Fridericianum
Kassel
Friedrichsplatz 18
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Two exhibitions
dal 2/4/2009 al 20/6/2009

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Christine Messerschmidt Communication


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Pawel Althamer
Micol Assael



 
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2/4/2009

Two exhibitions

Fridericianum, Kassel

Kassel's children are the protagonists and are the co-authors whom Pawel Althamer incorporates into his exhibition project Fruehling. His oeuvre ranges from sculptures and installations to video, performance, happening and barely perceptible artistic interventions in public space. Micol Assael combines strength, power and accomplishment with extreme delicacy and sensitivity. The Italian artist presents a machine she developed specifically for this exhibit, face to face with several hundred minimalist drawings.


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From April 4, 2009, Kunsthalle Fridericianum will not only be proverbially, but also literally, charged with energy. In his large exhibition Frühling, Pawel Althamer, together with many of Kassel’s children, will turn the museum into a different state of mind, while Micol Assaël, with her exhibition Fomuška, will actually electrify the place.


PAWEL ALTHAMER AND CHILDREN FROM KASSEL
Frühling

Twelve years after the Polish artist’s participation in documenta X, Kunsthalle Fridericianum presents the new exhibition project Frühling by Pawel Althamer. By turning over the rooms in the Kunsthalle to the discretion of the children, the artist gives its interior a transforming overhaul.

Intuition, emotion, spirituality, irrationality: all these are terms or definitions Pawel Althamer (born 1967 in Warsaw) uses to describe his works. His oeuvre ranges from sculptures and installations to video, performance, happening and barely perceptible artistic interventions in public space. Althamer’s work could also be seen as a social project.

Kassel’s children are the protagonists and are the co-authors whom Althamer incorporates into his new exhibition project Frühling. He invites them to transform their fantasy and “unbound creativity” into little and large on-the-spot projects. The Fridericianum, highly infused with historical events, with its past as a library and an educational institute as well as its longstanding tradition as an exhibition site, thus passes through a significant transformation. Project arena, playground and sports field, dance or music school—all of this together or none of the above, the artist doesn’t want to set any limits to the children’s imagination.

Opening: Friday 3 April 2009, 5 p.m.


MICOL ASSAËL
Fomuška

In her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Micol Assaël impressively combines strength, power and accomplishment with extreme delicacy and sensitivity. The young Italian artist will present a machine she developed specifically for the Fomuška exhibit face to face with several hundred minimalist drawings.

Micol Assaël’s artistic work is characterised by a profound fascination and passion for the laws and principles of physics and mathematics, for technology and industry, for machinery and motors.

Assaël, in intense collaboration with the Moscow University of Energetic, has put together for her solo exhibition Fomuška a large and enigmatic machine that will electrostatically charge a vast space of the Fridericianum. Bolts of lightning, colourful and zigzagging, will be discharged in large clouds of steam. The physical perception and senses of the visitors will be overwhelmed and confronted with the immateriality of electricity as well as with its natural and mysterious force.

This installation will be set up to contrast with 399 minimalist drawings from the artist’s early work, revealing a further insight into the diversity of her artistic means of expression and aesthetic perception.

Fomuška is realised in collaboration with Secession, Vienna and Museion, Bolzano.

Opening: Friday 3 April 2009, 7 p.m.

With the exhibitions by Althamer and Assaël the Kunsthalle follows a tradition. "Joseph Beuys' Honey Pump at the Workplace, his Free International University and his project 7000 Oaks, as well as the still present Earth Kilometre by Walter de Maria already charged the Fridericianum energetically", says Rein Wolfs, artistic director of the Kunsthalle. In the new programmatic focus of the Fridericianum both Fomuška and Frühling build two very important stations in the process of trying to formulate a contemporary "condition humaine"'.

In the rotunda of the Fridericianum the wall piece LESS OIL MORE COURAGE by Rirkrit Tiravanija can still be seen until 21 June 2009 and in the Roboter Marc Bijl has left a message for all of us quoting "OH GOD I LOVE THIS WORLD".

Image: Pawel Althamer, One of Many, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, 2007

Press contact
Christine Messerschmidt Communication
Tel. +49 561 7072786 Fax +49 561 7072775 messerschmidt@fridericianum-kassel.de

Kunsthalle Fridericianum
Friedrichsplatz 18 D-34117 Kassel
Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admissions
normal: 5 €
reduced*: 3 €
Groups**: 3 € per person
children up to the age of 12 have free access

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