Seedamm Kulturzentrum Päffikon, Charles and Agnes Vögele Foundation
Realit;-)t. Video works from Sammlung Goetz in Munich. From Olaf Breuning to Sam Taylor-Wood
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What is reality? What is fiction? In an age when perception of the world is largely conveyed by media images, the boundaries seem to blur. This exhibition brought together 30 video works by a younger generation of artists who confront these questions.
Electronic media shape the youth and recreational time of a younger generation. Against this backdrop, young artists are developing a great interest in using their media works to highlight the rites, problems and identity questions of youth. Collector Ingvild Goetz finds the medium of video suited like no other to reflect our world with its social, political and artistic facets. Will we soon perceive reality only through images brought to us via the media? "No cause for concern" say the exhibition curators. With a knowing wink, they have thus exchanged the 'ä' in 'Realität' [Reality] in the exhibition title for an emoticon.
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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.