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160614: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: Art & Textile – Fabric as material and idea in the modern from Klimt to the present
taatsgalerie Stuttgart
Art & Textile – Fabric as material and idea in the modern from Klimt to the present
21.03.2014 – 22.06. 2014
Art between warp and weft
Daniela Gregori
Spinning, weaving and knotting belong to the cultural achievements which define man right from the beginning of his daily life and being. Not for nothing is it called "In the beginning was the textile art", with Gottfried Semper. For his last exhibition, "Art and Textile – Fabric as material in the modern from Klimt to the present", Markus Brüderlin has continued to spin these thoughts, activate considerations about the influence of textiles on the development of the modern and has thus applied himself once more to a great theme with a well-thought-out thesis. The works range from mediaeval tapestry to computer animation, from pre-Columbian textile fragments to Lucio Fontana's cut canvas and, in the accompanying publication, the curator gives fundamental considerations as to how inter-cultural dialogue can be orchestrated into the context of an exhibition.
Following the Art Museum Wolfsburg, for which the show was designed, it is now stopping off in a "more concentrated" form in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. This is, in principle, highly praiseworthy, but the over 100 artistic positions have been reduced to about 40 due to space restrictions. This should be kept in mind because sometimes one has difficulty in following the concept's red thread.
What begins with Gustav Klimt ultimately ends with Peter Kogler. In the exhibition's final room, the visitor finds himself, as it were, in an animated texture by Kogler. One will possibly feel reminded of the time in 2001 when Brüderlin set yardsticks for the Fondation Beyeler with another large exhibition including publication; he probably considered this in a similar way.
"The current project virtually forms the counterpart to Ornament and Abstraction", writes Markus Brüderlin in his foreword to the accompanying catalogue on "Art and Textile". Without doubt, the book has already become a standard work on the theme; in almost 400 pages, no questions are left unanswered. The only sad thing is that it has now become Brüderlin's legacy.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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160614
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
70173 Stuttgart, Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 30-32
Tel: +49 711 470 40 0, Fax: +49 711 236 99 83
Email: info@staatsgalerie.de
http://www.staatsgalerie.de
Öffnungszeiten: Mi, Fr, Sa + So 10-18, Di + Do 10-20 h
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
70173 Stuttgart, Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 30-32
Tel: +49 711 470 40 0, Fax: +49 711 236 99 83
Email: info@staatsgalerie.de
http://www.staatsgalerie.de
Öffnungszeiten: Mi, Fr, Sa + So 10-18, Di + Do 10-20 h
