Frank Stella
dal 7/9/2012 al 19/1/2013
Segnalato da
7/9/2012
Frank Stella
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
His large Black Paintings not only intensified the debate on Minimalism in painting but also prepared the way for the 'exit from the picture into space'. The Retrospective features circa 63 mostly large-format works as well as 82 drawings and sketches and simultaneously wishes to place Stella's oeuvre in a broader art historical context that extends far beyond modernism for the first time.
Frank Stella – The Retrospective. Works 1958-2012
Frank Stella (born 1936) is one of the last living heroes of American painting from the 1950s and 1960s. Stella’s recent works demonstrate yet again his compelling path in the direction of abstraction. Hardly twenty-years old, the young artist conquered the New York art scene in the late 1950s with a sensation: His large Black Paintings not only intensified the debate on Minimalism in painting but also prepared the way for the “exit from the picture into space.” But unlike his contemporaries, Stella took a completely independent path that led him to ever more opulent, ever more baroque reliefs. With his turn “from Minimalism to Maximalism,” Frank Stella developed into one of the most distinctive artists of the 20th century. Featuring circa 63 mostly large-format works as well as 82 drawings and sketches, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is honoring Frank Stella with a comprehensive exhibition that makes up the capstone to the wide range of presentations celebrating the artist’s 75th birthday.
With its great hall and flexible wall system, the Kunstmuseum enables the colorful, in part extremely large aluminum reliefs to fully unfold in a way that hardly any other museum can, namely thanks to a customized exhibition architecture. It supports the representation of his work’s logical development over a half century, tracing in the process the artist’s successive efforts to conquer space from the two-dimensionality of the painting up to and including his visionary and most recent works. The retrospective simultaneously wishes to place Stella’s oeuvre in a broader art historical context that extends far beyond modernism for the first time. ArchiSculptures and architectural models make up the conclusion of the exhibition.
The exhibition is sponsored by Volkswagen Financial Services AG.
PROGRAM (Selection)
Exhibition catalogue (available in German and English)
can be ordered online at the museum shop
shop@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de Price 42.00 EUR
Guided tours
Public guided tours, guided tours for private groups (also available in English), guided tours for families.
Contact: T. +49 (0)5361 2669 20 or fuehrungen@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
Audioguide
Audioguide (also available in English) to the exhibition: 3.00 EUR.
VIP Time
Wednesday/Thursday/Saturday 6-8 p.m. or Tuesday/Friday 8-9 p.m.
Exclusive guided tours for groups outside the regular opening hours also available in English.
1 h: 350.00 EUR per group/maximum 20 peresons including museum admission fee.
Registration: T. +49 (0)5361 2669 20 or fuehrungen@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
Piece for Piece
September, 18 and 25, October, 9 and 16, November, 6, 13 and 20. At 6.30 p.m.
To deepen the visitor's thematic understanding of the exhibition the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg offers the "Piece for Piece"-series as single events or as a museum subscription (in German).
Single ticket 5.00 EUR plus museum admission fee.
Subscription: 30.00 EUR including museum admission fee.
Artist's Talk
Saturday, September, 8, 2012, 7.30 p.m.
Frank Stella in Conversation with Hanno Rauterberg (DIE ZEIT).
At the American Academy Berlin, Am Sandwerder 17. Free admission
Only with advance registration: artiststalk@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
Chefsache
Thursday, September 13, 2012, 7 p.m.
Intensive course through the exhibition with Prof. Dr. Markus Brüderlin (in German).
Duration: 2 hours. Admission fee 12.00 EUR, discounted 8.00 EUR including museum admission fee
Registration: chefsache@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
Stella Night
Friday, October, 12 2012, from 8 p.m.
Stella Art, Cool Jazz, Hot Drinks.
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg meets Jazzkantine.
Admission fee 12.00 EUR, discounted 6.00 EUR. stellanight@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
Podium discussion
Wednesday, November, 28, 2012, 8 p.m.
American Art of the 1960s
Prof. Dr. Markus Brüderlin and guests (in German)
At the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Pariser Platz.
Admission fee 12.00 EUR, discounted 6.00 EUR.
Registration: podiumsdiskussion@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
Image: Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton, 1988. Mixed media on aluminum, 426 x 485 x 47 cm. SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Hollerplatz 1 - 38440 Wolfsburg
Wednesday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Tuesday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Monday closed
Holidays Opening Hours
Tuesday, 1 May 2012 and at Ascenion Day, Thursday, 17 May 2012
the museum is open from 11 am until 6 pm
Pentecost Sunday, 27 May - Monday, 28 May, 11 am - 6 pm
Admission: EUR 8,-
Concessions: EUR 4,-
family ticket: EUR 12,-
annual ticket: EUR 30,-
groups of 12 persons or more: EUR 4,- per person
school parties: EUR 4,- per pupil
guided tours in English and French: phone +49 (0) 5361 266920
guided tours
Privately guided tours for groups through the current exhibitions or for specific topics are available in English, phone +49 (0) 5361 266920.
The fee for an English guided tour is EUR 90,- + EUR 4,- per person as entrance fee.