King Kong Art Cabinet

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King Kong Kunstkabinett is an artist group that was founded in 1977 in Munich and Frankfurt by the painters Walter Amann (* 1942), Wolfgang Schikora (* 1945) and Ulrich Zierold (* 1946) and continues to exist in this form today.

King Kong Kunstkabinett: Angel brings what you want , 2012, oil on canvas, 160 × 190 cm

history

Amann, Schikora and Zierold met in 1968 while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Since 1977 they have been working together in the King Kong Art Cabinet Munich / Frankfurt. The stimulus for the formation of groups was the building of bridges to the “expressive” tradition of the Munich artist groups SPUR (1957–1965), WIR (1959–1965), GEFLECHT (1965–1968) and - at that time - collective Herzogstraße (1975–1982). and the friendly closeness to the painting group WeibsBilder (1977–1988), which was founded at the same time .

The specialty of the group remains the clinging to “collective painting” for many years. There are no individual work by group members. Since Amann and Schikora live in Munich, but Zierold in Frankfurt, the works are sent back and forth between the cities for processing. There are also small and very small sculptures as well as graphic prints. The painting was accompanied from the beginning with filmic experiments, the so-called art films . Reading images are also repeatedly created for publications , with graphics annotated with text.

Exhibitions (selection)

King Kong Kunstkabinett has shown his work at numerous group exhibitions in Germany and Austria.

  • 2019 40 years of King Kong Art Cabinet , Gallery of Artists, Munich
  • 2015 Melange II , Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
  • 2015 a lot happened II , artothek Frankfurt
  • 2013 Much happened , Hans-Reiffenstuel-Haus, Pfarrkirchen (K 0 catalog)
  • 2012 Overview , Galerie Anais, Munich
  • 2009 Paul Bovée Gallery, Delèmont, CH
  • 2007 The first 30 years , Kallmannmuseum, Ismaning (K)
  • 2007 Miralago , Artothek, Munich
  • 2006 Chamber of Wonder , Apex Gallery, Göttingen
  • 2001 You and Your World , Art Association Carinthia (K)
  • 2000 Writing and Image in Motion , with Heribert Kuhn, Gasteig, Munich; Rathausgalerie, Munich (B)
  • 1999 From the King Kong Art Cabinet , Rathausgalerie, Munich and Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (K)
  • 1997 Heim und Welt , Städtische Galerie im Cordonhaus, Cham
  • 1996 Supervision → Intervision , Galerie Apex, Göttingen
  • 1995 Schönberger Gallery, Landshut (K)
  • 1995 Lichtspiele , artist workshop Lothringerstraße, Munich
  • 1995 Revised People , Association for Original Etching, Munich (K)
  • 1993 figure pictures , interim gallery, Munich (K)
  • 1990 Screwball II , Künstlerhaus Moussonturm, Frankfurt
  • 1989 Galerie Lutz Rohs, Düren (as well as 1992, 1995 and 1999)
  • 1987 Research artist on a journey through reality , Gasteig, Munich (K)
  • 1986 The painters who wanted to paint a sunset were late , endart-Galerie, Berlin; Apex Gallery, Göttingen
  • 1986 What is the red of hell really like? , waschSalon, Frankfurt
  • 1984 Image contexts ( painting experiment and exhibition together with the painting group WeibsBilder ), Kunstfabrik Lothringerstraße, Munich

literature

  • Walter Amann, Wolfgang Schikora, Ulrich Zierold: 40 years of the Kong Kong Art Cabinet , Gallery of Artists, BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria e. V., Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-945337-18-9
  • Transfusions artist book (with DVD: 19 short films ). King Kong Art Cabinet, Secessionsverlag Munich 2015
  • a lot happened catalog. Secessionsverlag Munich 2013
  • Discrete subversion . King Kong Art Cabinet. Walter Amann, Wolfgang Schikora, Ulrich Zierold, Wetzlar 2012, with a text by Frank Böckelmann
  • Kafka in Prague - standing assault . A virtual journey into Kafka's world , ed. by Heribert Kuhn and King Kong Kunstkabinett, CD-Rom, Munich 1997
  • King Kong Kunstkabinett, movables, signs, limitations , in: Mythos Metropole , ed. by Gotthard Fuchs, Bernhard Moltmann, Walter Prigge, Frankfurt 1995
  • Amann, Schikora, Zierold. King Kong Art Cabinet. Work in the Interstice of Media and Techniques II , Munich 1995
  • Walter Amann, Wolfgang Schikora, Ulrich Zierold. King Kong Art Cabinet. Black and white pictures, overworked people, literary thumbtacks , Munich 1994 with a foreword by Florian Rötzer
  • Amann, Schikora, Zierold. King Kong Art Cabinet. Work in the Interstice of Media and Techniques I , Munich 1993 with a foreword by Florian Rötzer
  • King Kong Kunstkabinett, Towards the Visible - 15 Capers in Pictures and Words , in: Critical Theory and Culture , ed. by Rainer Erd, Frankfurt 1989
  • Research artist on a journey through reality , King Kong Art Cabinet. Walter Amann, Wolfgang Schikora, Ulrich Zierold; Catalog book, Munich, 1987

Filmography (selection)

  • 2013 19 short films , DVD production, 45 min
  • 2000 Stop and Go , 16 mm color / tone, 14 min
  • 1994 War and Peace , 16 mm, color / sound, 9 min
  • 1991 gear , 16 mm, color / tone, 14 min
  • 1990 City on the river , 16 mm, color / sound, 7 min
  • 1989 Three speeds , 16 mm, color / tone, 6 min
  • 1989 Who wants to go on living as a corkscrew , 16 mm, color / tone, 5 min
  • 1987 general view , 16 mm, color / sound, 7 min
  • 1986 The wandering city - basement , 16 mm, color / tone, 14 min
  • 1984 Das Laboratorium , 16 mm blow up, color / tone, 50 min
  • 1981 Life in the stars is not dangerous , p. 8, color / tone, 15 min
  • 1981 An artificial greyhound , p. 8, color / sound, 12 min
  • 1980 Adventure in the South Seas , p. 8, 50 min .; 16 mm blow up, color / tone, 30 min
  • 1979 Yes, I would also like to take part in this fantastic journey , p. 8, color / tone, 22 min

Collections

Works by the group can be found in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung (Munich), the Art Museum Walter (Augsburg), the Niederreuther Foundation (Munich), the Artothek of the City of Munich , the Art Collection of the City of Pfarrkirchen and the Museum Synthesis in Hallbergmoos.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Group SPUR , ed. by Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker, Pia Dornacher, exhib.-cat. Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and others, Ostfildern 2006
  2. ↑ cf. Group WIR 1959-1965 , ed. by Zdenek Felix, exhib.-cat. Art Association Munich u. a., Munich 1987
  3. ↑ cf. BRAID Group. Work from 1965–1968 , ed. by Pia Dornacher, Lydia Hartel, Selima Niggl, exhib.-cat. Rathausgalerie Munich u. a., Munich 2007
  4. ↑ cf. Collective Herzogstrasse , ed. by Galerie van de Loo Projects, Munich 2012
  5. ↑ cf. From the utopia of a collective art , Kunstforum international, Vol. 116, Nov./Dec. 1991.
  6. ^ For all films see: Walter Amman, Wolfgang Schikora, Ulrich Zierold: 40 Years King Kong Art Cabinet , Gallery of Artists, BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria e. V., Munich 2019, p. 192

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