Ruttkowski;68

Courtesy Ruttkowski;68 Ruttkowski;68 presents The Quality of Painting (Die Qualität der Malerei) , an exhibition curated by Georg Imdahl bringing together works by Alex Wissel (b. 1983, DE), Carolin Eidner (b. 1984, DE), and Finn Froböse (b. 1997, DE). Must painting, to draw attention to itself, still proclaim its own death, its eternal end? Must it reach “transitively” beyond the picture frame into the room, then stand beside itself (David Joselit) and belong to a particular network in order to convince? Does it need, in the context of western art (Westkunst) and beyond, a fitting image, a…