Remington 700 Varmint

06/26/2010 to 07/31/2010 14th

" Luna Park. Julio Paz († 2010), Antique / Peter Burkhard, photography

(Julio Paz Amor por las nubes, 1982)

The etchings of the 1939 born in Buenos Aires artist Julio Paz speak of great experimentation, of uncommon ingenuity and sovereignty in the use of technical means. They show heroes of sport and entertainment, lovers, sex workers, bureaucrats and artists, and are sometimes of biting sarcasm. His motives are rooted in the social and political reality of his native Argentina, also help even after he literally could flee at the last moment in 1976, together with his wife, Clara, from the military junta to Milan. From there he has made several trips to Berlin. Particularly the impressions from the eastern part of the city inspired him to create new works.

His paintings and prints hung in museums and galleries in Berlin, London, Madrid, New York, Prague and Tokyo. Many works are in public ownership. For his unusual etchings, he received numerous awards and honors. Opened in 1992 by Mara Moya »Café Paz" in Berlin-Mitte he wore in honor of that name. Julio Paz died in early 2010 in Milan. The Gallery Forum Amalienpark he devotes an exhibition together with photographer Peter Burkhard.

(Burkhard Peter, "From the series" Borderland, 2002-2004)

Like Julio Paz is also Burkhard Peter the man at the center of artistic interest. For the image series "frontier" and "Woodstock", which can be seen in the exhibition, he found his designs on the German and Polish side of the Oder, at carnivals, music festivals on village streets and suburbs. These people do not belong predominantly to the "center" of society, but rather to the losers, marginalized, or even the misfits. Their eyes on the viewer are serious, hesitantly, asking to become disillusioned, they have an impression of melancholy, loneliness and resignation. Peter Burke shows people on a factual, not denunciatory still romanticized nature, full of sympathy and concern.

curators of the exhibition: Dorothy Helen Jacobs and Mara Moya