Daimler Contemporary
20 June – 21 September 2008
Private/Corporate
V
of the Collection Lafrenz, Hamburg, and Daimler
John Mc Cracken
Mandrake, 1989
Preannouncement
'Private/Corporate V' is the fifth in a series of exhibitions, in which the Daimler Art Collection presents itself in a dialogue with an international private collection once a year.
The Lafrenz Collection concentrates on aspects of Minimal and Concept Art, Post Painterly Abstraction, Land Art and Arte Povera. Introduction..
The Private/Corporate Exhibitions
Since 2002, cooperation has always revolved around a focusing on what is characteristic for both the private collector invited and the development of the Daimler Art Collection: conceptual trends and international contemporary positions of 'reduced art' (dialogue with Paul Maenz, Berlin, 2002), minimal and post-minimal art (dialogue with Ileana Sonnabend, New York, 2003), German positions in the borderland of abstraction, figuration and minimalism (dialogue with Heliod Spiekermann, Düsseldorf, 2005).
Probably the greatest challenge for the Daimler Art Collection lay in the invitation to Anupam Poddar (*1974), one of India's most important collectors. Insight into the specific 'language' of Indian art revealed new aspects of the Daimler Collection, and gave us the courage to try out possible juxtapositions of narration and reduction.