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7th European Conference Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning
“Sun and Sense”
(11 - 14/03/2008) - Berlin
The first European Conference Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning, initiated by the European Commission, took place in Munich in 1987. At the five subsequent conferences the concepts and ideas of a direct use of solar energy in buildings and for urban development were constantly enhanced.
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Das Erbe Kalkuttas
(> 24/03/2008) - Francfort/Main
DAM
This exhibition presents photographs of Calcutta at the 19th Century, by more tan 20 students in photography of the higher educational establishment for arts of Bremen under control Peter Bialobrzeski. The villas and palaces today threatened of destruction are the last testimonys of the Indian elite then under British domination.
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Araki, Miyamoto, Sugimoto Japanische Fotografie der Gegenwart
(> 24/03/2008) - Wolfsburg
Kunstmuseum
Nobuyoshi Araki, Ryuji Miyamoto and Hiroshi Sugimoto show the Minimalisme effects in Japanese esthetics.
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GLASHAUS_07 goes NYC
(7/03 - 2/05/2008) - Berlin
Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
The exhibition is an actualization of the presentation conceived by the center for Architecture New York town center „new Practices New York Showcases“. Are presented six offices selected by a jury, which rank among the avant-garde of the New Yorker architecture scene: Architecture in Formation, Gage Clemenceau Architects, G Tects LLC, Interboro, WORK AC and Zakrzweski Hyde Architects.
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Rupprecht geiger stocking up on colour for new energy
(> 8/05/2008) - Munich
Haus der Kunst
On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the haus der kunst is paying tribute to the munich artist rupprecht geiger with an installation in which a.o. the famous 'rote trombe' [red dust devil] can be seen: a tent-like object in which the visitor can 'stock up on red' for a few minutes. Luminous colours and intense contrasts are characteristic for rupprecht geiger's art; for him the colour red stands for the epitome of pure light, pure energy and vitality.
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In the realm of the Arts - Architecture at the Munich Academy 1808 | 2008
(> 18/05/2008) - Munich
Pinakothek der Moderne
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts the Architecture Museum is showing the work of its architects and students. With the aid of plans, photos and models it is presenting the specific form of architecture and architectural studies »In the realm of the Arts«.
Among the most famous teachers at the Academy in the 19th century were Carl von Fischer, architect of Munich’s Nationaltheater, Friedrich von Gärtner, whose international acclaim was comparable to that of the Prussian Schinkel school, August von Voit, who built the Glaspalast and the ingenious draughtsman Ludwig Lange. In 1868 the study of architecture was transferred to the newly constructed Technical University and it was not until 1946 that architecture was again taught at the Academy. Its famous names include the teachers Sep Ruf, Paolo Nestler and Otto Steidle.
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Nieto Sobejano
(25/04 - 30/05/2008) - Berlin
Aedes Am Pfefferberg
For years, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have numbered among the most distinguished representatives of Spain’s contemporary architectural scene. For the first time with the exhibition “Arquitectura Concreta,” held at Aedes am Pfefferberg, this pair of successful Madrid architects provides an overview of current projects, all characterized by fascinating spatial configurations and incisive formal idioms. The overview of Nieto Sobejano’s current activities is embedded in an ambitious exhibition design, one that mirrors the forms of their current projects. Enthralling spatial effects, sophisticated materiality, and sculptural design are united here in conjunction with the featured projects to form an unmistakable architectonic approach – the one responsible for the success of Nieto Sobejano.
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Living Under the Crescent Moon
(> 31/08/2008) - Weil am Rhein
Vitra Design Museum
The exhibition demonstrates the diversity of domestic lifestyles between Morocco, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula - from the nomadic tents of the Tuareg or Bedouins to Moroccan casbahs; from the grand courtyard houses in cities such as Marrakech, Damascus or Cairo to buildings by twentieth-century architects like Hassan Fathy, Elie Mouyal or Abdelwahed El-Wakil. Numerous models and reconstructed room environments provide visitors with an opportunity to physically experience various building types, while domestic objects such as ceramics, textiles, tools and architectural elements offer impressions of everyday customs.
