The South Westphalian University town of Siegen, presented in 1999, a special art event:
Paul McCartney in the Studio with Paul McCARTNEY paintings is the world premiere of a painterly Oeuvre. Paul McCartney (born. In 1942, in Liverpool), from his youth in a passionate draughtsman, not only as a musician but also as a visual artist with an exceptional Talent and has been collecting since the Beatles time art. Since 1983, he works in his Studio in the South of England and the USA intensively with painting.
His work is influenced among other things by the free painterly gesture, certain, color, and emotion strong art of abstract expressionism, whose main representative, Willem de Kooning, McCartney knew personally. In addition, the work of the English painter of the Pop is affected-art and surrealism. Decisive for the content of multi-layered and visually consistent work of Paul McCartney, but the openness with which he responded to landscapes, light, or other visual sensory stimuli and how it enabled internal image inventories.
Wolfgang Suttner, cultural officer of the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein with years of experience as an exhibition-maker, got five years ago, contact with the artistic double talents McCartney. While many Studio visits, he sighted together with the artist in the sculptural work. The exhibition in the art forum Lÿz was born in Siegen, the from 1. May up to 25. July 1999, on 900 m2 of 70 of the best Work from McCartney’s pictorially and thematically, shows a highly interesting work.
The exhibition presents, in addition to the images original photos by Linda McCartney as a visual introduction to the work and sources of inspiration of the artist and the video-installation ‘feedback’, designed by the Paul McCartney, the monitor sculptures.
A catalogue of the exhibition with approximately 80 color illustrations and 20 b/w photos by Linda McCartney appears. Informative texts by Brian Clarke, Barry Miles (London), Wolfgang Suttner (exhibition curator) and Christoph Tannert (Berlin) will accompany the first published images and photographs as well as detailed excerpts from exclusive interviews in which Paul McCartney talks about his art.
The name of Paul McCartney, they do not speak in Victories already for a long time. “PMC” is the name of it just yet. This is meant for business, a little bit of awesome as it sounds. PMC brings the South Westphalian circle city, the media event in its history. Already 272 newspaper reports, in the culture of the city has counted them exactly, have appeared since the first press conference in early March. 400 journalists are expected, if the Star on 30. April will personally open the exhibition. The has not seen the world: Oil and acrylic paintings by Paul McCartney.
Here, Wolfgang Suttner, head of the cultural Department is trying to smother any hint of the cult of the star to the Ex-Beatle in the Bud. Again and again he stresses the seriousness of McCartney as a painter, praises its “polyästhe table” Talent, the “communicative use of color and composition processes”. Finally, he brought the world star in this way to Siegen: by taking him as an artist seriously.
At the beginning of the nineties, it was, Suttner visited with his daughter, a McCartney-concert in Dortmund, when he read in an Interview, the musician keep a whole bunch of pictures in his basement. Own images, the real McCartney! Suttner, a trained art teacher, professional author and a member of the German arts Council, wrote a letter. It is an invitation to England, a first Meeting and many more followed. To not freeze up in front of reverence, is reported by Suttner, he is talking about McCartney first with “Mr. Miller”. Image for image, he had a discussion with the artist, experts from England and Germany Rate and much sorted out until after five years, those 75 paintings were left to say both “Yes”. Then, finally, it was to the extent: McCartney is also “Yes said” to win as an exhibition venue.
Win. 100 000 inhabitants in the upper center of the Region between Hagen and casting, a steel city in crisis. This is not the place for the debut of a painter who fills in as a musician in New York and London halls. But, says Suttner, McCartney a Feedback to his pictures, which would have seen up to now only his family and friends. The painter should not be the focus, not the painting of Ex-Beatle, as it is in London or New York this would happen, just. Prefer something deeper hanged: Siegen – since no one comes up with the idea, and the Exhibitor wants to compete with the Big names in the contemporary art.
Wolfgang Suttner is now working on the quadrature of the circle: advertising worldwide, in all media, he is the Siegenern guilty – but not with the trademark “Beatle”, but for a yet unknown painter by the name of Paul McCartney. 1.4 million Mark the exhibition costs 600 000 Mark takes Suttner from pots to the promotion of economic development. Siegen is hoping for an image that will pay off later on the arduous path of structural change in kind of hard cash. “The second benefit for the Region,” says Suttner.
Not all Victories are convinced; in the local newspaper, a business man, “that so much money is being spent for one of the richest men in England”.
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For the exhibition team of the office of culture, meanwhile, a relentless Countdown has begun. Only slowly becomes clear, on what has since admitted: The circle of the League kickers suddenly have to play in a world selection. Because PMC does not remember to make the smaller Partner concessions. Be unknown painter, acknowledges the Suttner meanwhile, “behaves like a pop star”. For the reproduction of the images in the exhibition catalogue, experts had to fly several times to England, in order to determine on the basis of the original, the exact tonal values on the color scale.
In the case of a video installation McCartney is on a high special illumination, to find for the nationwide no appropriate lamps. A company from Lüdenscheid to design the spotlight now and produce. However, because McCartney’s production company MPL reserves the final check for everything that happens in Siegen, it is first sent a prototype to England, and there to be found, before the production can start. The British prove to be a difficult negotiating partner. “We hold ourselves to contracts in which the spoken word is often,” moans an employee of Suttner’s.
30. April wants to open up a PMC of his exhibition. 900 square meters of exhibition space must be ready by then. Now the culture house is rebuilt, otherwise only small art events are held. The approval procedures take months to complete, manages the municipal administration now in a few days. “Finally, you seem to grasp what it’s about,” says one of the managers.
Of Wins from McCartney wants to move, if all goes well, with his exhibition, perhaps, to Japan and America. What are the prospects: Siegen, Tokyo, New York, once, in the correct order.
Sources : http://gernhardt.com/macca/9904/index.html
