11 September 2010 - 16 January 2011Real Presences
Marcel Broodthaers today Group showMarcel Broodthaers only lived for a relatively short time in Düsseldorf, nevertheless he produced important work during his stay here. From 1970 until 1972, the Belgian artist kept his studio in Düsseldorf's old town. His legendary exhibition "Section des Figures. Der Adler vom Oligozän bis heute" was shown at the Kunsthalle in 1971, the same year in which he exhibited the "Section Cinéma" of "Musée des Aigles" at his studio. In 1997 the Kunsthalle staged the posthumous exhibition "Cinéma", which focused upon Broodthaers‘ films. A thoroughly influential artist of his generation even during his lifetime, Marcel Broodthaers' work forms the focus for artists' attention and active engagement today. The undiminished contemporaneity of his œuvre has resulted in it being referenced in several other works engaging with his image theory and salient thematic elements of his oeuvre: the question of the museum as an institution, the preoccupation with imagination and appearance as the deconstruction on the cinematographic image, the relationship between language, written text and image. Indeed, considerations that would later be treated under the general rubric of institutional critique, also feature in Broodthaers' work, the radical and pioneering quality of which is unwavering. The joint exhibition staged by the Kunsthalle and the Kunstverein will feature selected works by internationally renowned artists, who have drawn inspiration from his œuvre and have adopted motifs from his work in the sense of a homage or further development. Contemporaneity is communicated here, in the sense of the Quadrennial's overall "art contemporary" theme, as a genealogy of the present and in a series of artworks that acknowledge, in their explicit references, their historical example and duly update it even though it is absent. Featuring: Tacita Dean, Olivier Foulon, Andreas Hofer, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Stephen Prina, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Susanne Winterling, Cerith Wyn Evans
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