Ranvir Shah, cultural philanthropist, publishes feature article in The Hindu: Read it online HERE Content below: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, June 4, 2016, The Hindu by Ranvir Shah ‘Nachbarn’, Ken Aptekar’s show in Lübeck that ran from February to May, showed how world peace can boil down to simply being good neighbours I first met artist…
Read the insightful, informative, and provocative essays–in German and English (CLICK AUTHORS’ NAMES): St. Annen Museum Director, Dr. Thorsten Rodiek, author of Das Monumento nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II. in Rom. (Europäische Hochschulschriften Reihe 28 Kunstgeschichte Band 30), P. Lang, Frankfurt/Main – New York – Paris 1983. Zugl.: Stuttgart, Univ., Diss., 1981; James Stirling, die neue…
Lara Mallien of OYA Magazine covers Nachbarn in this progressive German magazine. Read ONLINE HERE (and click “Nein, ich möchte kostenfrei weiterlesen” for free access)
CLICK HERE TO SEE REVIEW IN KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL (IN GERMAN) [Translated from the German, BELOW] KEN APTEKAR: NACHBARN/NEIGHBORS, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany 7 February-29 May 2016 Many years went by before the American artist Ken Aptekar could realize his project. Confronting the expulsion and murder of Jews in Nazi Germany is practically merely…
For a video walk-through of Nachbarn/Neighbors, CLICK HERE
Recent Portraits, Graham Gallery, 2010 Instead of showing the person, my portraits describe how the sitter looks–at paintings. The excitement and challenge for me results from interacting with an individual across paintings from the past, discovering indirectly something essential about that person. The idea comes out of my conviction that a painting really only begins…