Martin Furtwängler. Core Collection
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Press tour: Friday, April 4, 2025, 11 a.m.
Vernissage: Friday, April 4, 2025, 7 pm
As a painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and bookmaker, Felix Martin Furtwängler is a wanderer between many artistic possibilities. His work has an enormous scope and has been shown in numerous exhibitions and published from their specific perspectives.
Whether panel painting, printmaking, book or object: Furtwängler's art stems from conditions that life writes, that inscribe themselves and find form in the pictures. They are veristic in the sense that they are unprotected and open. We do not see a clumsily depicted reality, but the sensitive reflection of our own experience in one of the most passionate visual languages to be found in contemporary German art.
Furtwängler's pictorial language - especially in his early work - is based on German Expressionism in terms of content and gesture. Although houses, streets and squares do not explode as in Ludwig Meidner's apocalyptic visions, the mood is anything but optimistic - rather abysmal, restrained - sometimes even subversive, refusing, philosophizing.
At the same time, the fragmentary nature provokes a work in sequences, an inventive confrontation, which Furtwängler conspicuously accumulates from the very beginning. His preferred technique is also the most resistant, printmaking, which he masters like almost no other artist in Germany. In addition to a penchant for thematic immersion, it is above all seriousness and humor that guarantee the continued ingenuity of this artistic strategy. Seriousness and humor guarantee the necessary transparency, especially where views are fed by insights. In addition to formal experiments, such as mixed techniques that virtuously disguise the process of their own creation, a comprehensively developed mastery of most printing techniques, it is always that high degree of authenticity that makes Furtwängler's visual language so striking.
The diversity and richness of his work have many facets. Furtwängler has the artistic strength and the necessary courage to shape opposing trends in his direction. This not only testifies to his inventiveness, but is also evidence of his mistrust of the final form, of a final truth that does not exist even in art.
Our exhibition will primarily show drawings, prints, book art and paintings. Many of the exhibited works will be shown for the first time and will also be enriched by works from our collection.
The catalog establishes the connection to Jena's intellectual history, discusses works from the collection and presents the diversity and relevance of the artist's work.
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