Three exhibitions
dal 13/6/2006 al 2/9/2006
Segnalato da
13/6/2006
Three exhibitions
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The streets of Paris and Berlin, a German art newspaper and the former French colony Algeria are the focus of a joint exhibition project by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Haus der Kunst Munchen, and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. The show examines the history of art to address questions of European democracy since the revolutionary year 1848.
Art and democracy
The streets of Paris and Berlin, a German art newspaper and the former
French colony Algeria are the focus of a joint exhibition project by the
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Haus der Kunst Munchen, and the
Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Under the broad title Art and Democracy, it will
examine the history of art to address questions of European democracy
since the revolutionary year 1848, which spelled an end to absolutism and
led to the introduction of national sovereignty.
Particularly important for the overall exhibition project is the history of the gaze,
which exchanged the single-point perspective of the ruler for disparate
viewpoints, and provides a wide variety of images by and for a
self-perceptive modern society.
Conquering the Streets
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
(15 June-3 September 2006)
The exhibition Conquering the Streets at the Schirn Kunsthalle does not
attempt to make a comparison but rather to establish an urbanistic system
of reference that connects the metropolises of French Impressionism and
German Expressionism. In doing so it not only reveals a decades-long
fascination on the part of artists for a new form of landscape painting
but also follows in parallel a trail of urban planning that extended from
the enduring interventions of Baron Georges-Euge'ne Haussmann in Paris to
extensive new construction in Berlin under James Hobrecht.
The fascination and curiosity with which artists like Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro
recorded the anonymity of the urban resident and thus shifted the genre of
landscape to the urban space mutated in the confrontation with Berlin
during the first decades of the twentieth century into the horror of a
society and, especially as depicted by George Grosz or even Ludwig
Meidner, perverted the city and turned it into a living being, a wild
predator.
Architecture and painting, and later photography, lithography,
and film as well, establish a broad panorama in the Frankfurt exhibition
of the life of society, more particular bourgeois society, in these two
metropolises and provide information about changes in the perception and
self-perception of modern ways of life.
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A view for the people. Art for all.
Haus der Kunst Munchen
(14 June-3 September 2006)
That which the Frankfurt exhibition catches in a rather wide-meshed net is
made more precise by the exhibition "A view for the people. Art for all" at
the Haus der Kunst in Munich. One factor of profound significance in the
artistic education of modern society was the journal Die Kunst fur Alle
(Art for everyone), which was first published in 1885 by the
Bruckmann-Verlag in Munich.
It enjoyed some of the circulation figures and
the greatest influence of any art journal in German, and it exploited
fully the new medium of photographic reproduction of paintings. The
editors wanted to do more than reproduce art, however; they wanted to
comment on it and give it direction.
The journal proclaimed a new, “modern" art that would not be elitist, avant-garde, or incomprehensible
but should belong to the people. The journal’s programmatic title was
supposed to be fulfilled in the political dimension of the “people": with
slogans like “health" and “race" the journal delivered messages that would
later be adopted by the National Socialists.
The exhibition presents paintings, prints, and postcards by artists like
Franz von Stuck, Lovis Corinth, and Hans Thoma as well as by painters of
the 1920s and from the Grobe Deutsche Kunstaustellungen (Great German art
exhibitions). The focus of the exhibition is on the journal itself. Every
year from 1885 to 1944 is represented in a selection of relevant
quotations and pages. The staging and programming of seeing for the masses
that was the aim of the editors of Die Kunst fur Alle thus becomes evident
in the exhibition.
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Pierre Bourdieu: The Algerian War and Photography
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
(23 June-3 September 2006)
The exhibition "Pierre Bourdieu: The Algerian War and Photography" in the
House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg turns our gaze toward
another culture. The collection of photographs by the famous French
sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu, which have been made
public only recently, were taken during the brutal guerilla war in what
was then a French colony in north Africa. They tell the story of a bloody
conflict that began in the mid-nineteenth century between settlers from
Europe who were originally motivated by democratize and civilize the
country (some of them were exiled democrats from the 1848 revolution) and
the Muslim population striving for self-determination.
The photographic production from this final and most intense “war of
photographs" ranges from the reportage photography of the 1950s and 1960s
from the French weekly illustrated magazine Paris Match and the German
magazines Stern and Der Spiegel by way of propaganda photographs from both
sides on to private and personal photographs by soldiers, freedom
fighters, and eyewitnesses, including Pierre Bourdieu’s photographs from
Algeria. The result is a critical dialogue over free democracy and a
“struggle between civilizations" that is highly topical today.
Opening Hours: tue-fri-sun 10am-7pm, wed-thur 10am-10pm
Schirn Kunsthalle
Romerberg - Frankfurt am Main
Opening Hours: monday-sunday 10-20, thursday 10-22
Haus der Kunst Munchen
Prinzregentenstrasse 1 - Munchen
Opening Hours: Tue-Sun 11:00 - 18:00 Uhr, Closed on mondays.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Deichtorstrasse 1+2 - Hamburg