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The White City of Tel Aviv
(> 19/03/2008) - Vienna
Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
The "White City's" development is presented in the form of plans and models. Historic and contemporary photographs provide an insight into the architectural language of the time, showing the influence that the European heritage had on what was created there. he diversity of surface quality and colours of different plaster are shown, as are precise analyses of the detail planning (e.g., the different types of balconies). A selection of historic film footage provides an animated image of the development of the city between 1920 and 1958. The presentation video for UNESCO and the current project for the conservation of these buildings are also included in the exhibition.
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Esther Stocker
(> 6/04/2008) - Vienna
Museum Moderner Kunst
Born in 1974, Esther Stocker draws upon and at the same time undermines rationality and systematic thought with her reduced, geometric black, white and gray grids and semiotic systems with paintings which work with both images and space. The installation at the MUMOK is made up of identical white rods with a quadratic cross-section mounted in a black room at regular intervals to the floor, walls and ceiling.
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Coop Himmelb(l)au. Beyond the Blue
(> 11/05/2008) - Vienna
MAK Exhibition Hall
The exhibition shows the team’s recent and very latest projects. A spectacular space installation has been specially conceived for the MAK Exhibition Hall, the core of which shows the constant development of urban projects. Established in 1968 by Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky are among the most important and innovative architects of our time, who, with their unconventional, cutting-edge work, have laid the foundation stone for the unparalleled global career of the architectural studio. Models, sketches, drawings, projections and animations offer deep insight into older as well as future buildings and projects which trace the development in the architectural vocabulary and its path from experiment to buildings, thereby demonstrating that a vision can ultimately become reality.
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Alechinsky from A to Y
(> 30/03/2008) - Brussels
Fine Arts Museum
In honour of Pierre Alechinsky, a famous Belgian artist now aged 80, the retrospective exhibition shows many important works in close cooperation with the artist: paintings, drawings, engravings and book illustrations selected in national and international collections.
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Paysages d’architecture - 150 ans de dessins d’architectes belges
(> 20/04/2008) - Brussels
Fondation pour l’Architecture
Since 1986, the collection of architectural drawings and models of the « Archives d’Architecture Moderne “ has become considerably richer. Today there are almost two million documents representing the diversity of Belgian Architecture between the middle of the 19th and the beginning of the 21 st Century.The 200 drawings and models selected for this exhibition are particularly interesting in terms of quality and choice of styles, going from the dynamic Art Nouveau to the garden-cities, from the Art Déco to the stretched structures”style 58” and the contemporary projects.
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20 years Theo-design
(> 27/04/2008) - Ghent
Design Museum
“Theo” stands for self-willed design and is here for “positive and cheerful people”, for trendsetters, says in-house designer Patrick Hoet. Theo, by the way, is an anagram for Hoet.
The designer from Bruges has been working with the Theo firm from Antwerp for 20 years now. He designs the colourful and eccentric spectacle frames while his business partner Wim Somers takes care of execution and worldwide distribution. Annually, this amounts to about 50 to 60 designs.
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Instant Urbanism “Don’t Let your City exploit you, exploit your City”
(14/03 - 1/06/2008) - Copenhagen
Dansk Arkitektur Center
The exhibition shows international, alternative and action-based projects made by architects and artists, which focuse on mobility, light technical constructions, reuse and spontaneous solutions. The architects and artists in the exhibition draws on the avantgarde “situationists” from the 60s and 70s and their simple premise saying that citizens can choose for themselves how the surrounding architecture and urban landscape should look like and how they can live in it.
