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| Article number | 16790BA |
| Price | 54,00 € |
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ILLUSION
Dream - Identity - Reality
06 Dec 2024 to 06 April 2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue
With an extensive, cross-epochal exhibition, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is shedding light on the various facets of the theme of illusion, from the art of the Old Masters to the present day. The ‘trompe-l'oeil’ has been widespread in art since antiquity and flourished particularly in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In the Romantic period, the desire to deceive eroded, but never completely disappeared from the artistic repertoire and continues to fascinate artists to this day. The exhibition shows that illusion means far more than just deceiving the eye. It is revealed in the (illusionistic) self-love of Narcissus as well as in architectural spatial illusions, in the play of concealment and revelation through the pictorial motifs of the curtain and the mask, in the meaning of the open or closed window to the world and in depictions of visions and dreams. With around 150 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations and video works, the show traces the diverse manifestations of hyperrealism, reality, fiction, dreams, transformation and deception. The exhibits include major works from the Hamburger Kunsthalle as well as loans from national and international collections.
Art theoretical, philosophical and psychological positions from Plato to Leon Battista Alberti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor W. Adorno, Sigmund Freud, André Breton and Jean Baudrillard accompany the artistic exploration of the theme of illusion and encourage visitors to critically scrutinise the reliability of their own perception and their own image of supposed reality. Sigmar Polke posed the provocative question in 1976: ‘Can you always believe your eyes?’ Against the backdrop of fake news and artificial intelligence, this question has taken on a new urgency and topicality, and there are many points of contact with today's social debates.
Artists in the exhibition:
Helene Appel, Hans Arp, Thomas Baldischwyler, Max Beckmann, Paris Bordone, Carl Gustav Carus, Marc Chagall, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Adriaen Coorte, Lovis Corinth, Edgar Degas, Robert Delaunay, Johann Friedrich Dieterich, Gerrit Dou, Wilhelm Schubert von Ehrenberg, Lars Eidinger, Elmgreen & Dragset, James Ensor, Max Ernst, M. C. Escher, Juan Fernández, Charles de la Fosse, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Xaver Fuhr, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Cornelis Gijsbrechts, Nan Goldin, Francisco de Goya, Andreas Greiner, Duane Hanson, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Johann Georg Hinz, David Hockney, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Roni Horn, Gerard Houckgeest, Horst Janssen, Alexander Kanoldt, Howard Kanovitz, Anish Kapoor, Oskar Kokoschka, Jens Lausen, François Lemoyne, Lorenzo Lippi, Simon Luttichuys, Alfred Madsen, René Magritte, Tony Matelli, Stefan Marx, Hans Memling, Adolph Menzel, Frans van Mieris d. Elder, Piet Mondrian, Ron Mueck, NEAL, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Joachim Ringelnatz, Jan van Rossum, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Godfried Schalcken, Markus Schinwald, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Schrimpf, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Antoine van Steenwinckel, Theodoor van Thulden, Nikos Valsamakis, Victor Vasarely, Wolf Vostell, Friedrich Wasmann, John William Waterhouse, Jacob de Wit, Francisco de Zurbarán
Hardcover edition | 250 illustrations | edited by Sandra Pisot and Johanna Hornauer for the Hamburger Kunsthalle | Hatje Cantz Verlag | no. of pages 320 | dimensions (L/W/H) 28.5x22.6x3.1 cm | weight 1597 g | language German
Dream - Identity - Reality
06 Dec 2024 to 06 April 2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue
With an extensive, cross-epochal exhibition, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is shedding light on the various facets of the theme of illusion, from the art of the Old Masters to the present day. The ‘trompe-l'oeil’ has been widespread in art since antiquity and flourished particularly in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In the Romantic period, the desire to deceive eroded, but never completely disappeared from the artistic repertoire and continues to fascinate artists to this day. The exhibition shows that illusion means far more than just deceiving the eye. It is revealed in the (illusionistic) self-love of Narcissus as well as in architectural spatial illusions, in the play of concealment and revelation through the pictorial motifs of the curtain and the mask, in the meaning of the open or closed window to the world and in depictions of visions and dreams. With around 150 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations and video works, the show traces the diverse manifestations of hyperrealism, reality, fiction, dreams, transformation and deception. The exhibits include major works from the Hamburger Kunsthalle as well as loans from national and international collections.
Art theoretical, philosophical and psychological positions from Plato to Leon Battista Alberti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor W. Adorno, Sigmund Freud, André Breton and Jean Baudrillard accompany the artistic exploration of the theme of illusion and encourage visitors to critically scrutinise the reliability of their own perception and their own image of supposed reality. Sigmar Polke posed the provocative question in 1976: ‘Can you always believe your eyes?’ Against the backdrop of fake news and artificial intelligence, this question has taken on a new urgency and topicality, and there are many points of contact with today's social debates.
Artists in the exhibition:
Helene Appel, Hans Arp, Thomas Baldischwyler, Max Beckmann, Paris Bordone, Carl Gustav Carus, Marc Chagall, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Adriaen Coorte, Lovis Corinth, Edgar Degas, Robert Delaunay, Johann Friedrich Dieterich, Gerrit Dou, Wilhelm Schubert von Ehrenberg, Lars Eidinger, Elmgreen & Dragset, James Ensor, Max Ernst, M. C. Escher, Juan Fernández, Charles de la Fosse, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Xaver Fuhr, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Cornelis Gijsbrechts, Nan Goldin, Francisco de Goya, Andreas Greiner, Duane Hanson, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Johann Georg Hinz, David Hockney, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Roni Horn, Gerard Houckgeest, Horst Janssen, Alexander Kanoldt, Howard Kanovitz, Anish Kapoor, Oskar Kokoschka, Jens Lausen, François Lemoyne, Lorenzo Lippi, Simon Luttichuys, Alfred Madsen, René Magritte, Tony Matelli, Stefan Marx, Hans Memling, Adolph Menzel, Frans van Mieris d. Elder, Piet Mondrian, Ron Mueck, NEAL, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Joachim Ringelnatz, Jan van Rossum, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Godfried Schalcken, Markus Schinwald, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Schrimpf, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Antoine van Steenwinckel, Theodoor van Thulden, Nikos Valsamakis, Victor Vasarely, Wolf Vostell, Friedrich Wasmann, John William Waterhouse, Jacob de Wit, Francisco de Zurbarán
Hardcover edition | 250 illustrations | edited by Sandra Pisot and Johanna Hornauer for the Hamburger Kunsthalle | Hatje Cantz Verlag | no. of pages 320 | dimensions (L/W/H) 28.5x22.6x3.1 cm | weight 1597 g | language German
