Art
The home as a Selfie
Tell me how You live and I’ll tell You who You are. Living is a great art. This is an exhibition in Leverkusen, Germany, under proof. It shows the interior as a portrait of the resident.
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Schöner Wohnen as yearning
Like no other furniture store it is understood Ikea, the ideal home stage. The artist Miriam Bäcktröm created in 1999, a series of photographs for the company’s Museum. They show how Living at Ikea from the fifties up to the Nineties has developed. The rooms feel such as a theater, the individuality suggest, but actually the opposite of it.
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In The Realm In Between
What is actually the Parking Garage for a space? For some it is merely a passage into the house, for others a storage room for the car. Mostly, however, remains still room for items that are not worth it, with into the home to be taken. The Garage forms a grey area of living. Simone Demandt has her series “joy of life” recorded in 2001.
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Circle of living
Sperrmüllhaufen serve Ralf Schulz as raw material for his series “reconstruction of unknown interiors”. For his photographs, he arranges the rooms Ausrangiertem: From the used junk he found on the road, he creates realistic new spaces in his Studio. He photographed and destroyed them again – with an axe whips it to the artificial worlds in the home.
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American Lifestyle
The Pop Art artist Roy Lichtenstein dedicated this image to the American Way of Life. It breaks the desire for the perfect home to a common denominator, download: The template he found in the Yellow pages. Falls out of the frame, nothing – except the abstract painting on the wall, with the Lichtenstein, a small disturbance in the Wohnidylle fittings.
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Floral Fantasy
Andreas Schulze has a work of art is created, in which nature and culture collide. On the walls penetrates the dense Smoke from the exhaust pipes on the table are vases (in the shape of the head of Andreas Schulze), from which flowers sprout. The table disappears almost in this universe which is anything but a homely retreat.
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Living as a self-promotion
A certain decadence sprayed the room, the artist, Alastair is dedicated. A draughtsman, and Illustrator, as a white Ghost this artificial space is occupied. Claus Richter arranged the perfect room with the black carpet and full of small birds, which are caught on rods and aviaries. As well as its inhabitants can’t escape.
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Schöner Wohnen as yearning
Like no other furniture store it is understood Ikea, the ideal home stage. The artist Miriam Bäcktröm created in 1999, a series of photographs for the company’s Museum. They show how Living at Ikea from the fifties up to the Nineties has developed. The rooms feel such as a theater, the individuality suggest, but actually the opposite of it.
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In The Realm In Between
What is actually the Parking Garage for a space? For some it is merely a passage into the house, for others a storage room for the car. Mostly, however, remains still room for items that are not worth it, with into the home to be taken. The Garage forms a grey area of living. Simone Demandt has her series “joy of life” recorded in 2001.
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Circle of living
Sperrmüllhaufen serve Ralf Schulz as raw material for his series “reconstruction of unknown interiors”. For his photographs, he arranges the rooms Ausrangiertem: From the used junk he found on the road, he creates realistic new spaces in his Studio. He photographed and destroyed them again – with an axe whips it to the artificial worlds in the home.
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American Lifestyle
The Pop Art artist Roy Lichtenstein dedicated this image to the American Way of Life. It breaks the desire for the perfect home to a common denominator, download: The template he found in the Yellow pages. Falls out of the frame, nothing – except the abstract painting on the wall, with the Lichtenstein, a small disturbance in the Wohnidylle fittings.
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Floral Fantasy
Andreas Schulze has a work of art is created, in which nature and culture collide. On the walls penetrates the dense Smoke from the exhaust pipes on the table are vases (in the shape of the head of Andreas Schulze), from which flowers sprout. The table disappears almost in this universe which is anything but a homely retreat.
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Living as a self-promotion
A certain decadence sprayed the room, the artist, Alastair is dedicated. A draughtsman, and Illustrator, as a white Ghost this artificial space is occupied. Claus Richter arranged the perfect room with the black carpet and full of small birds, which are caught on rods and aviaries. As well as its inhabitants can’t escape.
The apartment is the business card of the Sedentary. Before some years, the furniture store Ikea, with a Slogan of the lifestyle of the outgoing 20. Century to describe: “do You still Live or do You live already?”. The furniture met the nail on the head, because more and more people are investing astronomical sums for kitchens, bathroom faucets and Sofas. Just to beautiful to live. Only to yourself in your home to realize.
Schloss Morsbroich as a foil for Wohnsehnsüchte
No place could better fit to the representative power of this longing to explore as the Baroque
Schloss Morsbroich in Leverkusen
. It has a hall of mirrors, a lot of decoration on the ceiling, and a wood-panelled hunting room. Curator Fritz Emslander says that many of the artists who in the past happened, dreamed, at the Schloss Morsbroich to live, and this desire through artistic interventions visible made. That, too, was for him an inspiration, the development of Housing for self-promotion in the art on the bottom of it.
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The apartment as a status symbol
With a growing prosperity has been setting up more and more of a question of prestige. Our Living and the search for the right Live has changed, I with a societal change to do so Emslander, of the from Living as “Breitenphänomen” speaks. A part of the creators of Ikea, whose half-yearly appearing catalog of cult status. Miriam Backström photographed in 1999 for the company’s own Museum, the interiors of the Möbelriesen – from the fifties to the Eighties.
To see are cosy, tastefully furnished rooms, armchair, attractive colours, creating a warm atmosphere. Impressively illustrated series, such as perfect spaces for the perfect family: happy, family, many children. The photos are deserted and look like film sets, just waiting for your protagonists to feel comfortable there. The decor is a mix of global finished product and cocoon has become, everywhere in the world arbitrary and interchangeable – allowing you the opposite of individual self-realization.
Live draws in the Museum
What is new is the subject of “Living” in contemporary art is not. At regular intervals there were in the past few years exhibitions. The Exhibition “Revealing Spaces. The interior itself as a portrait” in the Schloss Morsbroich in Leverkursen presents artistic approaches to the topic in a carefully arranged rooms next to each other and follows the motto: The inventory speaks of its inhabitants, your Self and your world.
“Pattern of Habit”: Installation by Andrea Zittel
The artist Shannon Bool is to show that our desire for the fusion of Inner and outer world, the oneness with the cosmos, is deep-rooted. She paints the rooms of psychoanalysts, in which women on Couches to sit or lie. Your body of substances covered – so you will even to Design objects for the voyeuristic projection screen of the viewer. In the drawings and photographs of Anna and Bernhard Blume to develop the furniture of her private life and bring the residents in distress. They squeeze and displace you even.
Also in the Garage shows the ” I ” of the resident
Simone Demand can feel a between of living on: the Garage. Deserted rooms where the hoarding is, what is not value is, in the house to get a place. They show the downside of living: the place that is nothing Special anymore, wants to be.
Ralf Schulz’ series “reconstruction of unknown interiors” is an Arrangement of Ausrangiertem: First, he created a photographic archive of his found objects – chairs, desks, Sofas. Then he built from the junk realistic new spaces in his Studio. Thus preserved it from a single Sperrmüllhaufen the past of the former owner. And it reflects the cycle of living, in which people obsessively following the Wundermöbel search, the your apartment to a portrait of their own power, to the Selfie, which is different from the others.