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| HERBARIUM DER BLICKE | |
Herbarium der Blicke
Selection of Works by Members of Deutscher Künstlerbund
(Artists Association of Germany)
4 April - 29 June 2003
| In its exhibition "Herbarium
der Blicke", the Deutscher Künstlerbund, founded in 1903,
gives a profound overview of the artworks of its new members of the
past four years. 40 of 100 newly recruited artists will present their
works to the public. The Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland is closely connected to the Deutsche Künstlerbund and in its function as an exhibition space an indication for the significance of the artists' community of the Rhineland. |
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| From the attendance alone, it is to
be expected to see a wide range of contrasting as well as corresponding
positions. The main subject of the exhibition "Herbarium der
Blicke" is the relationship of art and nature. Especially the
process-oriented impetus of the artworks comes to the fore. The selection of the participating artists as well as of the art works took place along these criteria. Art - Nature - Process The curators of the exhibition - Camill Leberer, Andrea Ostermeyer, Judith Samen and Helmut Schweizer who are themselves members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund - chose the title "Herbarium der Blicke" for describing the order of positions and viewpoints. The exhibition itself organizes, inspects, shows and archives the view of all participating artists. At the same time, the word 'herbarium' makes associations to the plant world. This exhibition understands "plant world-nature world" not only in the sense of reproduction but also in the sense of the development of an artwork and its inherent processes. The concept of the exhibition bases on thinking in gaps, in remote spaces, in utopias and combines the single works on a subtle but at the same time fundamental way - by focussing on the process-oriented manner of artworks. The exhibition structure To fulfil the conditions of a complex exhibition structure, the curators developed a concept that bases on two pillars that define the spatial as well as the theoretical dramaturgy. The first part concentrates on the medium drawing. The second part of the exhibition shows single presentations of sculpture, painting, photography, video and installation of 14 selected artists. The first part: the drawings The drawing is to be seen as the fundamental artistic medium. It stands for the most immediate artistic appropriation of reality and is at the same time the first form of transforming this appropriation into subjective inner rooms. A drawing can be used for preparation, for comprehension or can stand for itself - it is always the direct mirror of the artistic position. For a drawing, the remote and the individual are more important than a strategy. This medium knows roundabouts but doesn't know short cuts. Its self-evidence bases on a deep belief in the visual and in the credibility of visual worlds. The second part: works in other forms of expression The presented works of sculpture, painting, photography, video and installation are associatively and structural connected to the drawings. This means that an artwork can be presented analogue to natural processes because of its formal structure, can take up nature directly or can choose closeness or distance towards nature as its theoretical starting position. |
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| Supported by: Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen Kulturstiftung der Länder |
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