Welt in der Schwebe : Luft als künstlerisches Material = Up in the air : air as an artistic material / herausgegeben von Barbara J. Scheuermann & Anna Döbbelin für das Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheuermann, Barbara J. (Barbara Josepha), 1975- editor.

Döbbelin, Anna, editor.

Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, host institution, issuing body.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Air in art--Exhibitions.

Air in art.

Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Up in the air : air as an artistic material

Place of Publication:

Bonn : Kunstmuseum Bonn ; Köln : Snoeck, [2022]

Language Note:

Parallel texts in English and German.

Summary:

Air has an existential significance for all forms of life in the world. It is everywhere, albeit invisible and evanescent; it is literally impalpable. While until now in everyday life we have taken air for granted, in current political and social discourses air appears as a central element: during the corona crisis, we wear face masks to protect others from the air we breathe out, scientists are investigating the role of aerosols in the transmission of the Covid-19 virus, and climate activists fight for clean air and hence against climate change. The depiction of air has been one of the artistic challenges at least since the Renaissance. Painting in particular has taken on this task. As a material, however, air is a relatively recent phenomenon in art. The artists of Modernism strived for the artistic appropriation of the world as well as its dissolution and transformation. It therefore only seems logical that they regarded air not only as an idea, but also as a material. Air was no longer depicted merely as wind, clouds, fog, steam, smoke, or breath, but has been deliberately used as a material. Thus it has been both a medium of expression as well as a subject in the visual, applied and performing arts since then. The exhibition focuses on air as an artistic material and as a carrier of forms and ideas in the visual arts. The works on display, just like the material they all share, are sometimes expansive, sometimes minimal or even invisible, solid as well as ephemeral, they are located indoors as well as outdoors. The art works storm, whisper, blow, evaporate, breathe, and float. -- (provided by publisher).

Air has an existential significance for all forms of life in the world. It is everywhere, albeit invisible and evanescent; it is literally impalpable. While until now in everyday life we have taken air for granted, in current political and social discourses air appears as a central element: during the corona crisis, we wear face masks to protect others from the air we breathe out; scientists are investigating the role of aerosols in the transmission of the COVID-19 virus, and climate activists fight for clean air and hence against climate change. The depiction of air has been one of the artistic challenges at least since the Renaissance. As a material, however, air is a relatively recent phenomenon in art. The artists of Modernism strived for the artistic appropriation of the worldas well as its dissolution and transformation. It therefore only seems logical that they regarded air not only as an idea, but also as a material. Air was no longer depicted merely as wind, clouds, fog, steam, smoke, or breath, but has been deliberately used as a material. Thus it has been both a medium of expression as well as a subject in the visual, applied and performing arts since then.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 172).

"Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Charlotte Charbonnel, Judy Chicago, Christo & Jeanne Claude, Andreas Gefeller, Stefan Glauber, Hans Hemmert, Edith Kollath, Lang Baumann, Piero Manzoni, Lyoudmila Milanova & Steffi Lindner, Yoko Ono, Otto Piene, Michael Pinsky, Arcangelo Sassolino, Rikuo Ueda, Ulay / Marina Abramovic, Timm Ulrichs, Andy Warhol, Martin Werthmann" -- (from title page).

Local Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, February 24 - June 19, 2022.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783864423819

3864423813

OCLC:

1306046236

Publisher Number:

9783864423819