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13/9/2013

Three exhibitions

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Andy Warhol
Drawings from the 1950s
14.09. - 17.11.2013
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in the Pinakothek der Moderne

Executed in the most varied techniques, the nearly 180 graphic works on view here are on loan from Daniel Blau, as well as other private collectors. The exhibition was previously presented to great acclaim at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek and at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.

An extensive group of the artist's drawings that dated from the 1950's, Warhol's early period in New York, was found in Andy Warhol's estate in 2011. Warhol had already laid the foundations of his entire later career in these works. We encounter portraits, flowers, protesters, guns, and automobile accidents, as well as famous figures.

The drawings reveal an artist who not only visually recorded the world around him, but who also reflected it as an image. Warhol often found his imagery in the world of street photography, although he transformed its realism into specific emblems. Early on, we discover his astonishing ability to transfer external reality into something iconic.

The works are characterized by an experimental and innovative spirit. Warhol makes use here of repetitive, conceptual mechanisms, in which the fragmentary and additive, as well as tracing and reproducing processes, assume an artistic importance. They furthermore exhibit the seed of the artist's preoccupation - beginning in the 1960s - with the printmaking technique of silk screening, with which the artist would gain international fame.

The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München recently acquired an important drawing from the selection presented with funds from PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne.

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AFRITECTURE
Building Social Change
14 Sept. 2013 – 12 Jan. 2014
Architekturmuseum der TU München at the Pinakothek der Moderne

Contemporary architectural practice in Africa is witness to many new and innovative approaches in the area of socially committed building: schools, nursery schools, marketplaces, hospitals, cultural centers, sports facilities and assembly halls. It is these public buildings and commonly used spaces in particular where signs of new utility and architectural concepts are made manifest. In many cases, future users are directly involved in the design and building processes. In addition to the use of the latest technology many of the construction projects are being developed with local materials and resume dormant building traditions.

In its exhibition »AFRITECTURE – Building Social Change« the Architekturmuseum der TU München will shed a spotlight on those projects, with a particular emphasis on those that have been initiated by architects and whose conceptualization incorporates global relationships in addition to those of local culture and individual social groups. By taking into account ecological, economic and social aspects several architects have developed sustainable approaches and solutions to some of the continent’s most pressing design challenges. The exhibition comprises twenty-eight projects from ten countries within Subsaharan Africa, including Kenya, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and South Africa. All projects have been developed since the turn of the millenium and have been planned by African as well as European and North American architects.The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive supporting program with lectures and a full day symposium which will address central aspects of the exhibition, including Africa’s urbanization, participation and questions of architectural identity. There will be a catalogue both in German and English by Hatje Cantz publishers.

Program accompanying the exhibition:

LECTURES:
We 25.09.2013 | Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium | 18.00
Jo Noero: Limits to Architecture

Thu 17.10.2013 | Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium | 18.00
Diébédo Francis Kéré: Bridging the Gap and Farrokh Derakhshani: The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture: Challenges and Solutions

Thu 31.10.2013 | Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium | 18.00
Wolfgang Lauber: Clay Buildings of the Dogon in Mali

Thu 28.11.2013 | Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium | 18.00
Cameron Sinclair: Building Chances: Architecture for Humanity

Thu 5.12.2013 | Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium | 18.00
David Adjaye in conversation with Okwui Enwezor. Moderator: Andres Lepik

SYMPOSIUM:
Do/Fr 14./15.11.2013 | Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium | 14.11.2013: 18.00-20.00 and 15.11.2013: 9.00–19.00
www.architekturmuseum.de

Media partnership: uncube magazine and BauNetz

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MOROCCAN CARPETS AND MODERN ART
14.09.2013–05.01.2014
Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich

As an upbeat, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich will be exhibiting one the of the world's most important collections of carpets made by Moroccan nomads - »a far-reaching subject that sends out a strong signal at the reopening«. (Florian Hufnagl, Director, Die Neue Sammlung)

In the early 20th century, Moroccan carpets fascinated artists such as Paul Klee and Le Corbusier and today bring images of Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly or Sean Scully to mind. In other words, an enquiry into the Islamically influenced culture of North Africa in general and carpets from Morocco in particular leads us to the roots of European avant-garde art. The Islamic prohibition on depictions of the human being led among the Maghreb Berbers to a radical form of abstraction and a completely free and in our eyes very modern approach to color and shape. In the age of globalization and the increasing dominance of purely Western notions, on the one hand, and the radicalization of Islam, on the other, it is so very important to focus on the intellectual linkages and cultural interchange between the Orient and the Occident.

The exhibition will center on the collection of Munich architect Professor Jürgen Adam. He assembled it himself down through the decades in Morocco – and it is one of the most important private collections of Moroccan nomad carpets the world over. Especially in the Pinakothek der Moderne the theme admirably highlights the intrinsic links between the different art genres that lay the foundations for the concept underlying this interdisciplinary museum, which is truly unique worldwide.The exhibition is supported by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V. and Jan Fischer. The book has been produced with the generous support of Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung. An exhibition by Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich

On the occasion of the reopening of the Pinakothek der Moderne on September 14, free admission to the entire museum is being granted to all visitors.

Press Dept. at the Pinakothek Museums:
Tine Nehler M.A. | Head of the Press Dept.
Pinakothek der Moderne and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Kunstareal | Barer Strasse 29 | 80799 Munich
T +49 (0)89 23805-118 | F +49 (0)89 23805-125
e-mail: presse@pinakothek.de

Press preview: 11.09.2013 | 11.00 am
Opening: 11.09.2013 | 06.30 pm

Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Strasse 40 - Munich
Hours: daily except mon 10am-6pm, thu 10am-8pm
Admission: regular 10 euro, reduced 7 euro

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