Perspectives. Futurisms
| Exhibition | |
| Date: | forthcoming in 2023 |
| Curated by: | Renate Wiehager |
| At: | Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Berlin |
| Artists: |
Farah Al Qasimi, Heba Y. Amin, Shūsaku Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Kirstin Arndt, Elisabetta Benassi, Wolfgang Berkowski, Zander Blom, Hartmut Böhm, Stephen Bram, Monika Brandmeier, Natalie Czech, Ding Yi, Marcel Duchamp + Mathieu Mercier, Fang Lu, Rupprecht Geiger, Magnus Gjoen, Hermann Glöckner, Gail Hastings, Susan Hefuna, Jan Henderikse, Florina Leinss, Sylvan Lionni, Richard Mosse, Zanele Muholi, Ann-Kathrin Müller, Timo Nasseri, Brian O’Doherty, Kayode Ojo, Olsen, Julian Opie, Philippe Parreno, Charlotte Posenenske, Robin Rhode, Hiroe Saeki, Michael Sayles, Eckhard Schene, Ina Weber, Albert Weis, Ben Willikens, Yin Xiuzhen |
| List of works by GH: |
Cylindrical space lined by yellow |
| Excerpt from Foreword by Renate Wiehager: |
In March and June of 1912, the French newspaper Le Figaro published the first sections of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu [In Search of Lost Time]. At around the same time in Paris, Marcel Duchamp brought an end to his painting activities and began work on the concept of the readymade. Both projects will open fundamentally new paths in the literature and art of the 20th century. For the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, the seminal artistic concepts of Marcel Duchamp have offered an occasion for research, exhibitions, publications, and digital lecture talks since 2017. Our publication series on Duchamp continues in 2023 with a fourth volume, entitled Duchamp & Proust: Renaissance of Perspectives, accompanying our exhibition concept Perspectives. Futurisms and the current brochure. Within the context of cultural history as shaped by the West, the concept of perspective is often traced back to a day in 1425, when the sculptor and architect Filippo Brunelleschi painted an image based on geometric linear perspective for the first time in Renaissance Florence. Today, moreover, we know that the theory of perspective originated in 11th century Baghdad, where the mathematician Ibn al-Haytham formulated a new visual theory based on geometric abstraction. From these beginnings, the notion of the image as an illusionistic, open window makes its way into art and becomes the norm of pictorial spatial configurations. |
| Bibliography: | Gail Hastings, ‘Untitled Space, 1400s: When Space Became a Point of View’, in Renate Wiehager with Katharina Neuburger (ed.), Duchamp & Proust: Renaissance of Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Berlin 2023. Gail Hastings, ‘Cylindrical Space Lined by Yellow’, in Renate Wiehager (ed.), Perspectives. Futurisms, Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Berlin 2023, pp.59–63. |
| Image: |
Detail of ‘Cylindrical space lined by yellow’ |
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I acknowledge the Kulin Nation’s Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung people as custodians of the lands, waterways and skies where I live and work. I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. I recognise their cultural faithfulness, strength and resilience against the trauma of colonisation. First Peoples’ sovereignty has never been ceded.
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