Michael-Jackson-exhibition in Bonn: “We want to pull through”

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“Cultural history” will provide the Federal art hall in Bonn and opened by the controversial Michael Jackson Look “On the Wall”. From the recent controversy surrounding the Mega-pop star, will be largely.

Michael Jackson as a Golden calf? The sculptor Paul McCarthy oversized stylized Michael Jackson is the centre of the Bonn Show

A dark room leads into the realm of the “King of Pop”, the later most colourful Michael-Jackson-Exhibition in the bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.

Dimming was also the run-up to the exhibition “On the Wall”, which after London and Paris, now up to 14. To see July in Bonn. In view of the massive new abuse allegations against the 2009 late singer have a lot of reservations and Calls had become in the past few weeks, after a cancellation of the Show according to.

“No Tribute”

The no counter was rein Wolfs, Director of the Federal art and exhibition hall, on the day of the opening of the exhibition in front of the press representatives in Bonn, input “We want to pull”, to make the same clear: “this is not a tribute.” The exhibition homage to the artist or to the Person Michael Jackson, but interest in the phenomenon of Michael Jackson and for “the first global icon of the media age”.

Rein Wolfs, Director of the Federal art and exhibition hall

How vividly the picture responded at the end of art on this icon and you are so right ikonisierte, shows the Exhibition of 134 works by 53 artists. Since the Work of Andy Warhol, the portraits already in the early Jackson, the works of Keith Haring and Isa Genzken, David La Chapelles large-format triptych of “American Jesus”. An entire room is dedicated to Jackson as the first, so to speak, globalized Afro-American artists.

The context adapted

Director wolf explained: “We want to make cultural history.” A chronicler of the cultural history of the curator of the exhibition, the British art historian Nicholas Cullinan. For ten years, he says, research it on “the complexity of Michael Jackson”. “We can’t rewrite history,” says Cullinan in Bonn. “But we can.”

Michael Jackson as the Archangel Michael with David LaChapelle

The Federal art hall to the changed conditions by the supplementary wall texts of the invoice, address the allegations against Jackson. Moreover, contact partners are available to the visitors, with you on the abuse issue can replace. On 7. April, a day after the initial broadcast of the documentary film “Leaving Neverland” in Germany, held a panel discussion.

The broadcast of the film in the USA was the trigger for the worldwide attention because of new, serious abuse to be levied allegations against Jackson.