October 2001
Geometrical Affairs
New acquisitions and works from the collection
Josef Albers, John Armleder, Robert Barry, Max Bill, Ulrich Erben, Adolf Fleischmann, Günther Förg, Camille Graeser, Gail Hastings, Gottfried Honegger, Giulio Paolini, Peter Roehr, Karin Sander, Anita Stöhr-Weber, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Hermann de Vries
Daimler Contemporary
Long night of the museums
2 February 2002
open - 2 am
27 October - 3 February 2002
Gottfried Honegger
Tableau-Relief
P.885,
1983
Josef Albers
Homage to the
Square:
"Between 2 Scarlets", 1962
Camille Graeser
Harmonikale
Konstruktion,
1951
John Armleder,
untitled, 1998
Gail Haistings
Difficult Art
Decisions,
1998
Sylvie Fleury Zylon Painting, 1994
Karin Sander
Break Room,
Room 38 / House 136 Untertürkheim,
1992
The Daimler Art Collection was started in 1977. It focuses on geometrical and abstract concepts in 20th century art, and shows how these ideas are developing on the contemporary art scene world-wide.
The "Geometrical Affairs" exhibition includes selected works spanning six decades, starting with classical pictures by artists like Josef Albers or Adolf Fleischmann and ending up with "Sculptural Situations" by the young Australian artist Gail Hastings.
This selection shows that conceptual, minimalist and constructive questions can interact in very exciting ways, and that strong ideologies can lose some of their force when faced with an opposite view stated in visual form.This exhibition juxtaposes essentially black-and-white serial painting and object art with pictorial ensembles ablaze with colour and vitality.
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