Ausstellungsführung: Mike Kelley. Ghost and Spirit
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The work of Mike Kelley (1954 in Detroit, Michigan - 2012 in Los Angeles, California) is experimental, opulent and disturbing - and is considered one of the most influential since the late 1970s. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is showing a comprehensive retrospective at K21, which was created in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, the Pinault Collection, Paris, and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Whether spiritualist ideas, heavy metal or Superman comics, Kelley draws on images and myths from pop and subculture to pose enduring questions about the place of man in the world and society. The influence of politics and educational systems are addressed, as are class and gender affiliation. In the 1990s, Mike Kelley attracted attention with sculptures made of stuffed animals and handicrafts with female connotations. Behind their supposed harmlessness, however, something sinister, threatening and remote emerged. One of his last major work complexes, "Day is Done" (2005), draws on carnival, Halloween and school theater. Kelley sees such popular customs as ritualized violations of social conventions. Art itself can also be counted among the places where such rule-breaking can take place. In their midst, Kelley stages the artist as a highly fragile figure.
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