This film still shows a drawing of a landscape in simple black and white with a mixed creature that has a table lamp for a torso and human legs. There is also writing delicately superimposed over the drawing. William Kentridge, Sammlung Goetz Munich
    Sammlung Goetz

    Imagination Becomes Reality. Part III: Talking Pictures

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    „In Talking Pictures, the third part of my Imagination becomes Reality series of exhibitions, I should like to present some unashamedly narrative works of artitsts from the collection. Using film or canvas, they confront us with stories or fragments that we can elaborate in our own imaginations. The strong narrative accent in the various works of these artists ahould nevertheless not prevent us from seeing in them representative views of where painting stands today.“ (Ingvild Goetz)

    With Nigel Cooke, Peter Doig, Inka Essenhigh, William Kentridge, Jochen Kuhn, Rosilene Luduvico, Michael Raedecker, Hiroshi Sugito and David Thorpe.

    Talking Pictures is not so much about images that actually „talk“ – in the sense of films, videos and soundtracks underscored with monologues, dialogued, texts and language. Instead it is more about the specific qualities and possibilities of the visual and how the viewer can relate to them. This is a quality derived from the history of painting. As long as painting deployed comprehensible signs, color chords, compositions, moods and motifs, these were universally legible. Today, however, we have to ask ourselves just which visual elements of the media are still universally legible and which are comprehensible only to an open-minded and at the same time highly individualised viewpoint. This exhibition addressed some key issues rooted in the history and function of painting as a means of visual communication and transposed them to the multiplicity of contemporary art production. Talking Pictures explored the issue of how images become „talking pictures“ that convey specific and precise statements to the viewer.

    Imagination Becomes Reality
    Part III. Talking Pictures

    224 pages, 75 ill., hardcover
    German/English
    2006, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
    ISBN 3-9808063-7-5
    € 15,00

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    Imagination Becomes Reality
    (Special limited slipcase edition)

    On the occasion of the exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, a limited special edition has been published in a slipcase. It comprises all five exhibition catalogues of the exhibition cycle Imagination Becomes Reality, shown in the Munich rooms of the Sammlung Goetz, the sixth catalogue of the Karlsruhe exhibition, and a graphic work specially produced and signed for this edition.

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    Artist editions

    André Butzer

    Ohne Titel
    2006
    Woodcut
    23,5 x 16,5 cm
    Limited edition of 77

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    Thomas Helbig

    Wilder
    2006
    Lithograph/etching
    23,5 x 16,5 cm
    Limited edition of 77

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    Markus Selg

    Die Expedition
    2006
    Digital print
    23,5 x 16,5 cm
    Limited edition of 77

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    Tal R

    Inn
    2006
    Etching
    23,5 x 16,5 cm
    Limited edition of 77

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    Veron Urdarianu

    Die Rückkehr des Verlangens
    2006
    Litograph
    23,5 x 16,5 cm
    Limited edition of 77

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    Upcoming

    Gutai. Collection + Goetz

    – | Pinakothek der Moderne | Sammlung Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Collection)

    Since 2019, in the context of the Sammlung+ format, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst has presented artistic discoveries, new acquisitions and thematic foci in the Pinakothek der Moderne in collaboration with partners and foundations. This has led to the emergence of new perspectives on the collections, new insights into research work and the establishment of new dialogues. It is in this framework that a selection of paintings by the Japanese artist group Gutai from the Sammlung Goetz will be presented in room 23, within a series of rooms focusing on near-contemporaneous regional and German abstraction phenomena under the title “Walk the Line.”  Founded in 1954 by the abstract painter Jiro Yoshihara, Gutai was one of the 20th century’s most innovative artistic movements, which combined action, abstraction and materiality.

    further exhibitions

    Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg. The Experiment

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    Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg. The Experiment
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    Sammlung Goetz x LOVECRAFT

    Jianling Zhang. Media Art Award 2023
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    AkademieGalerie, München

    (Not) A Doll’s House. Traditional Roles and Brand-New Images
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    Münchner Stadtmuseum

    Blumenprojektion, Herbst (Flower Projection, Autumn), (1998) Peter Fischli David Weiss
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    An intervention of the Sammlung Goetz in the Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg

    Barbara Kasten
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    Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

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