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Season not yet really started.
Boys and girls, your guess, where am I?
a) Tiefgarage
b) Schrottplatz
c) modern art exhibition hall
The situation really looks like a underground parking but: big windows.
For a junkyard there is too much space and the wall is clean.
Yes, this is one corner in the MMK Tower, the museum for modern art
in the building called tower in Frankfurt downtown.
The exhibition presents works from the MMK collection ranging
in date from the early 1960s to the present, including some of the
museum’s newest acquisitions.
Through the windows you have a nice view.
Especially through those blue windows.
I also liked the colourful walls of the exhibition area.
Isa Genzken: Schauspieler & Untitled.
The four figures Isa Genzken brings together in her ensemble
Schauspieler II: 8, 11, 12 are overdetermined in literally every
way imaginable. The “child” figure carries a passport in front
of its bright orange life jacket, triggering a chain of associations
from themes such as family and flight to the topos of the rejected,
misunderstood child and beyond. What is more, by showing a
passport, the child—whose American football helmet seems at
least to protect it from direct blows—confronts the family with
an identity protected by the highest authority. Yet its status in
the first ideological apparatus of state, as the philosopher
Louis Althusser identified the family in his studies on ideology,
remains an isolated one. (...) The play of colors between the
figures and their clothing, but also the figures themselves,
some of which bear no more than a rudimentary
resemblance to human bodies, can be read as
a deconstruction of Pop Art and the family.
MMK has published a very informative booklet for this show.
It would be helpful to read it in the exhibition but you
need time and ... more time to understand the contents.
You can also download the booklet in internet:
Thomas Ruff: 3 x Anderes Porträt
The artist’s study of the face thus becomes an epistemological issue:
If every human being has many faces, how is it possible to speak of a
human being’s face? For Ruff, however, this question is already no longer
a question: to his way of think- ing, a pictorial portrait does not represent
a process of subjectivization. And it is in part for this reason that, in his
works, his concern is with the most neutral possible de-subjectivization
of the people depicted.
... and pile of broken glass is also art:
Barry Le Va: On Center Shatter-or-Shatterscatter.
Yes, even here the gender debates are present.
Well, well, well, would I recommend this exhibition?
Only for people who really are into modern art.
Art as well? No, just a decorated entrance to a church.
Katharinenkirche at Hauptwache.
It's a vertical garden!
Recycled pallets.
