{"id":44398,"date":"2024-06-29T07:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T05:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=44398"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T10:36:33","slug":"on-the-volcano","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/event\/on-the-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A collection presentation with works by Jean-Michel Alberola, Pawe\u0142 Althamer, Belkis Ay\u00f3n, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Erik Bulatov, Mar\u00eda Magdalena Campos-Pons, Walter Dahn, Fischli\/Weiss, Wang Guangyi, Richard Hamilton, Duane Hanson, Joan Jonas, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nadenka Creative Association, Bruce Nauman, Hilka Nordhausen, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara), Robert Rauschenberg, Rissa, Ulrike Rosenbach, James Rosenquist, Miko\u0142aj Sobczak, Telewissen, Jos\u00e9 Toirac, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Annette Wehrmann, Ai Weiwei, Garry Winogrand<\/strong><\/p>

Opening: Sunday, June 30, 2024, from 11 am<\/strong><\/p>

On the Volcano<\/em>, the title of the current presentation of works from the Ludwig Forum\u2019s collections, is borrowed from one of Franz Erhard Walther\u2019s \u201cword-pictures,\u201d a device the artist used to open up \u201cspaces of projection\u201d which viewers could then fill, through their own thoughts, with meaning and content. The paraphrased metaphor to \u201cdance on the lip of a volcano\u201d goes back to an observation made by the French statesman and publicist Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy on the eve of the 1830 July Revolution to describe risky, almost na\u00efve behavior in the face of imminent disaster. Relating this imagery to our reappraisal of the collections at the Ludwig Forum enables us to critically plot the crucial upheavals and the conflicts and divisions marking our contemporary age: the current discourses on freedom (of speech and of expression in the arts) and justice irrespective of origin, gender, or class, are the starting point to realign artistic positions within the collections.<\/p>

The various global manifestations of Pop Art, the artistic direction which brought worldwide renown to the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig overnight, begins the presentation. After the fall of the Iron Curtain and parallel to the ever-advancing \u201cexport\u201d of capitalism, this direction spread to numerous parts of the world. The first room of the exhibition accordingly initiates a dialogue between works by American superstars like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein with the diverse variations and extensions of Pop Art evident in the creative approaches taken by Erik Bulatov, Ai Weiwei, Hilka Nordhausen, Rissa (Karin G\u00f6tz), and Jos\u00e9 Toirac. Garry Winogrand\u2019s photo series Public Relations<\/em> and Trio Sonata in Video. Deutschland, Deutschland<\/em> by the artist group telewissen reflect the social upheavals which had begun in the 1960s in Germany and the United States\u2014precisely the point in time Peter and Irene Ludwig started to collect pivotal works of Pop Art and successively expand their burgeoning collection with works by other international artists.<\/p>

The second room of the exhibition focuses on questions emerging from the politics of representation and visibility beyond entrenched stereotypes. On the one hand, this entails inquiring critically into the presence of and the gaze on the body, while on the other it enables a tracing of transformative strategies of self-determination and the dissolution of gender-specific role models in favor of more fluid ideas of identity. Along with graphic works and paintings by Jean-Michel Alberola, Belkis Ay\u00f3n, Richard Hamilton, and Robert Kushner, this section will also show video works by Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, and Ulrike Rosenbach.<\/p>

The next room of the exhibition takes up and elaborates on this thread, presenting works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fischli\/Weiss, Dan Perjovschi, Robert Rauschenberg, Miko\u0142aj Sobczak, and Franz Erhard Walther, which explore surveillance, oppression, exploitation, and racism, while revealing recurrent patterns of violence and resistance.<\/p>

Finally, On the Volcano<\/em> is not only concerned with exploring the potential of art to open up spaces for affirmative projections and action, but also seeks to identify the possibilities inscribed in collective and participative forms of artistic practice. Here, Pawe\u0142 Althamer\u2019s installation in Aachen\u2019s St Elisabeth\u2019s church is exemplary: a playground slide in the form of a pulpit, created in collaboration with children from the neighborhood. In Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt\u2019s Iconostasis<\/em>, the iconography of Christian and Byzantine churches is converted into a queer aesthetic: combining profane materials, glitzy camp elements and queer motifs with the pictorial tradition of Orthodox Christianity, Lanigan-Schmidt\u2019s altar merges supposedly contrary spheres and thus simultaneously blurs the boundaries between sub, pop, and high culture.<\/p>

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Sunday, 30.06.2023, from 11 am
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Thursday, 08.08.2024, 6 pm<\/strong><\/div>
Guided tour with curator Holger Otten<\/div><\/div>
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Thursday, 29.08.2024, 6 pm<\/strong><\/div>
Guided tour with curator Holger Otten<\/div>
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Thursday, 19.09.2024, 6 pm<\/strong><\/div>
Guided tour with Anna Marckwald (curatorial assistant)<\/div><\/div>
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Thursday, 10.10.2024, 6 pm<\/strong><\/div>
Guided tour with curator Holger Otten<\/div><\/div>
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Thursday, 24.10.2024, 6 pm<\/strong><\/div>
Guided tour with Gesa H\u00fcwe (press and public relations)<\/div><\/div>
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Download exhibition booklet (PDF)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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