Robi Gottlieb-Cahen
Artist
Although Robi Gottlieb-Cahen has been creating paintings and drawings since the age of seven, he was reborn at forty after destroying all previous work to start from scratch. His artistic venture is distinct in part by his process of layering and unveiling, using inks and acids. These steps in his practice ultimately uncover beauty within imperfection, often working within the themes of sexuality, memory, and death.
As an artist born after the second world war, his work grapples with the Shoah. He simultaneously processes transgenerational trauma through painting imagined portraits of ancestors and elicits a specific kind of resilience within himself – “In my work, I choose life over death, and memory over absence.”
The scratches he places on his artwork often gives the viewer a sense of damage, ruin even – doubtless both personal and historical – but one that, as you take a step back, does not diminish the beauty of the face that looks back at you. The detailed scratches’ sense of ruin contributes to the sad beauty of the whole.
Robi Gottlieb-Cahen lives and works in Echternach and Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. When he isn’t creating art, he jogs around his neighborhood lake to catch sunrise hues with his dog Perla.
Robi Gottlieb-Cahen
Artist
Although Robi Gottlieb-Cahen has been creating paintings and drawings since the age of seven, he was reborn at forty after destroying all previous work to start from scratch. His artistic venture is distinct in part by his process of layering and unveiling, using inks and acids. These steps in his practice ultimately uncover beauty within imperfection, often working within the themes of sexuality, memory, and death.
As an artist born after the second world war, his work grapples with the Shoah. He simultaneously processes transgenerational trauma through painting imagined portraits of ancestors and elicits a specific kind of resilience within himself – “In my work, I choose life over death, and memory over absence.”
The scratches he places on his artwork often gives the viewer a sense of damage, ruin even – doubtless both personal and historical – but one that, as you take a step back, does not diminish the beauty of the face that looks back at you. The detailed scratches’ sense of ruin contributes to the sad beauty of the whole.
Robi Gottlieb-Cahen lives and works in Echternach and Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. When he isn’t creating art, he jogs around his neighborhood lake to catch sunrise hues with his dog Perla.
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METAmorphosis / OGR AwardMay 17, 2023Launched during the 2022 edition of Artissima, the METAmorphosis project is the second episode of Beyond Production – a conceptual platform born from the collaboration between Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Artissima, in dialogue with the OGR Award, with the aim of stimulating and promoting reflections on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. (more…)
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Roger Ballen: Call of the VoidApr 19 – Oct 29, 2023Roger Ballen: Call of the Void is the eighth in a series of exhibitions at Museum Tinguely under the title Danse macabre with works responding to Jean Tinguely’s late work Mengele – Dance of Death, shown in direct proximity to it. (more…)
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Julie van der Vaart / Blind SpotPublicationBlind Spot by artist Julie van der Vaart is a poetic exploration of the concepts of imaginary time and deep time. Photographs of the human body, caves and water(falls) are choreographed into disorientating sequences to reveal correlations between images. (more…)
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MeaningAug 26 – Dec 3, 2023Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum is delighted to open a new exhibition Meaning. Meaning has been inspired by our recent experience. In the past three years, travel almost came to a complete stop. The network of art that emerged in the happy era of globalization has been put to test by physical and ideological barriers, yet it still maintains good faith and conveys news from other parts of art world to us. (more…)
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Franz Erhard Walther / Kienzle Art FoundationJun 3 – Dec 3, 2023The German artist Franz Erhard Walther is one of the key figures of a concept of art based on participation. Born in Fulda in 1939, his work in the postwar years began with Informel painting: “Piece by piece I understood that the term ‘Informel’ only made sense if one related that to the absence of the concept of composition. (more…)
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Robert Barry, Joseph Kosuth, Julian Schnabel & Lawrence WeinerJun 20 – Sep 30, 2023Giorgio Persano is delighted to present a selection of important works by great contemporary masters in the spaces of the gallery’s inner garden: Robert Barry, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner, who are among the main exponents and theorisers of conceptual art, and Julian Schnabel, (more…)
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Dorothea LangePhotographerBorn Dorothea Nutzhorn on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange had a difficult childhood, contracting polio when she was seven. The illness left her right leg and foot weakened and she walked with a noticeable limp for the rest of her life. (more…)
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Leiko Ikemura: Motion Of LoveJun 24 – Sep 24, 2023Motion of Love is Leiko Ikemura’s first institutional solo exhibition in the Netherlands and presents a body of work, which collectively reflects the artist’s engagement with material, poetry and notions of space. The exhibition takes its title from the artist’s experience that in essence we are all connected. Expanding on this sentiment, Leiko Ikemura creates her own universe, (more…)
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Marina AbramovićSep 23, 2023 – Jan 1, 2024An art world icon and a performance art pioneer – Marina Abramović has captivated audiences by pushing the limits of her body and mind, for the past 50 years. Marina Abramović Hon RA has earned worldwide acclaim as a performance artist. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work, subjecting herself to exhaustion, pain and even the possibility of death. (more…)
