 6pm

In 2001, Marilyn McCully wrote in her essay A Universe of Line (1): `Linda Karshan’s reputation as a highly original and accomplished artist has been steadily growing since the early 1990s. She is best known for her drawings on paper, some of them on a large scale, which combine the rigor of a grid structure with the spontaneity and expressiveness of a very personal marking system…´

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But perhaps, the best way to understand Linda Karshan’s work is through her own words:

`The drawings which greet me each day seem increasingly figurative, but that’s not entirely new. What is new is that they seem increasingly carved out, as if the lines have been incised into the surface rather than drawn over the page….These days the sense of carving feels evermore urgent as I go after that spareness of expression which Roberto Calasso calls `The Greek Thing´.´

About Linda Karshan: Born in Minneapolis, MN, has lived in London since 1968. Trained in the Bauhaus method of drawing at Skidmore College, NY, and educated in the psychoanalytical theories of Donald Winnecott, Karshan took on her studio in London in 1983. Since then, she maintains her absolute commitment to work that is unimpinged-upon-above all those dance-like procedures that emerged in 1994. Her work is regularly exhibited in galleries in London, Cologne, Munich, New York and San Francisco. Major museum exhibitions include Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (2002); Institute Valencia d’Art Modern (2002); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2003); Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2007). Karshan’s work is held in the collections of the British Museum, Tate, Contemporary Arts Society, Arts Council Collection, and Ashmoleon (Oxford) in the U.K.; IVAM, Valencia; Duke Franz Von Bayern Collection and Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Germany; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Cleveland, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Fogg Museum, Boston; and most recently, the Folkwang Museum in Essen, which acquired 13 of her drawings in 2008.

LINDA KARSHAN: It’s A Greek Thing
Exhibition Dates: January 15 – February 14, 2010
Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin is presenting 10 recent drawings, as well as an edition of prints to the Berlin audience.
Opening Reception With The Artist: January 15th, 2010, at 7pm.

Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin
Winterfeldtstr. 35
10781 Berlin
T: 030.21005237
Gallery Hours: W – F: 12noon – 6pm, and always by appointment

(1) Measure without Measure – the Art of Linda Karshan, Cacklegoose Press, copyright 2001

Press release and image provided by the gallery.