Spectacular V
dal 7/11/2003 al 8/11/2003
Segnalato da
7/11/2003
Spectacular V
Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
For the last section of Spectacular German artist Carsten Höller will set up a guided tour through the collection of the museum kunst palast (conducted by a regular museum guide) for which the visitors will wear specially designed Upside-Down Glasses.
The Art of Action
A Program On Performance And The Art Institution
Carsten Höller
November 8, 2003 6 PM
Followed by a conversation between the artist and Jens Hoffmann
For the last section of SPECTACULAR German artist Carsten Höller will set
up a guided tour through the collection of the museum kunst palast
(conducted by a regular museum guide) for which the visitors will wear
specially designed Upside-Down Glasses.
With this project Höller follows
one of his primary artistic concerns, the alteration of the perpetual
world and the spreading of doubts.
By handing out eyeglasses to the
audience that invert the visual field of view, various types of optical
transformation such as inversion, displacement, reversal, magnification
and scrambling occur that will foster a severely different notion of
perceiving the world around us.
The artist encourages us to take nothing
for granted and to doubt and mistrust what we have gotten to know as
reality.
His aim is to show we should not try to achieve any kind of
certainty about what, where and who we are as the world could also, at any
given moment, be very different from what it appears to be.
museum kunst palast
Ehrenhof 4-5
40479 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 211 8922460