David Zwirner
525 W 19th St
212.727.2070
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Neo Rauch, Vater, Courtesy David Zwirner
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Opens Monday May 12, 2008 (6–8pm)
May 13, 2008 – June 21, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Many critics think Neo Rauch is too slick for his own good — a hunky, brooding German painter with an abiding art-world buzz and a name that could be mistaken for a modernist movement. But the chatter falls away in front of the work itself: the core of the New Leipzig School, Rauch plays on socialist realism with markedly surreal shifts in time and subject matter. His continuous-narrative paintings merge figures with architectural elements, and change the time of day in the length of a soldier's stride — it's as though the artist is continually turning his head while choosing what to paint, and where.
