Friedrich Kunath
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310217849
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128896
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129246
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130276
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131838
abstract: "Friedrich Kunath's work is permeated with ambiguity. His personal journey from East to West Berlin, towards his new-found home in Los Angeles presented Kunath with a wide variety of source material ranging from the canon of art history and German philosophy to the idiom of kitsch and the make-believe world of Hollywood and LA. Many of which are impacted by two poles--the culture of wisdom and popular culture--to the point of obsession and even, at times, systematization. Dealing with the universal themes of human existence, such as love, loss, optimism, vulnerability and melancholy, he serves a variety of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, drawing, video and photography, to expansive installations, all provided with a tragicomic pathos and dreams of possibilities. In almost every work, the realization is tangible that the world is a spectacle of unfulfilled dreams, in which the rawness of life is fled through the parallel universe of popular culture."-- Provided by publisher.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310217851
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311217442
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310217849
language: dut
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: lang
  text: Text in English and Dutch.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301324086

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 324086