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25/5/2002

Painting on the move

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel

I. A Century of Contemporary Painting (1900-2000)
Painting is the most important medium of 20th-century visual art. This is where artistic trends, contradictions and diversity take their most visible, violent and subtle form. Selected works from the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel and major loans from international museums and private collections open up broad, exciting vistas. Viewers can experience first-hand the incredible density, dynamics, indeed drama of the painterly questioning of the world, the painterly invention of the world, from the beginning of the 20th century to the dawn of the new millennium.

Each painting in the expanse of rooms reserved for the exhibition represents certain artistic innovations in the traditional-laden medium. Displayed in a loosely knit chronology and with shifting points of view, this dialogic array of works visualises a continuous process, rather than presenting a linear record of art history. Through their juxtaposition and sequence, the paintings reveal discontinuities and contrapositions, but also fluid transitions, uniting the seemingly irreconcilable in new syntheses and visual experiences.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Basel

II. There Is No Final Picture - Painting after 1968
Already prior to, but especially after 1968, the death of painting was repeatedly proclaimed. But it never happened. In fact the myth of the demise of painting, the allegation that it is antiquated and even reactionary, merely provoked artists to answer back by exploring new dimensions of painting. In some cases, concentration on the medium itself prevails as in the work of Robert Ryman; for other artists like Andy Warhol, the mediated counter-image provides the stimulus, and for still others a calculated irony comes into play as with Sigmar Polke.

Further works by Daniel Buren, Jörg Immendorff, Olivier Mosset, On Kawara and Gerhard Richter will serve as points of crystallisation. The main focus, however, is on larger groups of work by such artists as John Armleder, Herbert Brandl, Raoul de Keyser, Günther Förg, Bernard Frize, Gary Hume, Martin Kippenberger, Renée Levi, Sherrie Levine, Laura Owens, Adrian Schiess and Luc Tuymans, which demonstrate how painting has found new dynamic paths between abstraction and realism, intellectual concept and direct sensuality.

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Kunsthalle Basel

III. After Reality - Realism and Current Painting
The modern treatment of pictures was marked by the rivalry between painting and photography, and this dialogue is apparently still in progress. Until very recently the belief still held sway that the practice of photography had nullified the need for verisimilitude in painting, that painting could at best reflect on the photographic image and on the picture in general; the direct representation of reality seemed to have been definitively banned from painting.

We now observe how intensely young artists are probing the painted representation of reality through their study of photography and the electronic images generated by the new media. New concepts of realistic art are beginning to emerge. The exhibition in the Kunsthalle shows current positions of 23 artists, including Chuck Close, Tim Gardner, Antje Majewski, Lucie McKenzie, Sarah Morris, Wilhelm Sasnal and Xie Nanxing.

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Catalog
Stiftung Patronatskomitee Kunstmuseum Basel

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Kunstmuseum Basel
St. Alban-Graben 16
CH-4010 Basel
Tel. +41 (0)61 206 62 62
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Führungen +41 (0)61 206 62 42
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Museum für
Gegenwartskunst Basel
St. Alban Rheinweg 60
CH-4010 Basel
Tel. +41 (0)61 206 62 62
Info.-Tel. +41 (0)61 206 62 32
Führungen +41 (0)61 206 62 42
Fax +41 (0)61 206 62 53
http://www.mgkbasel.ch
Di, Do-So 11-17, Mi
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Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7
CH-4051 Basel
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