This September, Modern Art Oxford presents Friedrich Kunath's first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery in which four new paintings and a number of new sculptures will be shown alongside recent works, including the film You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Crazy (2012).
With an exhibition title that references Raymond Moody, American psychologist and best-selling author of Life after Life (1975), and British 1960s rock band The Moody Blues, Kunath draws on myriad inspirations and sources in a playful discourse between melancholy and joy, which asserts the triumph of life over death, something Kunath often refers to as “sad optimism”.
[Right: You Owe Me A Feeling, 2012
Friedrich Kunath
Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe.
Photographs: Michael Schmelling]