Exhibition Archive - Akim Monet Curatorial 2011-2021

Berlin (2011-2018): Rodin Rilke Beuys (Fall 2015)

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  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Blueprint on polyester film190 x 99 cmSigned, titled and stampedOne of 180 numbered prints from a total edition of 198Modern Art Agency, Naples, and Edition Tangente, HeidelbergSchellmann 49
  • Either happiness or art. And indeed that is all so clear, so clear. The great men have all let their lives become overgrown like an old road and have carried everything into their art. Their lives are stunted like an organ they no longer need.Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to Clara Rilke, September 5, 1902
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Bronze with a dark brown patina82,5 x 54,5 x 34 cmSigned and numbered ‘A. Rodin No 6/8’ (on the top of the base)Inscribed with foundry mark ‘E. GODARD Fondr’ (on the left side of the base)Inscribed and dated ‘© BY MUSÉE Rodin 1987’ (on the back of the base)
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  • In this poet's verses there were passages, standing out prominently, that did not seem to have been written but moulded; words and groups of words that had melted under the glowing touch of the poet; lines that were like reliefs and sonnets that carried like columns with interlaced capitals the burden of a cumulating thought. Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, translated by Jessie Lamont and Hans Trausil (New York, Sunwise Turn Inc., 1919)
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Graphite and watercolor on wove paper mounted to original board25 x 32.5 cmMonogrammed in graphite at the bottom right: ‘A. R.’ and signed over it: ‘Aug. Rodin’
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Lithograph on paper, laid down on gray Rives wove38,5 x 28,3 cmSigned lower middle, inscribed ‘good to print’Inscribed on the reverse ‘13’Print with the artist’s handwritten printing notes prior to the Edition of 75 + XXV + 10 Proofs + 24 APsSchellmann 355
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Pen and brown ink on wove paperVerso: pencil on paper37.3 x 24.4 cm
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Pen and brown ink on wove paperVerso: pencil on paper37.3 x 24.4 cm
  • One may always explain, accompany and surround Rodin's works with thoughts. For all to whom simple contemplation is too difficult and unaccustomed a road to beauty there are other roads, detours leading to meanings that are noble, great, complete. The infinite correctness of these creations, the perfect balance of all their movements, the wonderful inward justice of their proportions, their penetration into life—all that makes them beautiful—gives them the strength of being unsurpassable materializations of the ideas which the master called into being when he named them. Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, translated by Jessie Lamont and Hans Trausil (New York, Sunwise Turn Inc., 1919)
  • Book with 81 granolithographs, 156 pages, half-cloth23 x 17 cmCopies 101-1000 including a granolithograph23 x 32 cm, folded to book format9 different motifsEdition size of the book: 398/1000100 of each motif (9 motifs), signed and numberedPublisher: Manus Presse, Stuttgart (CR: 177-185)
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Book with 81 granolithographs, 156 pages, half-cloth23 x 17 cmCopies 101-1000 including a granolithograph23 x 32 cm, folded to book format9 different motifsEdition size of the book: 398/1000100 of each motif (9 motifs), signed and numberedPublisher: Manus Presse, Stuttgart (CR: 177-185)
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Catalogue-box, 20 x 16 x 3 cmFelt piece, 19, 5 x 15, 5 x 1 cmStamped with oil paint (brown cross)Edition Size: 294/330, numbered, unsignedPublisher: Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach (CR: 5)
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Bronze with black and green patina – sand-cast processHeight 5,4 cmInscribed ‘A. Rodin’ on the inside of the wrist andWith the foundry mark ‘G. Rudier / Fond. Paris’ on the outside of the wrist Conceived between 1890-1908, cast in 1966
