Edward Bekkerman - "Labyrinths of Love"
at Osthaus Museum Hagen -Making the invisible visible
17 September 2022 to 15 January 2023
Edward Bekkerman, Rights by ABA Gallery New York
Düsseldorf, 17 August 2022: The Osthaus Museum Hagen presents the first museum exhibition "Labyrinths of Love" by the American artist Edward Bekkerman. "Labyrinths of Love" features over 40 works ranging from Bekkerman's early mythical "Angels" and "Guardians" from the 1990s to his latest expressive series "Faces", "Victories", "Samurais" and "Labyrinths of Love".
Edward Bekkerman's works are characterised by figuration, expressive abstraction, themes of spirituality, universal truths and symbolism. New York journalist and author Phoebe Hoban, who has also written a biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, writes of the artist: "Edward Bekkerman has always focused on otherworldly entities: Angels, spirits, mythical, labyrinthine lovers, mystical figures that appear in dreams." "Edward Bekkerman's work plays with different levels of reality and consciousness, it hints at intermediate worlds," writes Prof. Dr. Irene Daum, science and culture journalist, in the foreword of the exhibition catalogue.
This is the first solo museum exhibition of Edward Bekkerman's work in Germany. For Dr Tayfun Belgin, museum director of the "Osthaus Museum Hagen, Edward Bekkermann's paintings have an "enigmatic dimension that inspires visitors to engage intensively, indeed, as it were, demands a discussion.".
Edward Bekkerman, Rights by ABA Gallery New York
Osthaus Museum Hagen ©Werner Hannappel
Biography:
Born in 1958, Edward Bekkerman studied at the Art Students League art school in New York, founded in 1875, where Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Man Ray, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Norman Rockwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella, among others, also studied. Edward Bekkerman's works are in the permanent collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Moscow MOMA and in many private and corporate collections worldwide.
Further information: www.edwardbekkermanart.com
