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| Article number | 177091 |
| Price | 8,00 € |
Description:
ILLUSION
Dream - Identity - Reality
06.12.2024 - 06.04.2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition poster | Lorenzo Lippi motif | Dimensions: 59.5 x 84 cm
With an extensive, cross-epochal exhibition, the Hamburger Kunsthalle sheds 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 experienced a heyday in the Renaissance and Baroque periods in particular. 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. In 1976, Sigmar Polke posed the provocative question: ‘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.
Dream - Identity - Reality
06.12.2024 - 06.04.2025 | Special exhibition | Exhibition poster | Lorenzo Lippi motif | Dimensions: 59.5 x 84 cm
With an extensive, cross-epochal exhibition, the Hamburger Kunsthalle sheds 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 experienced a heyday in the Renaissance and Baroque periods in particular. 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. In 1976, Sigmar Polke posed the provocative question: ‘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.