  • There are among the works of Rodin hands, single, small hands which, without belonging to a body, are alive. Hands that rise, irritated and in wrath; hands whose five bristling fingers seem to bark like the five jaws of a dog of Hell. Hands that walk, sleeping hands, and hands that are awaking; criminal hands, tainted with hereditary disease; and hands that are tired and will do no more, and have lain down in some corner like sick animals that know no one can help them.Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, translated by Jessie Lamont and Hans Trausil (New York, Sunwise Turn Inc., 1919)
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Pencil on paper29,8 x 20,9 cmInscribed along the lower edge 'Die Plastische Hand'
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Graphite on lined Japan paper29.5 x. 19.3 cmSigned at the bottom right: ‘A. Ro(din)’
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Etching on gray handmade paper37,8 x 28 cmInscribed middle ‘version b. good to print’Inscribed on the reverse ‘No 28 II’Print with the artist’s handwritten printing notes prior to the Edition of 75 + XXV + 27 HC + a few APsSchellmann 423
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Graphite, stump, watercolor and gouache on watermarked laid paper17.7 x 11.5 cm
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Etching on handmade paper38,5 x 28,5 cmInscribed lower middle, ‘version a. good to print’Inscribed on the reverse ‘No 38’Print with the artist’s handwritten printing notes prior to the Edition of 75 + XXV + 15 HC + a few APsSchellmann 433
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Bronze16,5 x 11,3 x 19,5 cmFonte GodardEd. 8/8, © by Musée Rodin 2004
  • However great the movement of a sculpture may be, though it spring out of infinite distances, even from the depths of the sky, it must return to itself, the great circle must complete itself, the circle of solitude that encloses a work of art.Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, translated by Jessie Lamont and Hans Trausil (New York, Sunwise Turn Inc., 1919)
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Lithograph in colors, on Rag paper, the full sheet56 x 75.9 cm Signed and numbered 82/90 in pencil(30 impressions in Roman numerals reserved for museums, +15 APs)Published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin and Pantheon Presse, Rome
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Graphite, pen, brown ink, ink wash drawing, heightened with gouache on wove paper9.8 x 7 cmDedicated by Rodin on the original support: ‘To my friend, Henley’
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Etching and aquatint on gray handmade paper38 x 28,5 cmInscribed below right, ‘good to print’Inscribed on the reverse ’32 B’Print with the artist’s handwritten printing notes prior to the Edition of 75 + XXV + 17 HC + a few APsSchellmann 429
  • It so happens that most people do not realize how beautiful the world is and how much splendor revealed in the smallest things, in some flower, a stone, a tree bark or birch leaf itself.Letter to Helmuth Westhoff, November 12, 1901
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Graphite on wove paper mounted to board24.1 x 31.8 cmSigned in graphite at the bottom left: ‘A. R.’Inscribed on the verso on the board with stencil, black ink: ‘A. Rodin /Drawing /Frame’n°153; annotated with brush: a picture framer label 106; ‘Moirinat’
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Bronze41 x 48,8 x 41,8 cmFonte E. GodardEd. 5/8, © by Musée Rodin 1998Inscribed ‘A. Rodin’, numbered, dated, and stamped with foundry mark
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Etching on dun-colored paper, laid over gray handmade paper30 x 39,7 cmSigned upper left, twice inscribed ‘up,’ inscribed ‘otherwise good to print’Inscribed on the reverse ‘A’Print with the artist’s handwritten printing notes prior to the Edition of 75 + XXV + 10 APs + a few APsSquare format in the later editions, as here penciled by the artist; present print executed as portraitSchellmann 53r
  • There was no haughtiness in him. He pledged himself to a humble and difficult beauty that he could oversee, summon and direct. The other beauty, the great beauty, had to come when everything was prepared, as animals come to a drinking-place in the forest in the late night when nothing foreign is there.Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, translated by Jessie Lamont and Hans Trausil (New York, Sunwise Turn Inc., 1919)
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Bronze with a brown patina 17,8 x 10,5 x 15 cmsigned 'Rodin' on the rockconceived in 1885, the present cast was executed before 1914
