01/10 pop goes my world
by CX Huth
January 22 – March 27, 2010
Calling everything into question - not opposing everything.
Impressions of the exhibition >
This knowledge results from a mindful youth spent between the "salutary" official style of art promoted by Socialist Realism, and the artistic opposition, the "Berlin School", which developed back in the Sixties. Some of its most important representatives were CX Huth's teachers in the Eighties.
CX Huth has lived and worked in Berlin since 1983, since 1988 in one of the most inspiring quarters of the capital: Prenzlauer Berg. In his first seven years in Berlin the hungry CX Huth absorbs the teachings of Wolfgang Leber (painting and drawing) and Lothar Böhme (painting). Where everything has stayed the same as it was before the Fall of the Wall, where even the pavements are naturally grown pieces of art the talented CX Huth becomes an independent artistic personality.
Pop culture offers CX a way of expression all of his own. Through music (he plays the guitar and keyboard in an "industrial" band ), through painting and his texts. Pop Art means to him: no fear of "popular" means and media. That's why he prefers serigraphs, comics, reproductions of all kinds, which he continues to work on over and over again. He would appreciate seeing his creations , his pictures printed on T-shirts, soccer balls, drinking cups or toys. CX Huth, the collector of weird colourful pop music and tiny plastic items, writes, draws and paints stories on canvas, paper, printing plates, bath tubes, ... wants to surprise himself time and again.
Auxiliary material like tape, different papers with their different shades of white, signs of wear and tear and little accidents are welcome means of expression. His compositions of text and picture come to life, fill entire storybooks for adults telling stories which end as they begin, leave everything open and do not anticipate the individual course of things, simply letting them happen.
His messages often focus on the controversy between the changeable laws of culture made by men and the laws of nature which the human being can only use with respect, but never change.
Finally we have the opportunity to introduce CX Huth's friendly, symbolic Pop Art values to the Viennese public. An extraordinary and discreet plea for a pulsating and sustainable co-existance, since: All of us are allowed to, all of us should be as we are.