Auto-Paragone

Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present a thematic group exhibition featuring five artists from the gallery's roster at this year's Gallery Weekend Berlin. Under the title **_Auto-Paragone_**, Tamina Amadyar, Thomas Helbig, Andy Hope 1930, Hinako Miyabayashi, and Markus Selg each showcase one painterly and one sculptural work in correlation. The term _Paragone_, as it appears in the exhibition title, comes from Italian and refers to the so-called competition of the arts, the struggle between painting and sculpture for supposed primacy among the disciplines, which was carried out with verve primarily during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Today, now that the former issue of conviction has long since disappeared from the agenda of art discourse, it is remarkable to observe that the majority of trained painters at some point in the course of their artistic development also become involved in sculpture and, as a result, usually work in both media in parallel, which were once so fiercely competitive — something that, incidentally, rarely occurs in reverse among sculptors. The exhibition _Auto-Paragone_ examines the phenomenon described above by juxtaposing selected works by artists represented by the gallery who have a correspondingly multidisciplinary practice.