Starting on 11th of april Rüdiger Glatz aka ruedione will show hos exhibition "flashbacks" at pretty portal.
"Flashbacks" includes athmosperic photography, that shows graffiti artists in the creative process.
Besides his work as an artist, Rüdiger Glatz is one of the founders of the montana scholarship.
The scholarship program is dedicated to graffiti artists who have managed to break down the barrier between the street and the white cube.
Rüdiger Glatz, Montana and Pretty Portal decided to cooperate intensely, and open spaces for graffiti artists who are willing to enter the gallery space. In this year the two participants of the scholarship, smash 137 ( 16.5.- 20.6.) and Stephan Strumbel (24.10. - 21.11.)will show their works at pretty portal.
excerpt from the montana scholarship concept:
During the last decade the art world has witnessed a positive resurgence of practices once considered exclusive to a world of individualist propaganda, social commentary and outright, deliberate visual anarchy. Not to say that any of this has changed, but where is it going? The inclusion of the idea of the ‘contemporary gallery space’ in the Graffiti scene puts new players, a new audience, and new concerns on the table. If the art world was always intended to represent, at it’s best, the sign of our times and the social mood of our civilizations, it has now found itself confronting a new level of controversy with the contemporary Graffiti scene at its door step, and slowly creeping in. It is no secret that Art, within the public and private sphere has always been and continues to be a loaded gun. This is one of the first points of entry for Graffiti writers into recent art discourses, for they have more than questioned the extent of access to both, and continue to challenge our definitions of boundaries at the risk of being silenced. Despite being rejected, censored, and criminalized for their evasive declarations and subversive behavior, these artists continue to maintain a united sense of rebellion. The position that Montana intends to investigate with its scholarship program this year, is the extent to which a street based practice can challenge and achieve new levels of social defiance from within the confines of an established aesthetic space. To maintain an anti-authoritarian position, as well as territorialize a new space within this context will be the main challenge for Montana’s chosen participants. This project is sponsored in collaboration with cyworld.de, an internet sight which provides international networks for artists.
