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Peter Brötzmann: Metallbilder & Collagen
February 3rd through 28th, 1961
Galerie Schnoor in Bremen
Opening reception on Saturday 3, 5PM with words by Dr. Herbert Sittig
and music by
Peter Brötzmann-tenor saxophone
Dietrich Rauschtenberger-drums
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Drawings, Paintings & Objects
by Han Bennink and Peter Brötzmann
February 26th through March 4th, 1979
Akademie der Künste/Exhibition Halls 1 and 3
Opening reception on February 25th, 1979
with
Peter Brötzmann - reeds; Misha Mengelberg - piano, voice;
Han Bennink - drums, percussion, everything/anything |
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Peter Brötzmann: Objects and Paintings from 1959 - 1996
September 28th through November 3rd, 2002
Ystads Konstmuseum / Ystad Art Museum
Opening at 3 PM with speech by John Corbett and a performance by Martin Hall.
One of the really important musicians in free jazz and improvised music started as a painter. We will show objects and paintings from 1959 – 1996, first time gathered in an exhibition.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 120 pp, full color catalog. Photos |
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The Inexplicable Flyswatter:
Works on Paper by Peter Brötzmann
March 7th through March 28th, 2003
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
1926 Exhibition Studies Space
The Inexplicable Flyswatter:
Works on Paper by Peter Brötzmann
April 1st through May 18th, 2003
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee
The exhibitions are accompanied by a 48 pp, full color catalog.
Peter Brötzmann, best known as one of the founders of European improvised music and one of the most important jazz saxophonists of the post-60's era, began his creative life as a painter. Brötzmann began painting and making collages while still a teenager in the 1950s, in the German cities of Remscheid and Wuppertal, part of the industrial Ruhrgebiet area where he grew up. By the time he was 25, when he finally and decisively committed himself to making music as a primary artistic endeavor, he had already mounted gallery exhibitions in Holland and Germany, collaborated in several key Fluxus events, and established working and personal relationships with international figures of the expanded arts, most closely Nam June Paik and
Tomas Schmit.
The Inexplicable Flyswatter is the first North American exhibition of Brötzmann's visual art that follows up on his recent Swedish retrospective last year at Ystads Konstmuseum in Sweden in late 2002. The subject of this exhibition at Woodland Pattern Book Center (on view last month at Chicago's Gallery 1926) will be works on paper (paintings, collages, lithographs) created over a four year period from 1959 to 1964, more than half of which focus on a common, peculiar image: the flyswatter.
"An ideal dadaistic image, the flyswatter unites elements of humor and violence in a versatile visual schema - rectangular two-dimensional swatting surface with uniformly distributed perforations - that suggests grid-like patterning and formal repetition."
© John Corbett
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Double Exhibition Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink
November 19th through December 23rd, 2005 .
Galerie der Stadt Remscheid
Opening reception November 19th, 4PM
with speech by Klaus Küster and John Corbett, Art Institute of Chicago
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Peter Brötzmann Paintings & Objects
October 26th through November 30th, 2007
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Opening reception October 26th, 2007
Renowned internationally as a musician, saxophonist and clarinetist Peter Brötzmann has maintained a parallel life as a visual artist. His first exhibitions took place in Europe during the early 1960s, when he also worked with Nam June Paik and participated in Fluxus events. His efforts as a painter and fabricator of objects have been featured in periodic exhibitions, including a 2005 retrospective in Remscheid, Germany, and a show of very early works in Chicago two years prior. This is the first major survey of Brötzmann's recent work in the U.S., featuring large format works on canvas and small scale assemblages, as well as an assortment of older pieces.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 100 pp, full color catalog.
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Peter Brötzmann: Wood & Water - Works on Paper
February 19th through March 27th, 2010
Corbett v. Dempsey
Opening reception: Friday, February 19th, 5 – 9 PM
The exhibition is accompanied by a 36 pp, full color catalog
with an introduction by Alan Warner
Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of artwork by Peter Brötzmann. Brötzmann is perhaps best known as a musician, but has been consistently making and occasionally exhibiting visual art in Europe and America since 1959. In 2007, CvsD mounted the first major survey of Brötzmann's artwork in the United States, a show that focused heavily on his large paintings and constructions. Now, two years later, Wood & Water features his recent small-scale work on paper, including woodcut prints and watercolors.
Despite their difference in scale and media, these works maintain the elegant roughness that characterizes both Brötzmann's music and his larger artwork. Some of the subject matter is the same. For example, his interest in industrial and natural landscapes remains; the belching smokestacks and hump-backed steel bridges that surround Brötzmann's hometown of Wuppertal, Germany, are gouged out in one of his stark black and white woodcuts. Meanwhile, in his watercolors, Mother Nature's lumpy hills, heavy clouds, and skeletal trees are painted in gorgeous washes of black, purple, and gray. Brötzmann's material inventiveness is also on display here. Some of the pieces in the show make use of the textural and chromatic qualities of wrinkled foil wrappers, round paper pie plates, and instant coffee. These prints and paintings require only the simplest ingredients (wood, water, pigment, paper), but Brötzmann's skill lies in using them to create extraordinary formal complexity and raw emotional power.
Brötzmann's artwork has been shown sporadically around the world for decades, including a retrospective in Remscheid, Germany in 2005 and an exhibition of early work in Chicago in 2003. Brötzmann came of age in the 1960s at the same time as many of Germany's most famous artists, including Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz. Early on, he worked extensively with Nam Jun Paik and the Fluxus group, and since then he has performed musically all over the world. Until recently, he had maintained his art-making as a relatively private and personal occupation. The intimate artworks in this show are a window into Brötzmann's sustained accomplishment as a visual artist.
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Peter Brötzmann Graphic Work (1968-2010)
May 5th through May 29th, 2010
Opening reception: Wednesday May 5th, 6-8 PM
The Narrows
2/141 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
P: ++ 61 03 9654 1534 M: ++ 61 04 1301 3144
Open: Wednesday – Friday 12-6 PM Saturday 12-5 PM
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Brötzmann
Arbeiten 1959 – 2010
April 8th through June 18th, 2011
Opening reception : Friday April 8th, 8 PM
Galerie Epikur
Wuppertal, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße152a
Open: Tuesday - Friday 2-7 PM / Saturday 1-6 PM
The exhibition is accompanied by a 80 pp, full color catalog
with texts
(in German and English)
by John Corbett, Mike Pearson and Susanne Buckesfeld.
Catalog obtainable here.
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BRÖTZMANN - LONG STORY SHORT
November 3rd through December 11th, 2011
MKH-Fabrik, Wels, Austria
(Galerie der Stadt Wels)
Opening reception November 3rd, 7PM, 19 Uhr
with music (9 PM, 21Uhr) by
SONORE
(Brötzmann, Gustafsson, Vandermark)
plus guest John Tchicai
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