Most comprehensive overview of Frank Bowling`s monumental paintings ever mounted opens at Haus der Kunst
(Artdaily.org)

Going back fifty years into Frank Bowling`s career, Haus der Kunst presents `Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi`, the most comprehensive overview of the artist`s monumental paintings ever on view. Born in Bartica, British Guiana, in 1934, Frank Bowling in the aftermath of World War II left his native country at the age of 19, arriving in London in 1953, as part of the momentous wave of Anglophone West Indian and Caribbean populations that migrated to England. Later he would study painting at The Slade School, and Royal College of Art, distinguishing himself - next to David Hockney - with the silver medal for painting in RCA`s 1962 graduating class. Starting in the mid-1960s, Bowling began to surpass the rigid geometries of the pictorial field. The decisive moment of Bowling`s artistic maturation was his move from London to New York in 1966. New York had produced postwar abstract painting of a certain scale and ambition. Bowling`s painter