MACBA at Frankfurter Kunstverein
dal 8/10/2007 al 12/1/2008
Segnalato da
8/10/2007
MACBA at Frankfurter Kunstverein
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
A selection of works from the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The exhibition represents an unusual experiment: an art society hosting the collection of a museum. On display works from the 1950s to the present, beginning with the early avant-gardes and the advent of photography and film, such as the cinematic works of Pere Portabella. The works by Marcel Broodthaers and others heralding the expansion of conceptual art explore models for understanding reality, the crisis regarding the artist's role and the debate on the nature of art.
A selection of works from the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
curated by Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Chus Martinez
On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2007 with the Catalan Culture as guest of
honour, the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
(MACBA) are proud to announce a joint curate exhibition of works from the MACBA
collection.
The present exhibition represents an unusual experiment: An art society hosting the
collection of a museum. The two institutions involved -- MACBA, the Contemporary Art
Museum of the city of Barcelona, and the Frankfurter Kunstverein -- have very
different scales and functions: An art society is an institution dedicated to a
dialogue with the present in order to predict art's future, while the museum attends
to define present history in a dialogue with the past. However, one mission is
shared, namely the investigation of the forces that shape and limit the interplay of
art and society.
MACBA at Frankfurter Kunstverein" is a careful selection of works from
the MACBA collection that shows how a diversity of works can approach questions
existing at the core of a community. Questions, probed by the art works, such as:
What is the nature of the agency necessary to make cultural participation possible?
How can an entity, such as a collection of modern and contemporary art, engage in
the construction of political identities? How is the notion of aesthetics to be
extended towards the social body? A large number of the works presented at the
Frankfurter Kunstverein are thus directly concerned with the notion of the
collection as a resource to depart from in order to gain a voice. All the works in
the exhibition 'talk', but in order to talk they need to struggle, amongst each
other and with disciplinary boundaries.
The exhibition features works from the entire period covered by the MACBA Collection
from the 1950s to the present, beginning with the early avant-gardes and the advent
of photography and film, such as the cinematic works of Pere Portabella. The works
by Marcel Broodthaers and others heralding the expansion
of conceptual art explore models for understanding reality, the crisis regarding the
artist’s role and the debate on the nature of art. The modern paradigm based on
visuality was transformed in the 1970s, when artwork became a relational object. As
a result, the study-presentation-contemplation triangle, which had been
the classical model for representing the relationship between the museum and the
public, was replaced by another: event-activity-discussion.
The Frankfurter Kunstverein is delighted to host the MACBA collection, thus enabling
a visual, discursive and energetic art dialogue.
Catalogue: An English, German and Catalan reader edited by Revolver Frankfurt will
accompany the exhibition, which will feature texts by Manuel J. Borja-Villel and
Chus Martinez as well as Charles Esche, Brian Holmes, Lars Bang Larsen,
Jacques Ranciere and Irit Rogoff.
In the context of the exhibition a series of events and conferences will take place
and will be shortly announced.
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Steinernes Am Romerberg - Frankfurt
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 am-7 pm