Opening 11 February 2011 at 7 pm
Exhibition from 12 February 2011 to 27 March 2011
The exhibition "Fictional Artists" presents 14 artists of the 20 th and 21 st centuries whose lives have been described in fictional works such as novels, narratives and theater plays. They have been singled out because their biographies embody tendencies and artistic norms that have been characteristic for the past hundred years. Take Pietro, for example, a young man of a bourgeois family who joins the agitations of 68 and can escape social restraints only through radical art forms. Or Antártido A. Garay who exhibits daring conceptual art in the Buenos Aires of 1920 which nobody understands. Each character personifies a specific, often exaggerated type of artist. And just like in any art scene, do the smart gallery owner, the scandal awaiting press and the overstrained visitor also exist in the imagined one. All of them together give insight into writers' conceptions about artists and their environment predominant at a certain time. By means of diverse material, like documentary pictures, and press reports, the exposition tries to disclose what might have inspired the authors' ideas. The show offers the opportunity to discover a parallel art world which functions as a mirror to the real history of art and whose protagonists have already been waiting too long for a retrospective of this kind.
The exhibition will be presented in the studio (basement).
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Fri 11.02.2011 | 19.00 | Opening "Fictional Artists". Reception: Selini Andres. Introduction: Susana Sáez.
Sat 12.02.2011 | 12.00 | Lecture and presentation of pictures by Koen Brahms, director of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht about his project and publication "Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists" (English).
Sun 27.02.2011 | 15.00 | Guided exposition tour with Susana Sáez
Sat 13.03.2011 | 15.00 | Guided exposition tour with Johan Holten
Sun 27.02.2011 | 14.00 | Kasper Holten, Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen presents his opera movie "Juan" first shown in Hamburg in 2010. The film adapts the opera "Don Giovanni" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the modern metropolis. Internationally reknown opera stars, like Christopher Maltmann, Maria Bengtsson, and Mikhail Petrenko present the production which is solely determined by singing and does without spoken dialogue. Venue: Cinema Karlstorbahnhof.
Christoph Girardet & Volker Schreiner
Christoph Girardet & Volker Schreiner
Frame programme | Kasper Holten
Friederike von Rauch, Knokke 27, 2009, Pigmentprint auf
Hahnemühle Büttenpapier, montiert auf Aluminium,
50 x 50 cm, Courtesy KUNSTAGENTEN, Berlin