According to the WWF Report, people at a fast pace, ruin the nature. 60% of vertebrates have become extinct since 1970. Also an artist, the change has. A Show in Frankfurt, traces the dream of Wilderness.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Richard Long, Sand Line, Egypt (2003)
The British land artist Richard Long (Jg. 1945) works a lot in the outdoors. Materials that he finds, he puts to abstract floor sculptures. With fondness, he works with stones and boulders. Works by him are also to be seen in museums and collections. Here is a color photograph of natural rock formations, which he recorded in a desert in Egypt.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Pieter Hugo, Abu Kikan with Frayo (2007)
The picture was taken in Nigeria: an everyday snapshot, at a market in Asaba. You know the story behind this picture. The digital C-Print is a photographic work by Pieter Hugo (Jg. 1976). The South African artist is concerned with Africa as a continent of extreme contrasts. Many of his Works have become icons of civilization criticism.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Julian Charriére, Metamorphism (2016)
The title of this small sculpture that stands on a Pedestal under a glass case in the exhibition, could also be “I was once a Computer”. The Swiss Artist (Jg. 1987) works with artificial Lava, which he formed with a small piece of computer scrap sculptures. “We have lost the understanding of the natural world,” says Charriére, who considers himself as a cultural archaeologist.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Gerhard Richter, The Himalayas (1968)
The German painter Gerhard Richter was attracted to in the beginning of his career in West Germany, from motives of original nature. Although he had never made a mountain expedition, was fascinated by him deserted, rugged mountain worlds. The contrasts of light and shadow that attracted him. For his “Himalaya”-go back to Work, he photographs and further developed the motifs on the canvas.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Joachim Koester, The forest of Bialowicza (2001)
A normal forest, something wild, inconspicuous. And yet, these large format colour photographs Eerie. Joachim Koester (Jg. 1962), born in Denmark, travels for his Work all around Europe. Here in the border area between Poland and Belarus, he has photographed the oldest and the last primeval forest in Europe – used to be a bloody battlefield in the Second world war.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Henri Rousseau, The hungry lion throws itself on the antelope (1898-1905)
As the famous painting by the French painter Henri Rousseau was first exhibited in the autumn salon in Paris, hung the pictures of the controversial artist group “Le Fauves” (Wild animals) right next to it. A scandal: was Rousseau as a naive dismissed, the young and Wild, including Matisse, wrote with their images in art history. Here the image is placed in the exhibition.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
“Making of” of an exhibition
The placement of the Work is always a Gamble. Each work develops on site of their presence, some of them can only be used as a single piece. The installation by Mark Dion around needed a lot of space in order to develop their visual effect. A successful exhibition: “Wilderness” at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is still up to 3. To see February 2019.
Author: Heike Mouth
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Richard Long, Sand Line, Egypt (2003)
The British land artist Richard Long (Jg. 1945) works a lot in the outdoors. Materials that he finds, he puts to abstract floor sculptures. With fondness, he works with stones and boulders. Works by him are also to be seen in museums and collections. Here is a color photograph of natural rock formations, which he recorded in a desert in Egypt.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Pieter Hugo, Abu Kikan with Frayo (2007)
The picture was taken in Nigeria: an everyday snapshot, at a market in Asaba. You know the story behind this picture. The digital C-Print is a photographic work by Pieter Hugo (Jg. 1976). The South African artist is concerned with Africa as a continent of extreme contrasts. Many of his Works have become icons of civilization criticism.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Julian Charriére, Metamorphism (2016)
The title of this small sculpture that stands on a Pedestal under a glass case in the exhibition, could also be “I was once a Computer”. The Swiss Artist (Jg. 1987) works with artificial Lava, which he formed with a small piece of computer scrap sculptures. “We have lost the understanding of the natural world,” says Charriére, who considers himself as a cultural archaeologist.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Gerhard Richter, The Himalayas (1968)
The German painter Gerhard Richter was attracted to in the beginning of his career in West Germany, from motives of original nature. Although he had never made a mountain expedition, was fascinated by him deserted, rugged mountain worlds. The contrasts of light and shadow that attracted him. For his “Himalaya”-go back to Work, he photographs and further developed the motifs on the canvas.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Joachim Koester, The forest of Bialowicza (2001)
A normal forest, something wild, inconspicuous. And yet, these large format colour photographs Eerie. Joachim Koester (Jg. 1962), born in Denmark, travels for his Work all around Europe. Here in the border area between Poland and Belarus, he has photographed the oldest and the last primeval forest in Europe – used to be a bloody battlefield in the Second world war.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
Henri Rousseau, The hungry lion throws itself on the antelope (1898-1905)
As the famous painting by the French painter Henri Rousseau was first exhibited in the autumn salon in Paris, hung the pictures of the controversial artist group “Le Fauves” (Wild animals) right next to it. A scandal: was Rousseau as a naive dismissed, the young and Wild, including Matisse, wrote with their images in art history. Here the image is placed in the exhibition.