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Bodil Manz
(13/03 - 3/08/2008) - Copenhagen
Danish Museum Art & Design
Bodil Manz belongs in the international elite of ceramicists represented in important museums and private collections worldwide. Through 40 years Bodil Manz has developed a craftsmanship of which the parchment-thin and transparent cylinders are the pinnacle. Bodil Manz has always experimented and sought new challenges in expression and technique, she has worked with plaster tableaus, sand-cast porcelain squares and handmade paper. The exhibition at the Danish Museum of Art & Design illustrates the whole spectre of Bodil Manz’ work, from the expressionistic pieces of the early years of youth to the cylinders with geometric abstract graphics of the latest years, ‘Transparent Zen’
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Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation
(> 25/04/2008) - Bilbao
Museum Guggenheim
This exhibition features a compelling selection of approximately 200 artworks culled from a range of private and public collections in the United States. Six historical periods demonstrate how the art of each era both reflected and contributed to a complex visual narrative of a nation during times of discovery, growth and experimentation.
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The “Musée National Picasso” in Paris collection
(> 5/05/2008) - Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
An exceptional exhibition in which around four hundred works (painting, sculpture, ceramic, drawing, prints, notebooks and other documentary material) have been selected from the holdings of the Paris to form the most complete overview ever presented in Spain of Picasso's career. The show will not only be installed in the three temporary exhibition rooms of the museum but will extend into various permanent collection rooms where the Picasso works related to Guernica are displayed, thus complementing this fundamental period of the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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Asier Mendizabal
(> 18/05/2008) - Barcelona
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
This exhibition presents a monographic vision of Mendizabal’s work, focusing on certain works that explore the tension between urban environments that contain and generate collective consciousness on one hand, and semi-rural landscapes that shape certain kinds of associations (neighbourhoods, sympathies, groups, etc.) that are equally important on the other.
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Jean Tinguely
(3/03 - 8/06/2008) - Valencia
IVAM
Resulting from a cooperation with the Tinguely Museum, this exhibition shows the Works from the swiss sculptor and experimental artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) and enables the visitor to view the evolution of his creations and the richness of his extensive production.
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- Yrjö Kukkapuro designer
(> 6/04/2008) - Helsinki
Design Museum
This exhibition presents the career of designer and interior architect Yrjö Kukkapuro from his early works designed in 1956 to his most recent ones from 2007. Kukkapuro's oeuvre is characterized by a strict command of form and the carefully considered use of details. Throughout the decades his ideal has been the human body and its lawlike regularities. Kukkapuro has been the head designer of the Haimi, Lepokalusto and Avarte companies. He is known for his design of public spaces and as a solid collaborating partner with the architectural profession. This means that all Finns have at some stage of their lives sat in a chair designed by Kukkapuro, for example in a bank, theatre, auditorium or hospital.
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- Raili and Reima Pietilä. Challenging Modern Architecture
(> 25/05/2008) - Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture
One of the great names of Finnish 20th-century architecture, Pietilä rose to international fame when the established principles of modernism began to be questioned in the 1960s and 1970s. Raili (1926–) and Reima (1923–1993) Pietilä emphasize organic form and natural morphology, and their work is markedly distinctive from the mainstream of the latter half of the century. They created signature buildings experimenting with new forms, such as Dipoli in Espoo (1966), Main City Library in Tampere (1986) and the Presidents’s Residence in Helsinki (1993). Reima Pietilä was also an acute architectural theorist actively contributing to the discussion on the future of modernism in Finland as well as abroad.
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- Image and After
(> 11/01/2009) - Helsinki
Kiasma
Contemporary art often has nothing to do with images in frames, yet the concept and nature of the image remain fundamental questions of art. Image and After presents work from Kiasma’s collection that approach the themes of image and its absence from a variety of perspectives.
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Matières à cultiver
(> 16/03/2008) - Paris
Galerie VIA
An exhibition that aims at showing the new possibilities for using renewable materials: timber, multiplies, composite fibres of vegetable origin.
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Louise Bourgeois
(5/03 - 12/06/2008) - Paris
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou will be presenting the first extensive retrospective showcasing Louise Bourgeois' work since the exhibition that the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris held in 1995. This retrospective has been organised with the London Tate Modern and will feature around 200 sculptures, paintings, drawings and engravings she produced between 1940 and 2007, with a special focus on the past decade and this 95-year-old artist's knack for relentlessly rejuvenating her artistic language.
