Fotografie Total
dal 1/6/2012 al 12/1/2013
Segnalato da
1/6/2012
Fotografie Total
MMK - Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
In displays changing regularly over a period of seven months, the museum will show new thematic ensembles with a focus on important conceptual strategies as well as the architectural photography in its holdings. Also, The MMK presents the work Commission by Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout which he has redeveloped specifically for the museum. The installation revolves primarily around a film set in the Zuidplein shopping mall in South Rotterdam. In 2010, the artist opened a small temporary shop in Zuidplein.
In displays changing regularly over a period of seven months, the MMK will show new thematic ensembles with a focus on important conceptual strategies as well as the architectural photography in its holdings. This presentation mode will permit the museum to place several hundred works on view in suspenseful and unexpected constellations, and thus to unfold an impressive panorama of artistic photography.
With more than 2,600 works, the MMK has in its possession a contemporary photography collection of international character and worldwide significance. It encompasses chief works by many outstanding artists who have explored the photographic medium over the past five decades and contributed decisively to shaping the development of artistic photography. They include such artists as Jeff Wall, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans and Thomas Demand, as well as important representatives of artistic photojournalism such as Paul Almasy, Barbara Klemm and Anja Niedringhaus.
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Erik van Lieshout
The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main presents the work Commission by Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout (b. 1968), which he has redeveloped specifically for the museum. The MMK is extremely pleased about the acquisition of the installation, which will be shown as part of the upcoming collection display Fotografie Total: Works from the MMK Collection (3 June 2012–13 January 2013).
The installation revolves primarily around a film set in the Zuidplein shopping mall in South Rotterdam. In 2010, the artist opened a small temporary shop in Zuidplein. Rather than sales merchandise, he offered his customers worn-out articles of everyday use, which he gave them free of charge. The artist used this project as a means of striking up entertaining conversations with other shop owners, shoppers, and neighbourhood residents. The result is now being installed by the artist in a central space in the museum as a documentary-style film work.
Erik van Lieshout has lived and worked in the vicinity of the shopping center for fourteen years, and already made a number of other films there such as Respect, featured in the Dutch Pavilion of the 2003 Venice Biennale. Zuidplein was built in 1968 and, in its early years, embodied a promise of prosperity, freedom, and urban harmony. The district became increasingly impoverished, however, and was eventually associated with a lack of social prospects and on-going violence. While the management of Zuidplein attempted to keep up a positive image, the mall suffered from increasing financial as well as political neglect.
In Commission, van Lieshout captures the juxtaposition of global sales offers and substantial socio-political problems from a humorous perspective. Original works from the consumer and pop culture turn up again and again in collage-like manner, alternating with fragments of conversations between shop owners and shoppers and thus sketching an image of present-day consumer society.
New collection display Fotografie Total
Commission will be presented as part of the exhibition Fotografie Total: Works from the MMK Collection. With this exhibition the MMK presents a sequel to the first presentation of its photography holdings in a show of 2010 entitled The Lucid Evidence. Over a period of seven months, the museum shows new thematic ensembles of its photographic works in changing displays concentrating particularly on important conceptual strategies. Works by Lothar Baumgarten, Anna and Bernhard Blume, and Bernd and Hilla Becher are as much a focus here as video installations by Aernout Mik, Mario Pfeifer, and Erik van Lieshout and photojournalistic works from the MMK Collection. Especially worthy of mention in the last-named category are works by Barbara Klemm, Paul Almasy as well as Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado. The same is true for Anja Niedringhaus, whose new series will be shown for the first time at the MMK.
The presentation changes over the course of the show, permitting the museum to place several hundred works on view in suspenseful and unexpected constellations and thus to unfold an impressive panorama of contemporary photography. The wide spectrum of photographic techniques represented within the MMK Collection includes amongst others vintage prints on baryta-coated paper, Polaroid snapshots, and the monumental light boxes of Jeff Wall.
A party with Erik van Lieshout and Club Robert Johnson will take place on 2 June from 7pm on the occasion of the opening of Fotografie Total: Works from the MMK Collection.
Press contact
Christina Henneke
T +49 69 21237761
Daniela Denninger, Julia Haecker
T +49 69 21235844
F +49 69 21237882
presse.mmk@stadt-frankfurt.de
Opening: 2. June, 7pm, With Erik van Lieshout and Club Robert Johnson
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstraße 10 - 60311 Frankfurt am Main
Opening hours:
Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm
Wed 10 am - 8 pm
Admission
concessions 10/5 €
Schoool classes 3 € per persons
Admission is free for children aged 6