Horst BaerenzCao - A Master of Realism

SPLASH - German POP Art von BaerenzCao
in Sonderausstellung
Frankfurter EXPLORA Museum Science Center

1. Oktober bis 27. November 2016

Einladung zur Finissage am 27. November 2016  16 h

Lesung mit Autorin Kristiane Müller-Urban

"Wer auf Patio steht, liegt richtig" (BaerenzCao war einer der Gründerväter von Patio im Jahre 1963)

"...Es ist schier unmöglich, noch kein Bild von BaerenzCao gesehen zu haen. Von Dublin bis Beijing wurden seine Bilder ausgestellt. Er schuf Titelbilder für satirische und medizinische Zeitschriften, viele Illustrationen für Kalender und Bücher. Zum Beispiel für das Buch "Rezepte mit Riesling", Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. Zusammen mit der Autorin Kristiane Müller-Urban erhielt BaerenzCao dafür den Gourmand World Cookbook Award, den Kochbuch-Oskar.

Wer wissen will, mit welcher Brille Tolstoi zu lesen ist und wie ein US-amerikanischer POP-Star im nassen Badeanzug aussieht, besuch die BaerenzCao-Ausstellung. Für Besucher der Buchmesse ist der Eintritt frei, geöffnet täglich von 11 - 18 Uhr..."

            Text-Auszug von Eberhard Urban (Autor und Herausgeber)

Horst Baerenz, Kegeln, (Bowling) 3D-Objekt, 1969

The [cwg]christine wagner gallery has arranged a broad exhibition of the work of Offenbach's celebrated master of Realism, Horst BaerenzCao, at the Frankfurter Explora Science Museum. BaerenzCao's work is closely associated with the Arts Group Patio Galerie und Verlag which he and painters Mario BARAHONA, Walter KROE, Dieter WETZK und Walter ZIMBRICH formed in 1963.

The group moved to Sachsenhausen in 1966 and back to Neu-Isenburg in 1983. The youthful, creative atmosphere offered not just space to work but more, the freedom to experiment. Early friendships were with Walter E. RICHARTZ, Adam SEIDE, Roland KUNKEL, and Heidi FROMMANN but especially important in this formative period were the encouragement of artists such as Bernhard JÄGER, Thomas BAYRLE, of the Gulliver Press, and the typographer Klaus MÜNCHSCHWANDER.

In 1966, the Pioneering Patio Galerie und Verlag gave Timm ULRICHS his first opportunity to present himself as "The First Living Artwork" and arranged the first presentation of Stanley BROUWN's the "Step Counter of Amsterdam", both were the first of these presentations in Germany. The importance of the Patio Galerie und Verlag before the general development of German Pop-Art und culture in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich ist still not fully appreciated. Although the art and cultural scene in Frankfurt stood in a minor relation to those of the Rhineland, and German Pop-Art was seen as less important, nonetheless, the small Patio Galerie und Verlag in Frankfurt and Neu-Isenburg was an exception.

These were years of continuous exhibitions by Horst BaerenzCao and later in Dublin, Göttingen and Hamburg, terminating in the Workers' Cultural Palace in Beijing. Horst BaerenzCao's original graphics still often appear in numerous books and collections of works of art and in over 150 Patio Galerie und Verlag publications. Examples of Patio Galerie und Verlag are to be found today in the Deutsche Bibliothek, Klingspor Museum - Buch- und Schriftkunstmuseum in Offenbach and others.

BaerenzCao's many, various works, include vast, coloured etchings, felt-pen drawings, architectural restorations and illustrations for the formerly renowned, satirical magazine 'Pardon' and the Germin issue of 'Mad' magazine.

In 2015, Horst BaerenzCao was commissioned to produce a three-dimensional, painted, wooden model of the famous Frankfurt "Hühnermarkt" (Chickenmarket) which can be seen today in the Frankfurter Explora Science Museum. Following the retrospective in the renowned Patio Galerie und Verlag to honour Horst BaerenzCao in May 2015, the [cwg]christine wagner gallery held the 'Trari Trara'exhibition which echoes the 'Post-Card Exhibition' of the Patio Galerie und Verlag in 1966.

Horst BaerenzCao "SPLASH" - new works of Pop-Art can now be seen at the Frankfurter Explora Science Center Museum, Lortzingstrasse 15, 60318 Frankfurt (Nordend) from 1 October 2016 to 15 January 2017. Vernissage 1. October 2016, 7 pm