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Jean Prouvé
(> 25/03/2008) - London
Design Museum
The radical, functional and inspiring work of the French designer and engineer Jean Prouvé (1901 - 1984) will be shown in this first comprehensive overview of his work in the UK. With examples of his unique furniture design, architecture, drawings, film and photographs, the exhibition will present the enormous influence of Prouvé within the history of 20th Century design. This exhibition re-designed for the Design Museum was originated by the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany in cooperation with Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt and Design Museum Akihabara, Japan.
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Juan Muñoz A Retrospective
(> 27/04/2008) - London
Tate Modern
Spanish artist Juan Muñoz (1953-2001) came to international prominence in the mid 1980s with dramatic sculptural installations that placed the human figure in specific architectural environments. His reputation was built on his power to create an intriguing tension between the illusory and the real, the contrasting acts of looking and receiving, and the poignant isolation of the individual amongst a crowd. This exhibition includes well-known sculptures such as Many Times (1999), The Prompter (1988) and Conversation Piece (1996), the “raincoat drawings”, and important pieces with sound, light and mechanical elements.
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Take Away
(> 8/06/2008) - Glasgow
The Lighthouse
From the tiffin box to the lunch box, army canteen to sports bottle, stacking cup to coffee machine cup, Take Away looks at the culture of takeaway food and the objects associated with eating on the move. See tableware, cutlery, packaging and furniture, which have impacted our modern eating habits and the design of objects around us. This is the only opportunity to see this amazing exhibition from the Museum of Design, Zurich
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China Design Now
(15/03 - 13/06/2008) - London
Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery
The exhibition will explore the recent explosion of new design in China, from the 2008 Olympic stadium to the most interesting fashion and graphics. It will display the work of Chinese and international designers, focussing on architecture, fashion, youth culture and graphics as well as film, photography, product and furniture design and digital media.
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Annisettanta. Il decennio lungo del secolo breve
(> 30/03/2008) - Milan
Triennale Bovisa
The exhibition looks back at the 1970s by means of various installations based on keywords (travel, body, conflict, march, etc) or key Italian figures (Moro, Pasolini) from that decade.
At the same time, there are many exhibits devoted to the contamination and hybridisation of language and discourse that occurred at the time, with the focus on what the Seventies produced in the way of cinema, literature, design, music, figurative art, comics, theatre, fashion, mass media, technology, communication, sport and so on.
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Il mito della velocità. Arte, motori e società nell'Italia del ‘900
(19/02 - 18/05/2008) - Roma
Palazzo Esposizioni
Speed is the focal point of this fascinating and scenically spectacular exhibition devised by Contemporanea Progetti, a theme developed in all its forms through a chronological overview of the 20th century that goes on to explore a range of entrancing future scenarios.
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SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL MOBILE
(16 - 21/04/2008) - Milan
International Furniture Fair
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Frédéric Prat
(6/03 - 26/05/2008) - Luxembourg
MUDAM
Since the beginning of the Nineties, Frédéric Prat questions the pictorial process. Forsaking the three-dimensional illusion, the painter explores the essence of painting. The concern of his last works expresses a maculation according to color convolutions, pointing out the reality of the surface. The Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents a selection of paintings representative of the artists’ researches, including several works from the Mudam Collection.
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Clip/Stamp/Fold. The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X
(15/05 - 3/08/2008) - Oslo
Norsk Design - Architecture Center
An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate.
The exhibition takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities. Assembling all these remarkable documents for the first time offers a unique view of a key period of architectural innovation and challenges today's architects to provoke a similar intensity.
Illustration: Archigram 1964
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Amateurisme. Students' work
(> 20/03/2008) - Amsterdam
ARCAM
Are exhibited the Works resulting from the workshops, presided by Eric Kessels, creative manager of the Kessels Kramer Advertising Company and also “resident artist” with the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Under the leadership of 8 artisits chosen by Eric Kessels in 8 different disciplines, the students and the professors from this Academy search for the amateur origin of Art.
