The Metropolitan Museum in New York City has created an exhibit matching paintings of these two artists, who lived at the same time in Paris. Seeing it is experiencing the life in Paris the last part of the 19th Century.https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/manet-degas
Thomas Bayrle, is one of the most prolific
and pioneering German artists of his post-war generation. Since the 1960s he
addresses recurrent themes such as labour, power, economics and religion,
narrating the relationship between individual and collective dynamics in society.
Anticipating the pixel aesthetic in the
digital image-making, Bayrle is famous for his "superforms", complex
patterns constructed from images of people, goods, and machines, that the
artist has interpreted through a wide range of media, from printing techniques
to painting, from sculpture to film.
www.frieze.com/tags/thomas-bayrle
Jennifer Guidi wants her work to
make you pause. She is aware of the relentless stream of information that is targeted
at you throughout your day, then lulls you to sleep at night. The Los
Angeles-based artist hopes her rhythmic abstractions will pull people out of their
hamster wheel and into a place of calm awareness. Once you ascend to this plane
of existence, you’ll begin to notice all sorts of things, including the
distinct (like sequoia green, sunset salmon, hazy blue) that populate the
paintings. Or the almost topographical marks that punctuate the canvas.
www.jenniferguidi.com
