Untitled Document

ANNA SOMMER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ANNA SOMMER
Drawing Collages
March 20 - April 26, 2008

Adam Baumgold Gallery presents the first U.S. solo exhibition of Zurich based artist Anna Sommer from March 20 through April 26, 2008. Using a cut paper method mixed with drawing techniques, Sommer creates vivid and darkly funny tableaux.

The exhibition will include the series “Saturday Night,” 2007 - an eight page story on a recurrent Sommer theme - playful relationships where one partner strays and is discovered by the other partner in a humorous, turnabout, fair play scenario. Another story, “The Lumberjack’s Widow,” 2008 is a fairy tale battle of the sexes. In addition, there are a number of anthropomorphized animal collages, with animals couple dressed up as people and acting with all the silliness of their human counterparts.

Featured in the exhibition will be the entire series of collages from Anna Sommer’s book “Honigmond” (Honeymoon), 1998 - a very sad tale of a wedding and marriage of promise that concludes in a devastatingly tragic way. Also included will be the artist’s “naughty” ink on paper drawings of sexual situations that are as pecular and touching as they are witty and humorous.

Anna Sommer was born in Aarau, Switzerland in 1968. Her collages and drawings have been exhibited worldwide and her work was recently included in the exhibition “Toy Comix” at The Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. She has been featured in many comics such as “Strapazin,” “Lapin,” “Vibrations” and others. Sommer was included in the exhibition “Telling Tales: Contemporary Women Cartoonists,” curated by Dan Nadel in 2006 at the gallery. Sommer’s collage books include “Damen Dramen” (Day Dreaming), 1996, “Honigmond,” 1998, “Amourettes,” 2002, and “Portrait d’Ari la Nuit,” among others.

The gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 to 5:30 P.M. For additional information, please contact Adam Baumgold at (212)861-7338, or at abaumgold@aol.com.

"Birds," 2007 Collage drawing 10 1/4" X 8 1/4"	"Dogs," 2007 Collage drawing 15 3/4" X 11 3/4"
"Dessous," 2007 Collage drawing 15 3/4" X 11 3/4"	"Checkmate," 2007 Collage drawing 15 3/4" X 11 3/4"
"Dance," 2007 Collage drawing 15 3/4" X 11 3/4"	"Spaghetti," 2007 Collage drawing 16 1/2" X 11 3/4"
"Flautist," 2007 Collage drawing 12 3/4" X 9 3/4"	"Comforter," 2007 Collage drawing 15 3/4" X 11 3/4"

"The Lumberjack's Widow," 2007
Collage drawings, 1 of 2
27 1/2" X 19 5/8"

"The Lumberjack's Widow," 2007
Collage drawings, 2 of 2
27 1/2" X 19 5/8"

"Saturday Night," 2007
Collage drawings
8 pages, 11 3/4" X 15 3/4" each

"Taboo," 2007
Collage drawing, 1 of 3
15 3/4" X 11 3/4"

"Taboo," 2007
Collage drawing, 2 of 3
15 3/4" X 11 3/4"

"Taboo," 2007
Collage drawing, 3 of 3
15 3/4" X 11 3/4"

"Sigmund Freud," 2006 Collage on paper, 1 of 4 11 3/4" x 14 3/4"	"Sigmund Freud," 2006 Collage on paper, 2 of 4 11 3/4" x 14 3/4"
"Sigmund Freud," 2006 Collage on paper, 3 of 4 11 3/4" x 14 3/4"	"Sigmund Freud," 2006 Collage on paper, 4 of 4 11 3/4" x 14 3/4"

"Ari," 2007
Collage drawing
15 3/4" X 11 3/4"

"Ari," 2007
Collage drawing
11 3/4" X 15 3/4"

"Wintertime," 2007
Collage drawing
17 1/8" X 12"

"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 1+2 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"	"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 3+4 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"
"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 5+6 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"	"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 7+8 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"
"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 9+10 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"	"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 11+12 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"
"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 13+14 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"	"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 15+16 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"
"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 17+18 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"	"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 19+20 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"
"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 21+22 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"	"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 23+24 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"
"Honigmond (Honeymoon),"1998 Collage drawing, 25+26 of 26 9 7/8" X 10 1/8"

Untitled (Couples) Ink on paper 11 5/8" X 16 1/2"	Untitled (Couples) Ink on paper 11 5/8" X 16 1/2"
Untitled (Couples) Ink on paper 11 5/8" X 16 1/2"

Untitled (At the Beach)
Ink on paper
11 5/8" X 16 1/2"

Untitled
Ink on paper, 1 of 3
16 1/2" x 11 5/8"

Untitled
Ink on paper, 2 of 3
16 1/2" x 11 5/8"

Untitled
Ink on paper, 3 of 3
16 1/2" x 11 5/8"

Berufsbegattungen
Ink on paper
16 1/2" x 11 5/8"

Anna Sommer
1968 born in Aarau, Switzerland
lives and works in Zürich

This is her first solo exhibiton in the United States.

Publications of illustrations and comics:
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, das Magazin, Du, WoZ, Die Zeit, Vibrations,
Strapazin, Lapin, France, L'imbécile de Paris, France, Libération, France, Le cheval sans Tête, France

Single and groups-exhibitions:
Toy Comics: The Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, 2007 - 2008
Telling Tales: Contemporary Woman Cartoonists: Adam Baumgold Gallery, September 6 - October 14, 2006
Zürich, Genf, Luzern, Lausanne, Paris, Angoulême, Bastia, Düsseldorf,
Frankfurt, Helsinki, Athen, Turin, Johannesburg, Kawasaki

Publications;
1996 Damen Dramen, Arrache Coeur, Zürich, Switzerland
1998 Honigmond, Arrache Coeur, Zürich, Switzerland
1999 Rêves de Bunker Hill (Dreams from Bunker Hill) from John Fante, illustrated novel, Editions Demoures, Genf, Switzerland
2002 Amourettes, Buchet Chastel, Paris, France
2002 Baies des Bois, United Dead Artists, Paris, France
2002 Im Land der Liebe (In Loveland) from Gilbert Sorrentino, illustrated novel, Maro Verlag, Augsburg, Germany
2003 Eugen und der freche Wicht, childrens book from Anna Sommer und Michael Grotzer, Edition Moderne, Zürich, Switzerland
2006 Portrait d'Ari la nuit from Juan d'Oultremont, illustrated novel,Estuaire, Belgium