Faszination 19. Jahrhundert. Sven Drühl: Künstler — Sammler — Theoretiker
In the organizer's words:
In its anniversary year, the Museum Wiesbaden is showing works by the Berlin artist Sven Drühl (* 1968 Nassau/Lahn; lives and works in Berlin), who has been working in the context of conceptual landscape art for over twenty years.
The exhibition "Fascination 19th Century, Artist - Collector - Theorist" shows around 35 works by Sven Drühl, some of them very large-format, mainly from the years 2018 to 2025 from three different series.
Sven Drühl studied art and mathematics in the 1990s at the height of the postmodern debate in the art context. This is precisely where his artistic basis lies, although the development does not end with postmodernism; since the 2000s at the latest, we have been talking about metamodernism, or post-postmodernism, so to speak. Drühl sees recourse to the artistic achievements of modernism and postmodernism as an opportunity to develop a new style, a new metamodern visual language.
The themes that the artist repeatedly circles around in his works include cultural and media transfer, originality, authorship, quotation, remix, seriality, but also interference with nature and changes to the concept of landscape.
With the works from the silicone series, Drühl has been referring to works of art by other artists for over 20 years. They are pictures about pictures, second-order abstractions. Using a special technique of oil paint and silicone lineatures, the artist paints landscape motifs that place all models, whether from Romanticism or from the context of contemporary art, in Drühl's recognizable style. With his artistic approach, Drühl pursues a re-evaluation and re-positioning in the sense of a remix.
The second focus of the exhibition is on the works in the lacquer series, which represents something of an inversion of the conceptual approach of the remix paintings. With the lacquer paintings, Drühl reverses the view. He no longer refers to art-historical models such as paintings by Janus La Cour or Caspar David Friedrich (i.e. paintings that are themselves based on a view of nature). Instead, Drühl now uses virtual templates as the source material for his paintings, which he extracts from the texture backgrounds of computed worlds, such as those used in the gaming industry. Drühl translates special vector files into extremely realistic-looking paintings. The result is landscape paintings that usually no longer refer to a real landscape, but consist of set pieces generated by mouse click.
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Price information:
12,- Euro (reduced: 9,- Euro) / Free admission for children and young people under 18 years. / Groups of 15 persons or more: 9 euros per person / Admission to the special exhibitions includes the permanent exhibitions.
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