Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler offers a comprehensive overview of Rudolf Stingel`s versatile artistic practice
(Artdaily.org)

The Fondation Beyeler is devoting its summer exhibition 2019 to contemporary painter Rudolf Stingel (born in Merano in 1956, lives in New York and Merano). It presents Stingel’s major series of works of the past three decades, providing a comprehensive overview of his versatile artistic practice. The exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is the first major presentation of Rudolf Stingel’s work in Europe following his show at Palazzo Grassi in Venice (2013) and the first in Switzerland since the one staged by the Kunsthalle Zurich (1995). It stretches over the nine rooms of the Fondation Beyeler’s south wing and also temporarily includes the two rooms of Restaurant Berower Park. Conceived room by room, the exhibition curated by Udo Kittelmann in close collaboration with the artist does not follow a chronological order, focussing instead on the specific confrontation of individual artworks, whose selection and di