BRITTA RETTBERG

FAILED
oil, epoxy, acrylic, ink on shaped canvas
89 x 68 x 14 cm
© Caro Jost
SEX SELLS
acrylic, epoxy, print on shaped canvas
85 x 65 x 14 cm
© Caro Jost
NEED TO MEET
2020
epoxy,acrylic,collage,streetprint on canvas
200 x 140 x 4 cm
© Caro Jost
INVOICE PAINTING G.U.18. Dezember 1996
Epoxy, acrylic on shaped canvas on stretcher
86 x 64 x 16 cm
© Caro Jost
Concept artist Caro Jost appropriates found objects and traces of the past, which she transfers into abstract works of art using a technique she developed herself. The strategy of collecting and archiving is a central component of her artistic work. Jost transfers the material onto canvas and deconstructs its message by commenting, editing and alienating it. In doing so, she is concerned with the transfer of historical reality into the present. The artist has achieved great recognition for her development of the “Streetprint” image type, for which she creates actual street impressions of venues that have personal, social or art historical meaning. Whereas pamphlets are increasingly disappearing from our everyday lives, the urge for self-improvement revealed in the messages of these courses offered is more present than ever before. For the series of „Public Paintings“ the artist uses advertising flyers for evening classes that she collected in New York in 2001. In the series of „Invoice Paintings“ Jost uses printouts of original invoices, handwritten notes, or sketches from the archives of important artists of the 20th century avant-garde. In Jost’s view these items documenting the production progress and the purchases of paints and materials both register the near-time genesis of important artworks and are finds that function as means of creating artworks of her own.
Caro Jost (b. 1965 in Munich, Germany) lives and works in Munich and New York. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and the Art Students League, New York. Her works have been presented in various exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York, USA, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, DE, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, DE or Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, DE. She has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2020-21.
BRITTA RETTBERG is a gallery for contemporary art founded in 2017 in Munich’s Kunstareal. The gallery presents artists of the gallery and guests in six solo exhibitions as well as curated group exhibitions a year. BRITTA RETTBERG focuses on a broad spectrum of artistic approaches and represents an international program with an emphasis on emerging talents and mid-career artists.
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Britta von Rettberg
Concept artist Caro Jost appropriates found objects and traces of the past, which she transfers into abstract works of art using a technique she developed herself. The strategy of collecting and archiving is a central component of her artistic work. Jost transfers the material onto canvas and deconstructs its message by commenting, editing and alienating it. In doing so, she is concerned with the transfer of historical reality into the present. The artist has achieved great recognition for her development of the “Streetprint” image type, for which she creates actual street impressions of venues that have personal, social or art historical meaning. Whereas pamphlets are increasingly disappearing from our everyday lives, the urge for self-improvement revealed in the messages of these courses offered is more present than ever before. For the series of „Public Paintings“ the artist uses advertising flyers for evening classes that she collected in New York in 2001. In the series of „Invoice Paintings“ Jost uses printouts of original invoices, handwritten notes, or sketches from the archives of important artists of the 20th century avant-garde. In Jost’s view these items documenting the production progress and the purchases of paints and materials both register the near-time genesis of important artworks and are finds that function as means of creating artworks of her own.
Caro Jost (b. 1965 in Munich, Germany) lives and works in Munich and New York. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and the Art Students League, New York. Her works have been presented in various exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York, USA, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, DE, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, DE or Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, DE. She has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2020-21.
BRITTA RETTBERG is a gallery for contemporary art founded in 2017 in Munich’s Kunstareal. The gallery presents artists of the gallery and guests in six solo exhibitions as well as curated group exhibitions a year. BRITTA RETTBERG focuses on a broad spectrum of artistic approaches and represents an international program with an emphasis on emerging talents and mid-career artists.