Drawings and Sculptures from the Deutsche Bank
Collection:
"Dialog Skulptur" at the Kunstforum Seligenstadt
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Karl Hartung, Mittlerer Torso, 1948
(Bronze Sculpture)
Deutsche Bank Collection
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Joseph Beuys once said that "everything is sculpture". With
its approximately 100 works selected from the
Deutsche Bank Collection, the exhibition Dialog Skulptur, which
runs from February 24 through April 24 2005 at the Kunstforum
Seligenstadt, examines the change in the concept of sculpture – beginning
with Classic Modernism and carrying through to the present day.
Max Beckmann,
Joseph Beuys,
Bruce Nauman,
Tony Cragg, and Andrea Zittel are
only a few of the international artists whose works testify to just how
multi-faceted artistic research can be.
In its juxtaposition of
sculptures and works on paper, Dialog Skulptur investigates the
reciprocal relationships between the media drawing and painting. Drawing
has long since ceased to possess a merely preliminary function preparing
the leap from a "flat" representation into the third dimension of
sculpture. More than any other medium, works on paper document the
processes and working steps of artistic production. Notes, fleeting ideas,
initial compositions, but also autonomous visual works can be recorded on
paper. While sculpture underwent a transformation from object to concept
in the Minimal Art,
Conceptual Art, and Fluxus
works of the sixties, even two-dimensional works, texts, music, performances,
or social interaction can be declared sculpture.
Tobias Rehberger, Tout pour les Femmes, 2001
Deutsche Bank Collection
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Martin Kippenberger, Untitled (Tisch), 1995
and
Untitled (Stuhl), 1995
Deutsche Bank Collection
While works such as
Ernst Barlach’s wooden sculpture Pregnant Girl (1924),
Hans Arp’s The Shell of Venus (1958), or
Renee Sintenis’ bronze figure Daphne (1930) reflect upon the
tradition of Classic
Modernism, Dialog Skulptur’s main focus is on the
international movements in post-war art: with Joseph Beuys,
Dieter Roth, Inge Mahn
,
Richard Artschwager, and
Ulrich Rückriem, artistic positions are introduced that have been
radically expanding sculpture’s sphere of action since the sixties. As
representatives of a younger generation, artists such as
Günther Förg,
Stephan Balkenhol,
Olaf Metzel, Martin
Kippenberger,
Anish Kapoor, Karin
Sander, Tobias
Rehberger, and
Olafur Eliasson are present in the exhibition. Another highlight is the
Maquette for Sun Disc/Moon Shadow V (1956-58), the steel sculpture by
the famous American sculptor
Louise Nevelson, who will be traveling for the first time from New York to
Germany for the occasion.
Ever since it was founded, the Deutsche
Bank Collection, the largest corporate collection worldwide, has been
concentrating chiefly on works with and on paper, presenting them in bank
buildings and international museum exhibitions around the globe. Now, on
the occasion of the collection’s 25th anniversary, Dialog Skulptur
is offering an opportunity to get to know a number of different forms of
artistic investigation into issues of space and corporeality while
providing unique insight into a living piece of collecting history.
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Louise Nevelson, Maquette for Sun
Disc/Moon Shadow V, 1976-78
Deutsche Bank Collection
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