Two exhibitions
dal 11/3/2011 al 2/10/2011
Segnalato da
11/3/2011
Two exhibitions
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
'Modern Times. The Collection 1900-1945'. The show displays paintings and sculptures from the classical modernist period up to 1945. This will be followed by a second show featuring works from the period after the Second World War. The Apparatjik Light Space Modulator is presented as a twofold project: during two weeks the installation can be accessed in the glass hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie and three unique concerts that will be performed at the same location. Those performances are inspired by the visual experiments of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
Modern Times
The Collection. 1900-1945. New National Gallery
The true extent of the wealth of artworks owned by the National Gallery is to be revealed as never before. From March 2010 onwards, paintings and sculptures from the classical modernist period up to 1945 will go on display to the public. This will be followed by a second show featuring works from the period after the Second World War.
There are few other museums where history has played as instrumental a role in shaping the collection as it has done in the National Gallery in Berlin. Most damaging of all in the pre-war years was the splintering of the collection by the Nazi campaign against 'Degenerate Art' in 1937. Countless Expressionist masterpieces such as Franz Marc's 'Tower of the Blue Horses' vanished from the collection and are still sorely missed to this day. The most important of these lost key works will be integrated into the great showcase of the collection in March in the form of a 'shadow gallery'.
The partition of Germany also manifested itself in the differing strategies adopted in maintaining the collection: while in West Berlin the formal innovations of various avant-garde trends came to the forefront, in the East Berlin National Gallery, the emphasis lay firmly on the art's content. The merger of the two collections resulted in several groups of works complementing each other, as seen in the abstract artist and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy, whose work is now juxtaposed with that of Oskar Nerlinger, who uses similar elements in relation with people and machines to illustrate the city, technology and work.
----------------
The Apparatjik Light Space Modulator
Apparatjik has been invited by the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin to present the collective's first large-scale project in Germany in March
2011.
Apparatjik is a transdisciplinary working collective founded in 2008 by four
world-renowned musicians: Guy Berryman (London), Jonas Bjerre
(Copenhagen), Magne Furuholmen (Oslo), and Martin Terefe (London).
Apparatjik functions as an experimental platform and collaborates with a pool
of artists, media technicians, and designers, as well as scientists such as
M.I.T. Astrophysics Professor Max Tegmark and curator Ute Meta Bauer, Head
of the M.I.T. Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
The Apparatjik Light Space Modulator is presented as a twofold project:
during two weeks the installation can be accessed in the glass hall of the
Neue Nationalgalerie and three unique concerts that will be performed at the
same location. Those performances are inspired by the visual experiments of
László Moholy-Nagy. Moholy-Nagy taught at the German Bauhaus, as did Mies
van der Rohe who was the architect of the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin.
At the
center of both the Apparatjik installation and concerts are moving images that
project from a large scale cube into the open glass structure of the building
into the city space -- a reference to the kinetic Licht-Raum-Modulator created
in 1930 by Bauhaus artist Moholy-Nagy.
Apparatjik’s project will conclude on March 27 with a special interactive
composition performed in collaboration with the Deutsches Kammerorchester.
This concert is dedicated to Mies van der Rohe on the occasion of the 125th
anniversary of his birth.
The Apparatjik Light Space Modulator incorporates low-res retro-futuristic
visuals, gonzo-pop, randomness and pseudo-science, dadaesque humor, and
fashion, in a celebration of convergence culture. Apparatjik's blend of popular
culture and playful references to art history places them in a space
somewhere between art and popular culture. Last but not least, this project
by Apparatjik is to be understood as homage to the legendary Meta-Musik-
Festival that took place during the seventies at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin.
The Apparatjik Light Space Modulator will be accompanied by a publication in
collaboration with NODE Berlin Oslo to be published in late 2011 including a
comprehensive documentation of this project.
Presse Anne Schäfer-Junker
presse@smb.spk-berlin.de
Kleopatra Tuemmler
Projektkoordinatorin
k.tuemmler@mac.com
Performances: March 12, March 26, and March 27, 2011
Tickets for the performances are available at www.apparatjik.com
Installation 'Apparatjik TV': March 13–25, 2011
Tu, We, Fr 10 am – 6 pm, Thu 10 am – 10 pm, Sa + Su 11 am – 6 pm
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz - Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin
Opening Hours: Tue - Sun 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thu 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.