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Lange Nacht der Museen
[Long night of the Museums]

Rheinlust - new work by Pete Clarke, Liverpool and Georg Gartz, Cologne
Pete Clarke & Georg Gartz have produced paintings & projects in England and Germany since 1998 and have made reciprocal exhibitions, publications and invited gallery and conference presentations in Germany, Poland and the UK, for example Tate Gallery, Liverpool 2004 and ‘In exposed areas’ at the Kulturbunker, Mülheim, Köln and Atkinson Art Gallery Southport 2006.
In May 2007 Pete Clarke and Georg Gartz started Rheinlust following Turner’s travels and journeys in Germany along the Rivers Rhine and Mosel. The project explored Rolandseck, Drachenfels, Nonnenwerth and St Goarhausen on the Rhine, Cochem and Burg Eltz on the Mosel, iconic places depicted in Turner’s ‘Romantic’ paintings and sketchbooks producing new transcriptions and re-invented images.

The collaborative project by Clarke &Gartz questions concepts of nationality, within a European context, ‘the regional in the international’. The historic work of Turner is explored to personify and critique concepts of national influence and cultural production .

‘Long night of the museums’,
Rheinlust by Pete Clarke & Georg Gartz will be exhibited as a major part of the ‘Die Lange Nacht der Museen’ [the long night of the museums] when Köln has a celebratory evening for the visual arts organised by the City of Köln and sponsored by the Stadt Review.

Pete Clarke studied at Burnley, Bristol and M.A. in Fine Art Chelsea School of Art. He is MA Course Leader in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. His work explores the social landscape through the represention of history.
www.peteclarke.org.uk

Georg Gartz studied painting at the Fachhochschule in Köln. In his numerous European exhibitions he has worked in a variety of inventive ways including painting, installation and site related works. Georg Gartz and Jürgen Kisters developed the first "Eight Days A Week" festival in1998.
www.georg-gartz.de

Kulturbunker Mülheim e.V. Berliner Str. 20 51063 Köln
Rheinlust


Neue Arbeiten von Pete Clarke, Liverpool und Georg Gartz, Köln
Seit 1998 arbeiten die beiden Künstler gemeinsam an dem Projekt ,Chatting with Colours' - einem Dialog künstlerischer Zusammenarbeit. Im Sommer diesen Jahres sind sie auf den Spuren von William Turner den Rhein hinaufgezogen und haben bekannte ,Turnermotive' aufgegriffen. Einige der vor Ort entstandenen Zeichnungen und Aquarelle sind innerhalb einer Installation im Konferenz-raum des Kulturbunkers zu sehen.
Außerhalb der Museumsnacht sind Sie am Sonntag, dem 4. 11. 2007
von 14 – 17 Uhr zu einem „Private View“ mit den Künstlern eingeladen.