Hans-Peter Feldmann
dal 18/8/2006 al 11/11/2006
Segnalato da
18/8/2006
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Museum Ludwig, Koln
A 6-metre-tall, radiant pink "David" will look out over the Rhine. Weighing in at 1.5 tons and shaped in the form of Michelangelo's David, the sculpture will be stationed on Heinrich-Boll-Platz, between the Museum. The artist has designed it specially for the next exhibition "The Eighth Square. Gender, life and desire in art since 1960"
Unveiled as the Overture to "The Eighth Square"
From 14 July, a 6-metre-tall, radiant pink "David" will look out over the
Rhine. Weighing in at 1.5 tons and shaped in the form of Michelangelo's
David, the sculpture will be stationed on Heinrich-Boll-Platz, between
Museum Ludwig and the Rhine.
Dusseldorf artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has designed it specially for the exhibition "The Eighth Square. Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960".
On Wednesday, 12 July at around 2 p.m., "David" will be raised on to his
plinth. You are cordially invited to witness the procedure with your
cameras.
As an overture to the exhibition and to mark the beginning of the
Christopher Street Day weekend, the David sculpture will be unveiled on
Friday, 14 July at 8.30 p.m.
The Eighth Square. Gender, life and desire in art since 1960
From August, 19 the exhibition "The Eighth Square. Gender, life and desire
in art since 1960" will present with over 250 works by more than 80
artists an overview of how art has examined almost every form of sexual
desire outside of the heterosexual mainstream: transexuality,
homosexuality and intersexuality, transgender, drag and cross dressing.
The eighth square. Gender, life and desire in art since 1960
When a pawn in a chess match reaches the eighth square on the far side of the board, the player can swap him for a piece of his or her choice. So the pawn - a lowly foot soldier - can transform into a queen, a powerless figure into the epitome of power, a man into a woman.
Sexuality does not end in family politics or a TV series. Sexuality is always a quaking and transmuting, is desire and power, seduction and sadness, splendour and misery. Looking beyond vaudeville or pornography, only art enables the subject to be discovered in all its fascination and specificity. It not only permits a game with the sexes and with forbidden desires that is free of danger, but is alone able to grasp all of sexuality’s inherent contradictions. What does that mean for divergent desires? What does that mean after our present liberalisation, in a world standardised to death? What is this world like for feminine men, for masculine women?
“The Eighth Square" casts a new and sharp eye on art, it sounds out the historical and social developments. This is the first exhibition and the first catalogue in which drag and gender, queerness and transsexuality are presented on a broad platform, in all of its facets, and above all where it is allowed to be erotic.
The exhibition presents works by David Altmejd, Kenneth Anger, Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Francis Bacon, Stephen Barker, Matthew Barney, Monica Bonvicini, Marc Brandenburg, Kaucyila Brooke, Louise Bourgeois, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Tom Burr, Daniela Comani, Lucky DeBellevue, Kerstin Drechsel, Nicole Eisenman, Thomas Eggerer, Valie Export, Hans Peter Feldmann, Jochen Flinzer, Annette Frick, General Idea, Gilbert & George, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sunil Gupta, David Hockney, Jonathan Horowitz, Peter Hujar, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Deborah Kass, Jurgen Klauke, Peter Knoch, Ferdinand Kriwet, Ins A Kromminga, Inez van Lamsweerde, Zoe Leonard, John Lindell, Lovett/Codagnone, Attila Richard Lukacs, Winja Lutz and Toni Schmale, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bjorn Melhus, Marlene McCarty, Michaela Melia'n, Annette Messager, Donald Moffett, Tracey Moffatt, Pierre Molinier, Yasumasa Morimura, Bruce Nauman, Piotr Nathan, Marcel Odenbach, Henrik Olesen, Catherine Opie, Jack Pierson, Adrian Piper, Aurora Reinhard, Robert Rauschenberg, Salome', Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Dayanita Singh, Markus Sixay, Jack Smith, Katharina Sieverding, Ingo Taubhorn, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Thek, Cy Twombly, Gitte Villesen, Del LaGrace Volcano, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol and David Wojnarowicz.
The title "The Eighth Square" refers to a rule in chess: When a pawn
reaches the eighth square on the far side of the board, the player can
swap him for a piece of his or her choice. So the pawn - a lowly foot
soldier - can transform into a queen, a powerless figure into the epitome
of power, a man into a woman.
Museum Ludwig
Bischofsgartenstr. 1 - Koln