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18/12/2009

Two exhibitions

Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg

December 19, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Where is the wind when it isn't blowing? - Political graphic novels from Albrecht Dürer to Art Spiegelma

Ad Reinhardt, Martin Arnold, Gerd Arntz, Ferdinand Barlog, Berthold Bartosch, Harold Begbie / Francis Carruthers Gould, Steve Bell, Shirley Bogart, Klaus Budzinski / Rainer Hachfeld, Stanley Brouwn, Jacques Callot, Clavé / Godard, Edmond Francois Calvo, Jake und Dinos Chapman, Sue Coe, M. Philip Copp, Stephen Croall, Robert Crumb, Jari Pekka Cuypers, Honoré Daumier, Lin Da-we, Dave Decat, James Dyrenforth / Max Kester, Walt Disney, Gábor Friedrich, Gustave Doré, Albrecht Dürer, Ekkes, Martin Gray, Guibert / Lefévre / Lemercier, Olaf Gulbransson, Masist Gül, Will Eisner, Max Ernst, Öyvind Fahlström, Jules Feiffer, Lyonel Feininger, Ari Folman, Jean-Claude Forest, Rube Goldberg, Francisco de Goya, Vernon Greene, Keith Haring, George Herriman, Hergé, Hans Holbein d. J., Paul Hogarth, William Hogarth, Laurence Hyde, Jörg Immendorff, Sid Jacobson / Ernie Colón, Henri Gustave Jossot, Rolf Kauka, Reinhard Kleist, Joe Kubert, John Leech, Herbert Lehmann, Ján Mancuska, Stefan Marx, Frans Masereel, David Mazzucchelli, Winsor McCay, Scott McCloud, Carl Meffert, Alfred von Meysenbug, Jürgen Metz / Charly G. Schütz, Mike Mignola, Henry Moore, Iain Morris, Keiji Nakazawa, Otto Neurath, Otto Nückel, Erich Ohser, Michael O’ Donoghue, Dan O’Neill, Henrik Olesen, Karl Ewald Olszewski, George Orwell, Richard Felton Outcault, Giacomo Patri, Gladys Parker, Guy Peellaert / Pierre Bartier, Grayson Perry, Raymond Pettibon, Pablo Picasso, Fritz Raab, Alfred Rethel, Henry Ritter, Rius, Spain Rodriguez, Rose, Joe Sacco, Petr Sadecky, Marjane Satrapi, Gerald Scarfe, Gerhard Seyfried, Ben Shahn, Jim Shaw, Situationistische Internationale, Ernst Scheller, Manfred Schmid, Adolf Schrödter, William Siegel, Otto Soglow, Art Spiegelman, Robert und Philip Spence, Christoph Steinegger, Ernst Steingässer, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Lou Tji-gui, Mathilde ter Heijne, Rodolphe Toepffer, Gary Trudeau, Wang Tschun-bsin / Yang Scha, Félix Vallotton, Lynd Ward, Klaus Wiese / Christian Ziewer, Adolphe Willette, Oscar Zarate etc.

The graphic novel is the most democratic of all art forms because everyone can “read” and understand it. It presupposes no knowledge of cultural history, familiarity with subject matter, compositional principles, and allegorical content. The comic links individual scenes into a pictorial “text,” which does not necessarily say everything but whose interstices can be filled in associatively and by bringing in the person of the viewer to constitute a story. The democratic pictorial understanding innate to the comic, to sequential art, which – despite the name – is not necessarily “comic,” encapsulates the pretensions of institutions concerned with communicating art and bridging the gap between art production and the public.

The exhibition "Where is the wind when it isn't blowing? - Political graphic novels from Albrecht Dürer to Art Spiegelma" assembles an international spectrum of politically motivated sequential art from the invention of printing to the present day. All the works have a decidedly political dimension and they are presented not chronologically but in terms of content. These thematic complexes allow cross-references and allusions beyond the given historical context. The architecture on the upper floor of the Kunstverein specially developed for this exhibition underpins this reference system. The display elements recall the spatial sequences of a comic. Each and every panel is a self-contained unit that nevertheless interchanges with other themes offering cross-links. On the ground floor, Keith Haring’s graffiti provide a projection surface for classical presentation.

The two exhibition spaces relate text to image in their own way, inviting various approaches. The two levels are connected by the entrance area designed by Stefan Marx (*1979, lives in Hamburg). The extensive floor drawing takes up comic motifs, condensing them to constitute a complex universe.

The exhibition is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation

Media partner: die tageszeitung

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19. December 2009 - 28. November 2010
Stefan Marx

Since March 2009, the entire building of the Kunstverein has been used for exhibition purposes. The distinction between service and exhibition space has been abandoned and the foyer is now an integral part of the exhibition programme. Every year an artist will be presenting a solo exhibition in the 100 square metres of space available. This venue-specific exhibition is the heart of the Kunstverein: this is where every visit begins, where every visitor has to return. Each presentation mediates between the various exhibitions on the ground and upper floors, accompanying and supplemented the programme over a longer period of almost a year. The series has been inaugurated with the extensive sculpture Sleeping Buddha by Daniel Milohnic, which is on show until November 2009.

For 2010 the artist Stefan Marx, born and resident in Hamburg, will be presenting an installation. The principle underlying the exhibition is variability, continuous change in the course of the year. This dynamic approach is consonant with the place and in keeping with Marx’ artistic practice.

Essential to Stefan Marx’ exhibition at the Kunstverein is that no rigid object is to be created but a flexible, adaptable space, which, in continuous variation, he fills with a monthly programme of events. There will be a mural and sculptural elements that, while integrated into a range of functional contexts, will be presentation surfaces for drawings. For example, they will serve as seating for discussions or lectures, a stage for performances, a platform for concerts, or a skateboard ramp in the Kunstverein, in the public space. Numerous drawing and sketchbooks will be added, to be renewed in the course of the exhibition. Some will disappear, others will change, others again will be integrated in various ways into the various events.

Stefan Marx’ visual language requires no knowledge of art or cultural history, no acquaintance with subjects, principles of composition, or allegorical content: what is needed is an open mind for the multifarious perspectives of narration. Individual associations can differ, feeding from broadly ranging sources, from the world of the media to everyday life. The exhibition project thus enables visitors to contribute and participate on an equal footing. This is an example of a democratic visual language, a general and open offer primarily conveyed in narrative form. This language and installation, which closely combine various drawing and sculptural elements, have a fundamentally mediating thrust: individual scenes are linked to form a pictorial “text,” which does not necessarily say everything but whose interstices can be filled in associatively to constitute a story by bringing in the person of the viewer. The pictorial understanding innate to the project thus encapsulates the pretensions of institutions concerned with communicating art and bridging the gap between art production and the public, and which seek to play a pro-active, formative role in a continuously changing society. In his exhibition, Stefan Marx embraces the concept of a Kunstverein for “all,” trying out different formats beyond the classical exhibition series that involve people from various cultural fields.


Image: Jörg Immendorff, Akademie für Adler, 1989

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Beate Anspach, Public Relations Telephone +49(0)40 32 21 58 or presse@kunstverein.de

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