Jimmy DeSana & Paul P. Kuratorenführung

with Paul P. and Krist Gruijthuijsen

In English language

Location: KW, meeting point at the counter

Registration via: mediation@kw-berlin.de

Participation included in exhibition ticket.

Limited number of participants.

On selected dates, curators and artists will guide visitors through the exhibition they have conceived. Visitors will have the opportunity to talk to the experts, ask them questions and gain in-depth insights.

Canadian artist Paul P. has been known for around 20 years for his melancholy drawings and paintings and, more recently, sculptures in the form of furniture. He finds most of the motifs for his portraits in the archives of gay magazines, especially from the period between the beginning of the gay movement and the start of the AIDS crisis. He thus draws on existing images of young gay men and stages them anew. His fragile and dreamlike works, which are reminiscent of 19th century portraiture, distance and liberate the subjects from their specific context and give them something mysterious that is as timeless as it is seductive. In his more recent work, the artist has further developed his expression of beauty full of cultural tragedy and presents his brooding motifs in the context of atmospheric abstraction, sombre landscapes and allegorical sculptures.