Eating the Universe
dal 27/11/2009 al 27/2/2010
Segnalato da
Sonja Alhauser
Arman
BBB Johannes Deimling
Christine Bernhard
Joseph Beuys
Michel Blazy
John Bock
Paul McCarthy
Cesar
Arpad Dobriban
Dustin Ericksen
Mike Rogers
Lili Fischer
Thomas Feuerstein
Anya Gallacio
Carsten Holler
Christian Jankowski
Bernd Jansen
Elke Krystufek
Peter Kubelka
Richard Lindner
Gordon Matta-Clark
Antoni Miralda
Dorothee Selz
Tony Morgan
L.A. Raeven
Thomas Rentmeister
Zeger Reyers
Philip Ross
Dieter Roth
Mika Rottenberg
Judith Samen
Shimabuku
Daniel Spoerri
Jana Sterbak
Andre' Thomkins
Rikrit Tiravanija
Gunther Uecker
Ben Vautier
Andreas Wegner
Gunther Weseler
27/11/2009
Eating the Universe
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
Food in Art. A small historical part of the show is based on select seminal works by Daniel Spoerri, and some of the most important multiples created for the Eat Art Gallery in the 1970's. The main part of the exhibition features a wide range of more recent work dealing with the use of edible materials. They include sculptural takes on the aesthetic materiality of food, work that tests the boundaries of good taste and revulsion or that breeds organisms under the conditions of industrial food production. It includes important international loans, with objects and performances developed especially for the project by selected artists.
Eat Art, a term coined by Daniel Spoerri for art made with and involving food, has its institutionalized origins in Düsseldorf. Two years after opening his restaurant at the Burgplatz, the Swiss artist founded the Eat Art Gallery in 1970 and inspired numerous artists to produce various editions made of edible materials and food wastes. The exhibition “Eating the Universe” — a title created in the 1970's by Peter Kubelka, former professor for Film and Cooking at the Frankfurt Städelschule, for a TV-show about cooking as an artistic genre — takes generous stock of the phenomena from today's perspective and traces the original character of eat art from its origins until today. The exhibition demonstrates the continuing great attraction of the topic of food as a fundamental interface of art and life and its enormous relevance until the present day, especially against the backdrop of issues such as affluence and hunger, the anti-consumerism and anti-globalization movements, modern dietetics and cooking shows, health crazes and fast food.
The exhibit is structured into two sections. Based on select seminal works by Daniel Spoerri, as well as some of the most important multiples created for the Eat Art Gallery, the small historical part of the exhibition traces the origins of Eat Art and presents a reconstruction of the gallery and its activities. The main part of the exhibition features a wide range of more recent work dealing with the use of edible materials. They include sculptural takes on the aesthetic materiality of food, work that tests the boundaries of good taste and revulsion or that breeds organisms under the conditions of industrial food production. The kitchen as a creative and social production site is just as much an issue as the media impact and marketability of gastronomical performances. Some works reflects the behavioral patterns of our affluent society, consumer culture and corporeality, as well as ideals of beauty and eating disorders, other pieces play with the surreal, cryptic or grotesque aspects of the way we handle food in our everyday lives. The exhibit includes important international loans, as well as objects and performances developed especially for the project by selected artists.
List of Participating Artists:
Sonja Alhäuser, Arman, BBB Johannes Deimling, Christine Bernhard, Joseph Beuys, Michel Blazy, John Bock, Paul McCarthy, César, Arpad Dobriban, Dustin Ericksen/Mike Rogers, Lili Fischer, Thomas Feuerstein, Anya Gallacio, Carsten Höller, Christian Jankowski, Bernd Jansen, Elke Krystufek, Peter Kubelka, Richard Lindner, Gordon Matta-Clark, Antoni Miralda und Dorothee Selz, Tony Morgan, L.A. Raeven, Thomas Rentmeister, Zeger Reyers, Philip Ross, Dieter Roth, Mika Rottenberg, Judith Samen, Shimabuku, Daniel Spoerri, Jana Sterbak, André Thomkins, Rikrit Tiravanija, Günther Uecker, Ben Vautier, Andreas Wegner, Günther Weseler.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published at Dumont Publishing House with essays by Christiane Boje, Renate Buschmann, Beate Ermacora, Ulrike Groos, Magdalena Holzhey, Elke Krasny und Nikolai Wojtko sowie Künstlertexten von Sylvette Babin, Jörg van den Berg, Elodie Evers, Gerrit Gohlke, Roland Groenenboom, Thomas Hirsch, Magdalena Holzhey, Eva M. Kobler, Michael Krajewski, Harald Lemke, Johannes Meinhardt, Francis Outred, Philip Ross, Dietmar Rübel, Andreas Schlaegel und Henning Weidemann. Ca. 300 pages with numerous color plates.
The exhibition will be presented in the Gallery of the Taxipalais Innsbruck from April 24th until July 4th, 2010 and at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart from September 18th, 2010 until January 9th, 2011.
In parallel to the exhibition there will be an extensive supporting program in German and English.
Press and PR
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Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Grabbeplatz 4 D-40213 Düsseldorf
Opening Times:
Tue — Sat noon — 7pm,
Sundays and public holidays 11am — 6pm
Free guided tour in German every Sunday, 12.30pm
Entry Fees:
EUR 5.50
EUR 3.50 with concession
Groups (10 or more) EUR 3.50
Free entrance for visitors under age 18 and disabled persons