Two exhibitions
dal 28/10/2008 al 7/2/2009
Segnalato da
28/10/2008
Two exhibitions
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
A journey through the fascinating Klee Universe. Embracing all stages of his creative development, the exhibition brings to life the visionary-poetic world of Paul Klee's art in all its thematic facets, illuminating the unique way in which the artist fused the abstract and the figurative. A show with some 250 worksby the artist, and an analysis of his relationship with artists of his time, among them Ensor, van Gogh, Kubin, Kandinsky, Marc, and Picasso. Jeff Koons will put on display the glistening giant sculptures from his famous series "Celebration", which he has been working on since the early 1990s and which instantly strike one as magnified children's toys or giant gift items.
Curators
Prof. Dr. Peter-Klaus Schuster
Dr. Dieter Scholz
Dr. Christina Thomson
The Klee Universe
Paul Klee, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was the creator of a highly individual yet at once universal pictorial language. As early as 1901, he knew that he wanted to "become a good artist." And by 1906 he noted in his diary: "All will be Klee." In strategic pursuit of these aims, in 1911 Klee began to meticulously chronicle his works in a catalogue. By the time he died, this was to contain over 9000 items.
The Nationalgalerie has now dedicated a major exhibition to Paul Klee, inviting you to embark on a journey through the fascinating Klee Universe. Embracing all stages of his creative development, the exhibition brings to life the visionary-poetic world of Klee's art in all its thematic facets, illuminating the unique way in which the artist fused the abstract and the figurative.
A central room of the exhibition looks at the analysis of Paul Klee's relationship with ten of the most important artists of his time, among them Ensor, van Gogh, Kubin, Kandinsky, Marc, and Picasso. In the surrounding exhibition space, ‘The Klee Universe' unfolds. In the manner of a Baroque emblem book, the exhibition covers the aspects of life which Klee, in his capacity as the encyclopaedist of an entire cosmos, chose to capture in his art. Klee's universe is centred around the human individual. Birth, childhood and youth are as much part of this as Eros and the world of mothers and fathers. Sections on interiors and architecture take a look at forms and objects created by man; while nature appears in images of plants, animals, and landscapes. Culture is expressed in music, theatre, script, and religion. Finally, dark and destructive forces appear in the shape of war, fear, and death. Klee's cosmos proves a universal cycle of ideas and images, an Orbis Pictus, through which the artist seeks to grasp, interpret and encrypt the world all at the same time.
With ‘The Klee Universe', comprising some 250 works, the Nationalgalerie undertakes the first comprehensive Klee retrospective in Berlin since the exhibition of his work at the Kronprinzenpalais exactly 85 years ago.
http://www.kleeinberlin.org
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Jeff Koons. Celebration
Jeff Koons is rated as one of most successful artists of the present day. And he is surely one of the few living artists who largely owes his popularity to the cult he has systematically built up around his own personality: the way he presents himself in and through pictures has time and again proved to be an essential component of his artistic work.
Jeff Koons works with the garish, loud and colourful, as well as with the playful and kitschy, while at the same clearly positing himself in art historical traditions. By doing so he draws on two of the most important artists of the modern day - Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol - as well as on the language of forms and theory of composition of the Baroque and Rococo.
Jeff Koons' art installation in the upper hall of the New National Gallery will prove to be a spectacular performance from this prominent contemporary artist. Koons will put on display the glistening giant sculptures from his famous ‘Celebration' series, which he has been working on since the early 1990s and which instantly strike one as magnified children's toys or giant gift items. And so Jeff Koons' exhibits will take their place in a long line of impressive artist installations in the upper hall of the New National Gallery, as seen most recently for example by those on show by Jörg Immendorff (in 2005) and Jannis Kounellis (in 2007).
http://www.koonsinberlin.org
A National Gallery Exhibition, made possible by the Friends of the National Gallery, supported by E.ON
Image: Hanging Heart Violet high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating and yellow brass
106 x 85 x 40 inches 269.2 x 215.9 x 101.6 cm 5 unique versions (Red/Gold, Magenta/Gold, Silver/Blue,Violet/Gold, Gold/Red) 1994-2006 © Jeff Koons 2008
Pressebüro Ausstellung
Dr. Katharina von Chlebowski T +49 30 26394880 presse@koonsinberlin.org
Theresa Lucius F +49 30 263948811 presse@kleeinberlin.org
29.10.2008
Opening Press conference of the exhibitions “Jeff Koons. Celebration” and “The Klee Universe”
Admission from 9:30 am
Start at 10 am
Mi 29.10.2008, 10 Uhr,
in der Neuen Nationalgalerie,
Potsdamer Str. 50, 10785 Berlin
Opening Hours
Mon closed
Tue 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wed 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thu 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Fri 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sat 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sun 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.