Mari Kim

It always is a pleasure to watch Mari Kim planning an exhibition with her works. This time, the exhibition celebrates summer times in many various aspects of beauty and abondance. Again we are curious and can hardly expect the arrival of her recent artistic dialogue with the most famous modern masters.

It starts with James McNeill Whistler, the American painter and etcher who is among the European artists who practise "Japonism" in the 1860ies. An interesting link to Mari Kim, whose work is as well about the excitement to observe what happens if you merge different cultures. While Whistler's "Symphonie in White No.1" was received with misunderstanding and even hate, Mari Kim has a growing following all over the world and is right now in the middle of conquering sophisticated New York. She chooses as a new work by a German artist a work by Karl Hofer, whose late work we have been showing in the 1990 at our gallery at Potsdamer Straße 58. After World War II he was the first director of the Berlin University of art and a very respected personality, although his prefered painterly style was figurative, which in cold war times was infamous as being communistic. Come and admire Mari Kim's version of the woman on green by Klimt, her Estonian girl from the end of the 19th century, her most elegant ladies in van Dongen's notorious of being excessive elegance and beauty. Once you have seen it all, think about the exciting dialogue that one of her works might add to works of your own collection.