Do or Die
dal 15/9/2010 al 8/1/2011
Segnalato da
Helmut Newton
Ingres
Nan Goldin
Francois Boucher
Paul McCarthy
Wilhelm Leibl
Jack Pierson
Bartholomaus Bruyn the Elder
Anna Blume
Bernhard Blume
Hendrik Kerstens
Boris Mikhailov
Andreas Bluhm
Roland Krischel
15/9/2010
Do or Die
Wallraf-Richartz Museum - Fondation Corboud, Koln
The Human Condition in Painting and Photography. Outstanding items from the Teutloff photo + video collection will meet selected works owned by the museum. The oevres oscillate between the polarities of birth and death, happiness and suffering, confidence and despair. Around 70 works of the late 20th and early 21st centuries contrast with more than 40 masterpieces of European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century.
Collection Teutloff meets Wallraf
Helmut Newton & Ingres, Nan Goldin & François Boucher, Paul McCarthy & Wilhelm Leibl, Jack Pierson & Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder – these are just four of the approximately fifty unusual dialogues the Wallraf will be staging in autumn 2010. Under the title "Do or Die - The Human Condition in Painting and Photography" outstanding items from the Teutloff Photo + Video Collection will meet selected works owned by the museum. At the heart of the exhibition will be the glamour and misery of Mankind. The photographs and paintings oscillate between the polarities of birth and death, happiness and suffering, confidence and despair.
The direct comparison between painting and photography shows how the old picture, composition and pathos formulae have continued into the present day, a fact clearly demonstrated by the specially chosen quotes in the works of Anna and Bernhard Blume and Boris Mikhailov. At the same time the formal and thematic breaks with tradition that characterize, sometimes shockingly, certain photographic works from the Teutloff Collection, also stand out. They lay a trail to existential themes such as "body awareness" and "sexual identity", which, depicted so explicitly, would have been unthinkable for the painters of past ages.
The Wallraf will contrast around 70 works from the wide-ranging and impressive collection of Lutz Teutloff (photographic and video art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries) with more than 40 rarely shown masterpieces from its own collection (European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century).
Cataloque
Do or Die – The Human Condition in Painting and Photography
Teutloff meets Wallraf
by Andreas Blühm und Roland Krischel (Hrsg.)
Hirmer Verlag, München
Image: Hendrik Kerstens, Bag, Teutloff Photo + Video Collection Bielefeld, c-print/dibond, Ed./Aufl.: 5/6, 108 x 87 cm
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Opening reception: Thursday 16 September 2010 7pm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
Martinsstr. 39, 50667 Köln
Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Every Thursday open in the evening till 10 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed Mondays, as well as on 24., 25. and 31.12. 2010 and on 1.1. 2011
Admission
Adults: € 9,50 per person (concession: € 7,50)
Families: € 19 (two persons with children)
Groups: € 8,50 per person for 20 or more people