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Strong exhibition in the Schirn Frankfurt: the fascination of the Wilderness
“Making of” of an exhibition
The placement of the Work is always a Gamble. Each work develops on site of their presence, some of them can only be used as a single piece. The installation by Mark Dion around needed a lot of space in order to develop their visual effect. A successful exhibition: “Wilderness” at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is still up to 3. To see February 2019.
Author: Heike Mouth
The untouched nature in the 21st century. Century only as a historical term. Researchers have long attested, that worldwide, there is hardly a spot on earth that is not touched by the civilization and the people and influences. Not always for the Good. Reserves and nature conservation areas seek to preserve remnants of the unspoiled, and the “Wilderness” of nature.
This contradiction and tension between civilization and nature, the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle dedicates its current exhibition, “Wilderness”, in which you aufblättert the centuries-long fascination of painters and photographers: from classical painting to photography, AI-driven computer simulations of “nature”.
Utopias of originality
The longing for authenticity, originality of nature have risen in the decades of industrialization, strong, says Philipp Demandt, Director of the Schirn Kunsthalle. The untouched or re-provided “Wilderness” is a counter-image to our today’s “überkontroll” world. The reality appears to be round-the-clock media available: video surveillance, weather satellites and Google Maps.
The exhibition’s curator Esther Schlicht
And yet, these images show only the illusions that have lost all sensuality. With the current exhibition, “Wilderness” represents the art of questions to the visitors and to the team of Curators that go beyond the narrow confines of the Museum, and the company of critical and environmental issues, explains Demandt.
34 works of very different artists, selected by curator and project Director, Esther Schlicht, travelled to the USA, Africa and across Europe, to find the exhibits for this ambitious exhibition. Presents art from several centuries, from 1875 to today – with art-historical Work, which often seem amazingly up to date and modern.
Picturesque Photography
The impressive silver print photographs of the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins, for example, has banned 1865/66, the pristine landscape of Yosemite Valley in California on the imaging plate, are about to see. For his expeditions, the photographer with a whole entourage of helpers and suitcases had to climb full of glass imaging plates to the height of the trains.
With amazing Depth of field, these photographs of a time tell far before the Boom in neighboring Silicon Valley, and the reclamation of the landscape resources. The computer group Apple has one of its operating systems “Yosemite” and offers a photo of the rugged California mountain landscape as a screen saver.
Mark Dion, Mobile Wildernesss Unit (2006)
As a historical term Wilderness had been “occupied” for long negative, says art hall, Director Demandt, they have been considered as “dark and dangerous”. High mountains, rugged rocks, the dark forests, the waterfalls were common motifs in art. In the romance of the late 19th century. Century was the beauty of nature and the natural longing of the people in the foreground, played such motives. But also the painter Gerhard Richter in the 1960s intensively with this Subject.
Wilderness as a place of Inspiration
The artists of the present have a different approach. Among the contemporary Works on view at the Schirn, there are civilization-critical Work, also politically.
The 1973 Iraqi-born artist Lin May Saeed, who lives since a long time in Germany, combines activist moments with the motif of the rescue of nature. “The Liberation of Animals from their Cages” is a cycle of delicate wall works made of tool steel.
The 57-year-old US-American artist Mark Dion to Return the worn-out Slogan of “nature” is simple: His installation “Mobile Wilderness Unit” carts back to the icon of the frozen Wolf on a industry supporters to the Museum – of nature as a stuffed animal.
Large-format photographs by the Swiss artist Julian Charriére left to the forces of nature Director: the height of the characteristics of a snow-capped mountain range to be changed from “fog”, in every setting, his stationary camera. The effect of the image is striking. As a modern triptych, the Work in the exhibition hang.
Nature as an experience
Many artists left the Studio to paint in the outdoors. Or had to be inspired to travel by the motifs of the wild pristine. The Danish artist Per Kirkeby was ahead of his time as an artist on the road a lot as a biology student, and processed later in his sculptures and paintings.
Frank Stella The Grand Armada (1989)
Frank Stella, an American icon of Pop Art, around hit for a long time with the study of the novel “Moby Dick” by Hermann Melville, and came close to him on the storm-lashed coast of the Atlantic. His sculpture, “The Grand Armada” (1989) tells of the struggle of man against the Primal forces of nature.
One of the younger artists in the exhibition, the 43-year-old Dane, Jacob Kirkegaard, and has studied at the art College for media in Cologne, brought back from his travel to amazing sounds: Arctic tones of melting icebergs hunting the visitors in a bright red installation cave shiver down the spine.
“Sounds need time, and while you listen and wait, to open often something for you,” said Kirkegaard, on his music. The exhibition “Wilderness” starts with their point of view on the ambivalent relationship between art and nature, a lot of thought.