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The term “gray area” speaks to a condition of indeterminacy, a liminal state in which something is not clearly defined or perhaps impossible to define. Julie Mehretu adapts such enigmatic circumstances as a tool to engage the viewer in her complex compositions of meticulously drawn mechanical renderings, spontaneous gestural markings, and colorful interjections. The images seem too exist at a horizon where the work could either plunge into dense obscurity or nearly disappear into an ethereal cloud of dust. Yet a remarkable sense of pictorial space always exists in Mehretu’s paintings, created not just by their layering but also by the contrasts inherent in them. What appears abstract from afar is replete with detailed drawing when viewed close up, but just as one is able to glean some bit of information by which a rendering might be identified, it vaporizes into an indefinability that compels the viewer to look again and again and again.
Berlin plays a significant role in Mehretu's investigation of memory and the urban experience in this suite of paintings, the fifteenth project in Deutsche Guggenheim’s acclaimed series of commissions. Asking what it has meant to be an American artist in Germany during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of the Bush years, Mehretu's canvases meditate on the idea of the modern ruin.
Julie Mehretu
Berliner Plätze, 2008-09
© Julie Mehretu
Curator
Joan Young
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Location
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin
Opening hours
Daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Including Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP and Deutsche Guggenheim CAFE
Christmas Holidays
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open on 31.12. until 4 p.m.
and on 01.01 from 2 p.m.
Admission
| Adults | | € 4 |
| reduced | | € 3 |
| Children under 12 | | Admission free |
| School classes | | Admission free |
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| Groups up to 20 | | € 35 |
| Family Card | | € 8 |
| Mondays | | Admission free |
Catalogue and Edition
The catalog Julie Mehretu: Grey Area (German and English, € 29) is published in conjunction with the show.
The Edition No. 49 for the Deutsche Guggenheim is Julie Mehretu: untitled (Grey Area), 2009. The graphic print is published in a limited and signed edition of 40 copies + 15 AP and exclusively available for € 900 at the Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP, (030) 20 20 93 -15 / -16.
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Public transport to the exhibition
Subway: Stadtmitte (U2) and Französische Straße (U6)
S-Bahn: Brandenburger Tor (S1, S2), Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75)
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