Donnerstag, 16. November 2006

TAL R / PROF. DR. GERNOT BÖHME

Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!

Lecture:
Tal R: Le peintre n´est pas la
Monday, 20 November, 19 h, Aula

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

"Le peintre n'est pas là" is also the title of the final show in New York in a series of four exhibitions. The shown paintings, - restricted to a colour palette of seven colours -, are featureing the stereotypical painter's haunts: the studio, the academy and the drinking hall.
Tal R characterises himself as a suburban kid who is often telling banal and simple stories with inspiration drawn from his immediate world: music, youth culture, comics, graffiti and the recent, expressive art history, e.g. Per Kirkeby. He conjures up a poetic pictorial universe that combines typically expressive painterly qualities with narratives and various associations, half way between realism and its total corruption via the artist's imagination. There is no hierarchy to Tal R's art; everything can be and is shown, no subject is too pedestrian, too revealing or too banal. His unpretentious approach to art characterises his work which is chaotic, humorous and full of movement.

Tal R has been a guestprofessor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2005. Last time his art was shown in Frankfurt at the Fine Art Fair, in cooperation with Jonathan Meese.


the Architecture Class presents:
Prof. Dr. Gernot Böhme, Philosopher, Darmstadt: [ The Concept of Atmosphere and its Meaning to Architecture ]
Thursday, 23 November, 19h, Aula

Alle Veranstaltungen der Architekturklasse finden in englischer Sprache statt.

Gernot Böhme was born in Dessau in 1937. He is a professor of philosophy at the Technische Universität in Darmstadt, where he taught since 1977, and has been visiting professor at the universities of Vienna, Harvard, Linköping, Cambridge, Canberra, and Rotterdam (Erasmus Universiteit). He is currently working on chaos theory and the link between technization and society. He is the author of Ästhetik: Vorlesungen über Ästhetik als allgemeine Wahrnehmunglehre, Theorie des Bildes, and Atmosphäre: Essays zur neuen Ästhetik.

Gernot Böhme, will lecture on the meaning of atmospheres in architecture. He has recently published an essay in the book Natural History, dealing with aesthetics and atmosphere in the work of Herzog & de Meuron.

The Städelschule Architecture Class Lecture Series is supported by the Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen.

Freitag, 10. November 2006

SKULPTUR PROJEKTE MÜNSTER 07: FIKTION DES ÖFFENTLICHEN

Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!

Podiumsdiskussion:
Fiktion des Öffentlichen
Mittwoch, 15 November, 19 Uhr, Aula

Mit Brigitte Franzen und Kasper König, Mitglieder des Kuratorenteams skulptur projekte münster 07, Clemens von Wedemeyer als teilnehmender Künstler und dem Soziologen Klaus Ronneberger, Frankfurt.

Im Sommer 2007 finden – zum vierten Mal und kuratiert von Brigitte Franzen, Carina Plath und Kasper König – die skulptur projekte münster 07 statt. Diese internationale Großausstellung lädt seit 1977 alle zehn Jahre Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus aller Welt ein, um das Verhältnis von Kunst und Öffentlichkeit neu zu definieren. Ein Parcours von ortsspezifischen Installationen und Skulpturen macht den Stadtraum von Münster neu erfahrbar. Für das Projekt im nächsten Jahr haben bisher u.a. zugesagt: Michael Elmgreen und Ingar Dragset, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Mike Kelley und Rosemarie Trockel.
Im Vorfeld diskutieren jetzt die Kuratoren zusammen mit einigen Künstlern des Projektes die zentralen Fragestellungen: Welche Möglichkeiten haben Künstler heute, Öffentlichkeit(en) zu schaffen? Welche Zukunft hat der öffentliche Raum – im Spannungsfeld zwischen Verwahrlosung und Vereinnahmung? Und welche öffentlichen Partizipationsformen gestalten heute das gesellschaftliche Projekt „Kunst“ mit?

www.skulptur-projekte.de

Dienstag, 7. November 2006

STEVEN CLAYDON / CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI

Herzliche Einladung zu den Veranstaltungen der Städelschule!

Lecture:
Steven Claydon
Tuesday, 7 November, 19 h, Aula

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Steven Claydon is fascinated with overlooked moments in history, particularly British history. Drawn to the interface between politics and art in early twentieth-century Europe, his paintings and posters include references to Vorticism and the Bauhaus, while some of his sculptures refer explicitly to monuments and memorials from the turn of the last century. All of his works have a false patina of age, as if they were relics from another time. He cooperated several times with Neil Chapman, also with Chris Ofili and others. Steven Claydon is well known to the electronic music scene in London and elsewhere under his synonym "Add N to X". Some of his works can be seen at the current exhibition "Rings of Saturn" in the Tate Modern, London.

"Proud as Miami Vice, Add N To X sets the controls to the heart of the Hole, leaving earth in a hail of chrome sparks and black rubber arrows of smoke."

Talk:
Christian Boltanski - An Evening at Städelschule
Christian Boltanski in conversation with Dr. Ralf Beil (Institut Mathildenhöhe) and Daniel Birnbaum
Thursday, 9 November, 19 h, Hall

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer, französischer und deutscher Sprache statt.

„I teach this to my students: you must wait and hope - there's nothing else you can do. (...) The good artists are usually the very young or the very old. The ones who are very young are so stupid that they have no fear. And when they are very old they aren't afraid any more. In the meantime, you are always, always, afraid.“ Christian Boltanski

On October 18th 2006 Christian Boltanski was awarded the Nobel Prize for the Arts, the Praemium Imperiale. The Frenchman Christian Boltanski (born 1944) is a master of stage-setting situations and spaces. In them he powerfully evokes and questions central parameters of human existence such as lifetime, identity, the body, death and our legacy.
The lecture takes place in the broader framework of the exhibition „Time“ in Darmstadt, his first major monographic show in Germany for ten years.

In Co-operation with Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt and Institut Francais, Frankfurt.

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