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Opening: Thursday, July 10, 2025, 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

For over four decades, New York born and based artist Rochelle Feinstein (b.<\/em>\u00a01947, Bronx, NY) has mined the conventions of abstraction in the context of rapidly shifting cultural, political, and media landscapes by integrating a wide range of media\u2014including printmaking, photography, sculpture, collage, digital techniques, and everyday materials such as cardboard, tape, trolleys, and shopping bags.<\/p>\n

Feinstein is not a gestural painter in the traditional sense. Rather, she is fascinated by the painted gesture as a bearer of meaning within the vocabulary of abstraction. Her compositions emerge through complex, additive, and technologically mediated processes: UV printing, collages or digitized sketches that simulate painterly spontaneity. For Feinstein, painting becomes a critical tool to interweave image, language, and social conditions.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0The Today Show<\/em>, the Ludwig Forum Aachen\u2014in cooperation with the Secession in Vienna and Kunsthaus Glarus\u2014is presenting Rochelle Feinstein\u2019s first institutional solo exhibition in the Rhineland. Featuring around 30 large-scale new works, created primarily between 2021 and 2025, the exhibition offers profound insights into Feinstein\u2019s rigorous engagement with abstraction.<\/p>\n

The exhibition opens with the large-scale diptych\u00a0Tagged<\/em>\u00a0(2019), which features historical photographs of boxing matches held in Rome and Milan during the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s under Italian fascism. Feinstein reproduced the photographs as silkscreen prints, arranged them in filmstrip-like grids across the canvas, and painted additional grids in rainbow hues. The images document\u00a0 popular sporting events, yet they subtly allude to everyday social structures within a state of exception. The boxing match becomes a metaphor for ongoing conflict\u2014an allegory for Feinstein\u2019s own artistic practice\u2014which both draws on and disrupts the traditions of abstract painting.<\/p>\n

In the centre of the exhibition is a group of paintings created in 2024 using layered and combined techniques. While working on them, Feinstein serendipitously encountered the collage series\u00a0Eleven Ways to Use the Words to See<\/em>\u00a0(1976\/77) by New York painter Lee Krasner (1908\u20131984). Krasner\u2019s series exemplifies her method of \u201crecycling\u201d: repurposing and reworking her own earlier artworks, titled after verb tenses and grammatical modes. In Present Perfect<\/em>, Present Continuous<\/em>, Simple Present,<\/em> and Present Conditional (LK), <\/em>for instance, Feinstein has echoed this approach by combining painted canvases with collaged screen printed fragments on muslin, which are, in turn, based on ink brushstrokes made on composition paper. Both in dialogue with Krasner and grounded in a deep engagement with the present\u2014reflected in the exhibition\u2019s title\u00a0The Today Show<\/em>\u2014these paintings translate various present tenses into visual abstractions.<\/p>\n

The site-specific installation\u00a0Curtains<\/em>\u00a0(2025), produced especially for the Ludwig Forum, further explores this logic. Here, brushstrokes in Feinstein\u2019s characteristic rainbow spectrum, a recurring element since 2017, are repeated as patterns printed on fabric. Hung in the form of a curtain, the work guides visitors through the exhibition while simultaneously marking its end.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0The Today Show<\/em>, Feinstein is bringing her full range of painterly gestures and artistic strategies, developed across different series and projects, together for the first time. Techniques previously deployed in specific contexts\u2014such as the rainbow palette, painterly gestures mediated through collage and screen print, the grid, or the use of photographic imagery\u2014are now interwoven in a comprehensive and cohesive manner.<\/p>\n

The exhibition captures Feinstein\u2019s multilayered techniques and material combinations as snapshots of the present moment. Her work, she suggests, is \u201c\u2026as much about painting as it is about the social and political upheaval we\u2019re living through.” Feinstein activates abstraction as a relational field: her works consistently emerge in an ever evolving present of politics, pop culture, and art history. “My work is not a placebo for trauma, self-care, or healing, nor does it offer illusionistic space\u2014I leave that to others. My hope is to open up a space for reflection on the current state of culture, conveyed through the language of painting.” The title\u00a0The Today Show<\/em>\u00a0not only alludes, with irony, to the popular US morning infotainment show, but also critiques the increasing collapse of news and entertainment\u2014a phenomenon Feinstein addresses via artistic means.<\/p>\n

The Today Show <\/em>marks the conclusion of a multipart exhibition cycle at the Ludwig Forum Aachen dedicated to abstract painting. It began in 2023 with Ulrike M\u00fcller\u2019s\u00a0Monument to My Paper <\/em>Body<\/em>\u00a0(whose wall paintings remain on view) and continues with Amy Sillman\u2019s\u00a0Oh, Clock!<\/em>\u00a0(on view through August 31, 2025).<\/p>\n

Curated by Eva Birkenstock
\nCuratorial assistance: Miriam Schmidt<\/p>\n

Credits: Rochelle Feinstein, ROYGBIV (Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain)<\/em>, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n

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Download Exhibition Booklet (PDF)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","excerpt":"

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