Aufbruch in die Moderne
In the organizer's words:
Collection presentation August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists
The presentation AUFBRUCH IN DIE MODERNE is divided into three chapters, which use the painterly and graphic works from the collection of Classical Modernism - August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists - to tell individual episodes of history at the beginning of the 20th century and thus place the works of art in a wider historical context. This is not a strict classical art-historical form of presentation, but rather the idea that works of art communicate and produce knowledge on many levels. They tell us something about their creation, about the scientific epistemes of the time, about art historical discourses, about societies and the people in them, as well as about today's viewers. What is important here is the relationship between works of art and other objects, tools, inventions and discoveries, which are an expression of fundamental attitudes towards the world. Each of these phenomena, whether significant or insignificant, is not only based on this perspective on the world, but it is rather this attitude that gives rise to these phenomena in the first place. The presentation shows excerpts of what happened simultaneously in various areas of cultural, scientific and social life. The history of the artworks is integrated here into the most diverse constellations of things.
This means that works of art can always be interpreted ambiguously and are therefore complex entities that can be linked to different reference systems. By reference systems we mean both aspects intrinsic to art and non-artistic - cultural, historical, technical, scientific, etc. - discourses, ideas and insights as well as fictions. The works therefore have an open structure that does not allow their interpretation to come to a conclusion. Our way of reading the presentation is characterized by the BREAKING OUT INTO MODERNITY, the departure into a new century that holds great changes in store on all levels of human life.
With an artistic intervention by Mischa Kuball.
Here you can take a look at the booklet accompanying the exhibition. This is available free of charge at the information desk in the museum foyer.
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