HOW TO LOOK AT ...
In the organizer's words:
Hans Aichinger, Rozbeh Asmani, Sven Braun, Sebastian Burger, Wolfram Ebersbach, Jörg Ernert, Henriette Grahnert, Falk Haberkorn, Anna Haifisch, Franz Jyrch, Yvette Kießling, Corinne von Lebusa, Moritz Schleime, Julia Schmidt, Anija Seedler, Stefan Stößel, Matthias Weischer
In his famous essay "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility" (1935), the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) asked about the change in our perception brought about by new image technologies such as photography and film, stating: "The apparatus-free aspect of reality has here become its most artificial and the sight of immediate reality has become a blue flower in the land of technology." With the "blue flower", he took from Romanticism its strongest symbol for the longing for knowledge. He pointed out that seeing is shaped by both media models and visualization techniques to such an extent that we have to ask ourselves whether we are really seeing what is in front of our eyes or whether we are merely seeing our visual expectations confirmed. For example, we often want to enjoy the sight of nature in order to be touched by something real. But is it not precisely in these moments that we encounter the landscape with expectations trained on media motifs - and overlook what is in front of us? When do we take a closer look and discover something new in our everyday lives, which are dominated by visual communication?
This exhibition is an invitation to take a closer look at the example of painting, an art form that is often considered outmoded in terms of capturing the contemporary, media-permeated world. It brings together works by 17 artists whose work is closely linked to Leipzig and provides an insight into the diversity of contemporary painting. It ranges from narrative motifs and landscapes to more abstract and expressive forms of expression and deceptive realism. Art-historical models are sometimes more, sometimes less, evident. Not infrequently, the fundamentals of image-making itself and the comparison with competing image media are the subject of artistic reflection. The exhibition includes a number of works from other genres that continue these questions.
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6 € regular / 3 € reduced
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