Giacometti - Nauman 2016 Frankfurt - Esther Schlicht
KORTE INHOUD
Zwei Künstler, zwei Generationen und eine denkbar unterschiedliche Herkunft: Die SCHIRN widmet den überraschenden und bislang weitgehend übersehenen Verbindungen im Werk von Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) und Bruce Nauman (*1941) eine umfassende Ausstellung. Zeichnungen, Fotografien, Videos, Skulpturen und raumgreifende Installationen des US-amerikanischen Multimediakünstlers treten mit ausgewählten Skulpturen und Gemälden des Schweizer Bildhauers in einen spannungsvollen Dialog. 00Exhibition: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (28.10.2016-22.01.2017).
"Jean-Paul Sartre said that Giacometti's figures often become 'so fully real that they can be as positive and unforgettable as a physical blow.' Bruce Nauman once remarked that he wanted to make art that affects people 'like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Or better, like getting hit in the back of the neck.' As everyone surely knows, a blow with a fist or to the neck is most effective when it is unexpected, when it comes out of nowhere, so to spe...
"Jean-Paul Sartre said that Giacometti's figures often become 'so fully real that they can be as positive and unforgettable as a physical blow.' Bruce Nauman once remarked that he wanted to make art that affects people 'like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Or better, like getting hit in the back of the neck.' As everyone surely knows, a blow with a fist or to the neck is most effective when it is unexpected, when it comes out of nowhere, so to spe...
