B & B

Ben Cottrell, Ben Kaufmann
Theresienstrasse 48, Munich
27.02 — 14.05
2020

Ben Kaufmann and Ben Cottrell started working together in Munich in 2006, Cottrell as an artist, Kaufmann in his position as a gallerist. Aside from his own artistic practice, at this point Ben Cottrell had already realized near to 100 exhibitions in weekly turns, together with Mariola Groener with whom he opened the project space Forever and a Day Büro in Berlin Kreuzberg. In this capacity he provided an early platform to positions later becoming power players on the art market.
Ben Kaufmann on the other side renounced his public artistic production when he opened his gallery, and shifted into a private practice.
The exhibition
B & B now shows works from this "stand by" production for the first time, as well as the photographic series Allen's Ladies from 2019. Shot in a depot, the series depicts the pornographic group of figures Garderobe, Tisch, Stuhl (1969) by Allen Jones, which is being represented apart from any public exhibition situation. Ben Cottrell however addresses the matter of the inner and the outer in his very own way, by using mystic portrayals especially of the female body, as seen in movies and magazines, as a starting point for his drawings and paintings. In his newest body of work Cottrell concentrates on these figures as they become abstract shapes and by doing so questions pop-cultural approaches to replication and availability.

Works

  • Ben Kaufmann

    o.T., 2009
    Sticker on paper
    29,7 x 21 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell & Ben Kaufmann

    B & B, Installation view at KNUSTxKUNZ+, 2020

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  • Ben Kaufmann

    I LIGHT UP, 2010
    Pen, sticker on invite on paper
    29,7 x 21 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell & Ben Kaufmann

    B & B, Installation view at KNUSTxKUNZ+, 2020

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  • Ben Cottrell

    Untitled (Red Girl), 2018
    Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Silk Baryta
    30 x 22,5 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell

    Untitled, 2017
    Ink on cream Arches paper
    34,6 x 26,6 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell

    Country Girl, 2012
    Oil, ink and paper on canvas
    44 x 33 cm

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  • Ben Kaufmann

    Allen's Ladies, 2020
    Analog hand print on Baryt paper
    19,5 x 29 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell & Ben Kaufmann

    B & B, Installation view at KNUSTxKUNZ+, 2020

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  • Ben Kaufmann

    Allen's Ladies, 2020
    Analog hand print on Baryt paper
    19,5 x 29 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell

    Canvas No. 19, 2019
    Mixed Media on canvas
    200 x 150 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell & Ben Kaufmann

    B & B, Installation view at KNUSTxKUNZ+, 2020

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  • Ben Cottrell

    Swarm Head, 2019
    Fineart print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl
    30 x 22,5 cm

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  • Ben Kaufmann

    Visitenkarte, 2008
    Pen on paper
    29,7 x 21 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell

    Untitled (Green Girl), 2018
    Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Silk Baryta
    30 x 22,5 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell

    Pin Up, 2020
    Fineart Print on Hahnemühle ArtPearl
    40 x 30 cm

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  • Ben Cottrell & Ben Kaufmann

    B & B, Installation view at KNUSTxKUNZ+, 2020

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