Vortrag
Beate Söntgen: Matisse's Chairs
Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the inception of modernity, since the rise of the bourgeois culture of representation, the figure of the interior has modeled the relationship between the picture and its beholder: as an enclosed space that opens up toward the observer and invites him or her to participate in the represented world. Matisse, however, thwarts this fantasy of immersion: with his chairs. They are precisely not figures of the notorious armchair, with its therapeutic mission of furnishing us with a peaceful interior world as a shield against the demands of what is outside. Matisse’s chairs stand literally athwart the invitation to participate, keeping us at arm’s length. The interior is the very subject on which Matisse worked to become Matisse, if we accept Yve-Alain Bois’s conception of a “Matisse system.” Only the articulation of margins such as that engendered by the bistable figure of inside and outside in the interior allows for the representation of the expansive force that is characterestic of Matisse – an expansive force that is directed sideways, not toward the beholder.
Beate Söntgen holds the Chair of Art History at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, since 2011. Before she was Professor of Art History at Ruhr-University of Bochum and Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. 1996-2002 Freelancer at the Feuilleton of the FAZ. Contribution to Exhibitions, 2006 as a Co-Curator of ‘K20’ Düsseldorf: 'Matisse. Figure-Colour-Space.’ Publications on modern and contemporary art and on art theory.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 12. Dezember 2011
Beate Söntgen
Vortrag
Beate Söntgen: Matisse's Chairs
Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the inception of modernity, since the rise of the bourgeois culture of representation, the figure of the interior has modeled the relationship between the picture and its beholder: as an enclosed space that opens up toward the observer and invites him or her to participate in the represented world. Matisse, however, thwarts this fantasy of immersion: with his chairs. They are precisely not figures of the notorious armchair, with its therapeutic mission of furnishing us with a peaceful interior world as a shield against the demands of what is outside. Matisse’s chairs stand literally athwart the invitation to participate, keeping us at arm’s length. The interior is the very subject on which Matisse worked to become Matisse, if we accept Yve-Alain Bois’s conception of a “Matisse system.” Only the articulation of margins such as that engendered by the bistable figure of inside and outside in the interior allows for the representation of the expansive force that is characterestic of Matisse – an expansive force that is directed sideways, not toward the beholder.
Beate Söntgen holds the Chair of Art History at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, since 2011. Before she was Professor of Art History at Ruhr-University of Bochum and Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. 1996-2002 Freelancer at the Feuilleton of the FAZ. Contribution to Exhibitions, 2006 as a Co-Curator of ‘K20’ Düsseldorf: 'Matisse. Figure-Colour-Space.’ Publications on modern and contemporary art and on art theory.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Beate Söntgen: Matisse's Chairs
Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Since the inception of modernity, since the rise of the bourgeois culture of representation, the figure of the interior has modeled the relationship between the picture and its beholder: as an enclosed space that opens up toward the observer and invites him or her to participate in the represented world. Matisse, however, thwarts this fantasy of immersion: with his chairs. They are precisely not figures of the notorious armchair, with its therapeutic mission of furnishing us with a peaceful interior world as a shield against the demands of what is outside. Matisse’s chairs stand literally athwart the invitation to participate, keeping us at arm’s length. The interior is the very subject on which Matisse worked to become Matisse, if we accept Yve-Alain Bois’s conception of a “Matisse system.” Only the articulation of margins such as that engendered by the bistable figure of inside and outside in the interior allows for the representation of the expansive force that is characterestic of Matisse – an expansive force that is directed sideways, not toward the beholder.
Beate Söntgen holds the Chair of Art History at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, since 2011. Before she was Professor of Art History at Ruhr-University of Bochum and Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. 1996-2002 Freelancer at the Feuilleton of the FAZ. Contribution to Exhibitions, 2006 as a Co-Curator of ‘K20’ Düsseldorf: 'Matisse. Figure-Colour-Space.’ Publications on modern and contemporary art and on art theory.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Montag, 5. Dezember 2011
Judith Hopf
Vortrag
Judith Hopf: Some End of Things
Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Judith Hopf will talk about her recent series of works with the title: Some End of Things. Alongside her 'research' concerning Endings, Hopf will concentrate on keywords like: Exhaustion, Emancipation and Entrance in order to develop perspectives beyond the hopefully and finally found Ends.
"...The artist's recent work often returns to the idea of exhaustion. She frames this concept in Beckettian terms, considering the Janus-faced possibilities of speaking exhaustively and, conversely, the point at which meaning itself is exhausted. Are you exhausted because of the endless possibilities or because the possibilities have already been exhausted? Hopf's work suggests unexpected modes of resistance to what she has called 'the tyranny of the same'. …" Sam Thorne , Frieze Foundation, 2011
Judith Hopf´s 'Some Ends of Things' were recently exhibited at Galerie Croy/Nielsen, Berlin, Frieze Foundation London, Alex Zachery Gallery, New York and Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien. In 2011 she participated in various groupshows like 'Priority Moments', Herald Street, London, 'Traurige Tiere', Kunstverein Bonn and 'How to Work', Kunsthalle Basel.
Judith Hopf is professor at Städelschule since 2008.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Judith Hopf: Some End of Things
Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2011, 19 Uhr, Aula
Judith Hopf will talk about her recent series of works with the title: Some End of Things. Alongside her 'research' concerning Endings, Hopf will concentrate on keywords like: Exhaustion, Emancipation and Entrance in order to develop perspectives beyond the hopefully and finally found Ends.
"...The artist's recent work often returns to the idea of exhaustion. She frames this concept in Beckettian terms, considering the Janus-faced possibilities of speaking exhaustively and, conversely, the point at which meaning itself is exhausted. Are you exhausted because of the endless possibilities or because the possibilities have already been exhausted? Hopf's work suggests unexpected modes of resistance to what she has called 'the tyranny of the same'. …" Sam Thorne , Frieze Foundation, 2011
Judith Hopf´s 'Some Ends of Things' were recently exhibited at Galerie Croy/Nielsen, Berlin, Frieze Foundation London, Alex Zachery Gallery, New York and Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien. In 2011 she participated in various groupshows like 'Priority Moments', Herald Street, London, 'Traurige Tiere', Kunstverein Bonn and 'How to Work', Kunsthalle Basel.
Judith Hopf is professor at Städelschule since 2008.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
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