Body Pressure
dal 24/5/2013 al 11/1/2014
Segnalato da
24/5/2013
Body Pressure
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Sculpture since the 1960s. The many different approaches to the human figure in contemporary sculpture through a selection of works from the collections of the Nationalgalerie
This exhibition examines the many different approaches to the human figure in contemporary sculpture through a selection of works from the collections of the Nationalgalerie. Free of any exhibition architecture, the expansive Historic Hall is transformed into a light-flooded "sculpture garden." The materiality of works changes dramatically beginning in the 1960s; in addition to marble and bronze artists use plastic, ceramics, wax, rubber, and even their own excrement. Figurative sculpture no longer symbolizes the claims of public representation, demonstrations of power, religion, and mythology. It no longer serves as monument. In the context of feminist critique and the process-based art of the 1970s, sculpture expands into the dimension of the performative. The body itself becomes a sculptural object. Often fragmented and abstract, the figurative sculpture of the present always negotiates our contemporary social and cultural context as well. Curators: Henriette Huldisch and Lisa Marei Schmidt. (Image: Paul McCarthy, Michael Jackson and Bubbles -Gold, 1997-1999 Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Roman Marz)