Two Exhibitions
dal 7/5/2009 al 27/6/2009
Segnalato da
7/5/2009
Two Exhibitions
MARTa Herford Museum of Art and Design, Herford
Dennis Oppenheim's work ranges from Land Art via performance, video, film and photography through to sculptures and installations (indoor and outdoor). His current sculptures for public spaces hark back to his early works. Paolo Chiasera has created 2 installations both of which deal with the classic topic of landscape. In the first instance a series of gouaches from the work cycle The Trilogy produced in 2006 is integrated into the new context of a panoramic mural. However, the show does not address landscape as such, but rather explores how its artistic portrayal conflicts with the museum's spectacular architecture.
Dennis Oppenheim
"ELECTRIC KISSES"
His creative output covers 40 years and in his work US artist Dennis Oppenheim (born 1938) has repeatedly explored the limits of art. His work ranges from Land Art via performance, video, film and photography through to sculptures and installations (indoor and outdoor). Already in the late 1960s Oppenheim extended the range of his sculptural activity moving out of the gallery and museum rooms to take in the landscape.
His current sculptures for public spaces hark back to his early works. However, in contrast to the land and body art projects it is not the artist himself who explores the various locations but the observer becomes a discoverer in his encounter with the artwork and alters his role from passive recipient to actor.
The exhibition in MARTa Herford covers a wide range from the early projects dating back to the 1960s and 1970s to current projects, which are being shown to a wider public for the first time. The focus is on models and large-format installations for public spaces: worm-like bus stations, flying caravans and habitable pylons. With his fantastic housings and hybrid objects Dennis Oppenheim invites us to fathom the meaning of the respective place. In their ambivalence the works become the catalysts of events, which question prevailing concepts of the world.
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Paolo Chiasera
"UNDER THE OPEN SKY"
For all the diversity in terms of the artistic means he employs, and they range from painting and drawing via sculpture and installation through to video and performance, Paolo Chiasera always uses a recurring set of motifs
Born in 1978 in Bologna, he has for years addressed that complex relationship that unites young people with their (role) models and traditions. The figure of the hero plays just as important a role in his projects as does the process of destruction and new beginnings. The latter idea also contains the metaphor and familiar conflict artists face between art history bearing down on them and the need to set themselves apart from it in favor of the new. Chiasera employs this drama for his paintings and installations not only with intellectual reflection and conceptual detachment but repeatedly with relish and great emotionality, nor does he shy away from the pathos of grand gestures.
For MARTa Herford Paolo Chiasera has created two installations both of which deal with the classic topic of landscape. In the first instance a series of gouaches from the work cycle The Trilogy produced in 2006 is integrated into the new context of a panoramic mural. However, the exhibition does not address landscape as such, but rather explores how its artistic portrayal conflicts with the museum’s spectacular architecture. This is particularly evident in the second installation when an entire mountain in the form of a monumental painted stage set swallows the museum.
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Opening: 8 May 2009 h 7.30 p.m.
MARTa Herford Museum of Art and Design
Goebenstrasse 4 - Herford