Munich 2022

 Hi,

I haven't done a blog posting since my trip to London right before the Covid shut down in March 2020 but here I am going on a trip to Munich and it occurred to me that maybe this would be another good time to do one. 

I left Friday night July 1, 2022, at 9:30 pm. It is a perfect time to jump on the plane and fall asleep.  I will get to Munich late afternoon on Saturday and check into the Charles Hotel. 

Now it is Sunday morning in Munich. This is right before sunrise at 5:07 am. Their sunrise is earlier than ours and their sunset later. Long days.

The Charles

View from my room

Today I am pretty tired and spent a lot of the day trying to keep myself awake which meant eating and having lattes a lot. I also went for a swim in the hotel's great pool and then I took a walk over to the Pinakothek der Moderne to view the Cecily Brown show and the new installation at the Danner Rotunda where the jewelry collection is stored. Much to my surprise, there was also a show of jewelry at the very beginning of the Design section of the museum instead of being hidden away in the basement which is the location of the Danner Collection.

Pinakothek der Moderne

Unexpected jewelry show at the museum

Can you find the Kiff Slemmons? How about Kranitsky and Overstreet?

Can you find the Keith Lewis?

Iris Eichenberg- Susan Beech award winner

The Danner Collection is hidden away in a basement space that is hard to find. It is a rats maze of hallways and turns and walks through a lot of design exhibits which are all very interesting but it is a destination venue - a place you want to find. But once there you are rewarded with some great pieces of jewelry. Every few years the collection is refocused and rearranged by a different group of curators. This year it was Hans Stofer from Halle Germany and Mikiko Minewaki from Tokyo who chose the work and arranged it.

Hans Stofer has a funny sense of humor

I like Cecily Brown's work in a way. It is very chaotic and in the chaos, you can see things if you look long enough. I love that this show was based on works she saw from historical painters like Franz Marc, Brugel, and Bosch and then did her interpretations.

After Bosch and Brugel 2017

Canopy 2003/2004

This is the original Franz Marc that Cecily Brown based the following paintings

I love the frenzy of it all. The paintings really carry an energy. These were small paintings - maybe 18 by 22 inches or so.

At dinner I saw Marie Jose van den Hout, owner of the Marzee Gallery where I like to spend my time and her son Michiel and some friends who came to help set up. She looked well but her cough is always scary. Earlier in the day I bumped into Felix Flury who is the owner of Gallery SO in Switzerland. He wasn't in Munich for Schmuck but through a series of circumstances ended up there. I love what he shows too. He is a lovely man as well.

Well, I think that is it. Tomorrow I will see Otto Kunzli and I'll give you an update then. 

Until then... That's all Folks.

Hugs