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Van Gogh’s scribbles
(> 30/03/2008) - Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum
Alongside drawings on actual drawing paper Van Gogh also scribbled sketches on all kinds of less obvious surfaces. Sometimes he might draw on the back of an envelope, the endpaper of his sketchbook, on the back of a painting and on the reverse of the sheets of paper on which he pasted illustrations cut from magazines. This presentation brings these drawings together for the first time.
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The Ultimate Within: Dom van der laan (1904 - 1991)
(> 30/03/2008) - Rotterdam
NAI
A retrospective of the work of the Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan. Besides buildings, Van der Laan also designed furniture, silverwork and priestly garments, as well as taking an interest in town and country planning. He never completed his architectural training, but after entering the monastery he resumed his study of architecture. He taught theory in the three-year course in church architecture organised by the Catholic church. The upper church of the monastery in Lemiers is regarded as his most important work. The exhibition will cover three monasteries, his interior designs and furniture.
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Art Nouveau, tijdens laatste tsaren
(> 5/05/2008) - Amsterdam
Hermitage
René Lalique, Vase 'Bacchants', Paris, c. 1924
The objects produced within this movement are the highlights of the Western decorative arts collection in the Hermitage in St Petersburg. This collection of Art Nouveau has not previously been on show in the Netherlands. Amongst the major works are the gifts to the last tsars made by the glassmakers Émile Gallé and the Daum brothers; works by René Lalique and Carl Fabergé will also be included.
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Magnum - 60 Years of Photoqraphy
(> 12/05/2008) - Amsterdam
Stedelijke Museum
This retrospective is being presented to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the renowned Magnum photo and press agency. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of Magnum year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed. They have recorded every major aspect of our times, from armed conflicts and revolutions through to everyday life and outstanding personalities. Their insight and vision have enabled them to create iconic images which have been disseminated through the international press to become part of our society’s collective memory.
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Robert Rauschenberg: Travelling 70-76
(> 30/03/2008) - Porto
Fundação Serralves
This exhibition will be one of the most important of the year - presenting the work by one of the 20th-century's leading and most prolific artists, for the first time ever in Portugal. This is the first retrospective of Rauschenberg work produced in the 1970s - an almost unknown area...
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Genesis - The Art of Creation
(> 27/04/2008) - Bern
Zentrum Paul Klee
The project is based on a concept designed in cooperation with the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands, expanded for the Zentrum Paul Klee. It is a topic that plays a central role in art and genetics.
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Action Painting
(> 12/05/2008) - Basle
Fondation Beyeler
The exhibition is devoted to aspects of gestural painting from 1945 to 1965. As the history of modern painting ran its course, works of art began ever more clearly to reflect artists' individuality. Paintings increasingly took on the character of a record of their personality, as expressed through the movements of their painting hand. This development culminated in the gestural painting of the postwar period, especially in that of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), whose abstract compositions inspired the term "Action Painting"
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Wouldn't it be nice... - 10 Utopias in Art and Design
(> 25/05/2008) - Zürich
Museum für Gestaltung
Art and design have had an enduringly productive relationship. Artists and designers, as well as graphic artists, fashion designers, and architects, share common strategies, methods, and aims. While some artists employ design strategies to make socially critical statements, others use design as a way of reflecting everyday phenomena, emotions, or conceptual approaches. Many designers on the other hand, having dispensed with any belief in the ideal of neutrality, intervene increasingly in social, political, ethical, or ecological discourses. This exhibition confronts ten contemporary positions on the edge of reality, on the border of what is possible.
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Art Machines - Machine Art
(5/03 - 29/06/2008) - Basle
Museum Tinguely
In general, we assume that artists make art - but what happens, if machines produce art? Do artists then become engineers? What is the meaning of the apparent withdrawal of artists from the creative act and what consequences does this have for the artwork’s originality and uniqueness? And what is an artwork in the first place: the machine, the product, or the act of its production? What role is granted the viewer in the course of production: interaction or exclusion? Starting with Jean Tinguely’s drawing machines from the 1950s, the exhibition jointly organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum Tinguely will present art machines from different ages and contexts through to the present day.
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