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Phosphorus between PVC sheets, with metal clamp45 x 45 x 0.6 cmSignedOne of 100 numbered copiesKunstverein BraunschweigSchellmann 64B
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Graphite, watercolor, gouache, heightened with black pencil on wove paperWatermark: DALON LES-ANNONAY B CRAYON ACNE MANUFRE CANSON31.8 x 24.4 cmSigned at the bottom right: ‘A. Rodin’
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Original box with embossed iron plate and stamped magnetBox: 12.5 x 16.8 x 2.8 cmBox and iron sheet signedOne of about 500 copiesEdition Staeck, HeidelbergSchellmann 154
  • Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)Graphite on wove paper32 x 23.4 cmDedicated and signed lower right: ‘homage à /madame et Monsieur mon/collègue Walther/amitié/A. Rodin’
  • Joseph BEUYS (1921-1986)Felt blackboard eraser, stamped5 x 13 x 2,5 cm Ed. 106/550 (550 + 6 H.C.)Signed and numbered on the label
  • And now? Had not a time come again that was urging toward this expression—this strong and impressive exposition of what was unexpressed, confused, unrevealed? Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, translated by Jessie Lamont and Hans Trausil (New York, Sunwise Turn Inc., 1919)
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    • Of Mice and Men (Fall 2020)
    • Covid-19 project (Summer 2020)
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  • Berlin (2011-2018)
    • Mythology & Science (Fall 2017 & Spring 2018)
    • Curses, Blasphemies, Lamentations: Goya & Rodin (Spring 2017)
    • Homage to Auguste Rodin (Winter 2017)
    • Der Kandidat (Fall 2016)
    • Bridge over chaos (Spring 2016)
    • "1932" Rare Photographs by George Grosz (Winter 2016)
    • Musee Rodin Artgeneve (Winter 2016)
    • Rodin Rilke Beuys (Fall 2015)
    • Auguste Rodin: an expressionist eye (Spring 2015)
    • The Animals' Conference (Fall 2014 & Winter 2015)
    • The Hand of God (Spring 2014)
    • Women (winter 2014)
    • Dance of the seven veils (Fall 2013)
    • Abdulnasser Gharem (Spring 2013)
    • Kirchner - De Kooning (Winter 2013)
    • Sex is kicking death (Fall 2012)
    • The Sacred Heart (Spring 2012)
    • The Concrete & the Mystical (Winter 2012)
    • Fertility (Fall 2011)
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    • Mythology & Science
    • Curses, Blasphemies, Lamentations: Goya & Rodin
    • Homage to Auguste Rodin
    • Der Kandidat
    • Bridge over chaos
    • "1932" Rare Photographs by George Grosz
    • Rodin Rilke Beuys
    • Auguste Rodin: an expressionist eye
    • The Animals' Conference
    • The Hand of God
    • Women
    • Dance of the seven veils
    • Abdulnasser Gharem
    • Kirchner - De Kooning
    • Sex is kicking death
    • The Sacred Heart
    • The Concrete & the Mystical
    • Fertility
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    • 2020 Auguste Rodin & Joseph Beuys | an elision
    • 2020 new acquisition: first view of “Southern Comfort”
    • 2019 walkthrough of "Selective Selection from the collection of Akim & Anne-Marie Monet"
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    • 2013 Abdulnasser Gharem in Berlin
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      • RODIN: AN EXPRESSIONIST EYE
      • THE HAND OF GOD
      • THE AGGRESSIVE LINE
      • SEX IS KICKING DEATH
      • FERTILITY
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      • Open letter to Donald Trump (Letter)
      • Disruptive selection (Press release)
      • Goodbye Berlin, hello Los Angeles (Letter)
      • Mythology & Science (Press release)
      • Curses, Blasphemies, Lamentations: Goya & Rodin (Press release)
      • Homage à Auguste Rodin (Press release)
      • Der Kandidat (Press release)
      • Bridge over chaos (Press release)
      • Bridge over chaos (Exhibition notes)
      • Bridge over chaos (Listof works)
      • "1932" Rare Photographs by George Grosz (Press release)
      • Musée Rodin at Artgeneve2016 (Press release)
      • Rodin Rilke Beuys (Press release)
      • Auguste Rodin: an expressionist eye (Press release)
      • The Animals' Conference (Press release)
      • Hand of God (Press release)
      • Dance of the seven veils (Press release)
      • Gharem in London: Fall 2013 (Press release)
      • Gharem in Venice: Summer 2013 (Interview)
      • Gharem in Berlin: Spring 2013 (Press release)
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