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04/12/2008

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Baier, Uta

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Die Welt - Germany | 14/12/2007

The Church and contemporary artists

Neo Rauch, Leipzig's most famous artist, has drawn up designs for three windows for Naumburg Cathedral. Uta Baier comments on the new alliance between contemporary artists and the Church: "Like the church leaders of the Gothic period and the Renaissance, the churches are no longer afraid of contemporary art. The difference is that today's artists no longer make their living from the churches; on the contrary, it's the churches that live from the artists. The residents of Naumburg paid nothing for the designs; they wouldn't have had the money to do so anyway. Neo Rauch gave the church his designs for free, just as the painter Gerhard Richter created the window of Cologne Cathedral in for free. Rauch is even contemplating donating money for the realisation of the project. Apparently it's an honour once more to work for the Church, perhaps among other things because the Church's promises of eternity are more reliable than those of museums, even if the Church is not always satisfied with the artists."

Die Welt - Germany | 05/05/2006

Caspar David Friedrich-Schau in Essen

Uta Baier went to see the Caspar David Friedrich exhibition in Essen and comments: "In the same way that Friedrich's figures observe and understand nature, the people of today are to see themselves within nature: exposed to its power, feeling small, with pending disaster around the next corner and a quiet suspicion of their own transience. It's not for nothing that people who immigrate to Germany are supposed to know which landscape Caspar David Friedrich painted on the German island of Rügen..." Baier takes a critical view of the concept underlying the exhibition: The exhibition "shows by means of his drawings how Friedrich studied and sketched trees, grass, clothes and veils, ships and rocks before he featured them in his pictures, but it doesn't explain anything... The ideas and concept were banished to the relative obscurity of leaflets and the exhibition's catalogue. The visitor is sent out on a viewing of countless pictures without the aid of texts, chapter headings or quotes."

Die Welt - Germany | 24/02/2006

Documenta 2007

"Never before has this been done so early", remarks Uta Baier after a press conference at which Roger M. Buergel, director of the 2007 international art exhibition "Documenta" in Kassel and his curator Ruth Noack announced the first names on the list of artists whose works will be shown in the exhibition. The names were Ferran Adria, Ricardo Basbaum, Imogen Stidworthy and Artur Zmijewski. "So it looks like it's somehow going to be about tradition, vulnerability, the joy of life and education," writes Baier. She adds: "The Spanish star cook, Ferran Adria, fits in perfectly here. Most people describe him as the most exciting, creative and craziest cook in the world... Buergel refuses to be drawn into the 'boring question' of whether cookery is an art form saying: 'After all, we can all agree that not every oil painting is a work of art.'"

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