«Ars Memoriae» by Aude de Kerros
Dear friends, dear art lovers,
You are kindly invited to the exhibition opening «Ars Memoriae» by Aude de Kerros in InteriorDAsein/Berlin.
Aude de Kerros is Paris based engraver, painter, essayist and critic.
Opening event of the exhibition at Friday May 25th from 19.00 till 23.00.
Closing event at Sunday June 3d from 17.00 till 21.00
The exhibition is open on May 26th and May 27th from 14.00 till 20.00 and by
appointment under +49 (0) 1795475312
Adress: Steegerstrasse 2, 13359 Berlin
Public transportation: Bus M27, 255 or S-Bhn «Wollankstrasse»
Aude de Kerros was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies on 24th of December 1947, into a family of sailors, artists and jurists.
In 1914, Aude de Kerros’s grandfather was a young Navy officer on a two year mission in China. His gunboat was stationed on the Yangtze River. After completing his service, he asked to return to France on his own. He took this opportunity to discover China and
Japan. Permission was granted. On his way home he boarded the legendary Trans-Siberian railroad in Vladivostok to cross the continent going to Moscow. From there he took another train to Paris. When the war was declared, the changing game of alliances shut borders one after another. They all closed behind him as his train, the last train, raced toward France. He arrived
in Paris and immediately went to fight World War I.
In June 1940, her father left France and joined Charles De Gaulle’s France Libre (Free France). From Naval School in Dartmouth, he went on to fight in the Battle of the Atlantic. After the World War II, he became a diplomat and took his family on diplomatic assignments to Asia, South America, Israel and the Middle East. Aude’s childhood and adolescence were marked by travel.
Following the family tradition of adventure and seeking of truth and liberty, Aude de Kerros participated in the legendary demonstrations of 1968 in Paris. Today, she continues this tradition with her research and numerous international appearances and has become legendary for her courageous research into contemporary culture in France and the world. Her many articles were published in leading French publications, such as «Le Monde», «Figaro» and others. She is also the author of numerous books on the subject.
Her monthly program on «Radio Courtoisie» is devoted to arts and culture. The Parisian Salon of Aude de Kerros, attracts artists, writers and thinkers who love the arts from all over the world.
Education
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris:
• Diploma – 1969
• Master of Law – 1972
Engraving ateliers of:
Henri Goetz, S.W. Hayter and Johnny Friedlaender
Art Oeuvre
• After her university studies, Aude de Kerros chose engraving as her main focus. Her engravings comprise a corpus of five hundred etchings, in nine cycles. All are bound by the same search for form and meaning.
• Aude de Kerros has also an important body of work in painting. Her preferred media is oil on canvas.
• More than eighty exhibitions in France and Europe – in Berlin, Munich, Mainz, Rome, Genoa, London and Warsaw. Invited scholarship at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in 1984. Her last exhibition in Germany was 2003 at the “Deutsch-Französische Kulturstiftung“ in Berlin.
Criticism & Publications
Her intense participation in French artistic life made her a keen observer of the great metamorphosis of art in recent decades.
She recorded key points of her observation in many articles and essays and books, including:
• Hidden Art – Dissidents of Contemporary Art,
Eyrolles, 2007, re-released in 2013
• Sacred Contemporary Art – Bishops, Inspectors and Commissars,
Jean Cyril Godefroy, 2012
• Art or Hoax? Eight Essays,
French/English publication of essays on art by 8 French Intellectuals
(In Russian) Russky Mir, 2012
https://www.labirint.ru/books/
• 1983-2013, The Black Years of Painting – Killed by Bureaucracy,
Pierre Guillaume de Roux, 2013
• The Sham of Contemporary Art – A Financial Utopia,
Eyrolles, 2015
https://www.eyrolles.com/Chapi
Links
In French:
http://www.audedekerros.fr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
InteriorDAsein, located in the borough of Wedding in Berlin, is managed by Archi Galentz as an artist-run space and operates since 2008 as an independent civil-society platform facilitating intercultural conversation. An integrated studio enables realization of art projects without outside financing.
See www.InteriorDAsein.de for more detailed information
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