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About the exhibition
Invitation to hold your breath and take a deep breath
Air is omnipresent and yet elusive. It is always in motion and connects living beings - across ecosystems and geological eras. We humans also live in and through the air: we breathe it in and out around 20,000 times a day. And yet we behave as if we are not dependent on it. Through our actions, we change the air and thus increasingly also our living conditions.
The exhibition takes these changes as an opportunity to examine not only the physical properties of air but also its social impact - both locally and globally. Follow the movements of air through different ecosystems and geological eras and across national borders.
At the beginning of the exhibition tour, an air archive brings together personal air and perceptions of air. Fog catchers, which are used to filter water out of the air in places with low precipitation, capture air movements and air phenomena for visitors in the exhibition. A giant air conditioning pipe tells of the attempts to bring the air under control.
Numerous works of art and interactive stations are integrated into the exhibition, inviting visitors to discuss global environmental issues related to the state of the air. With an “emissions memory”, for example, t
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15 Sep 2015 loom 22 Revered 2016
Anna & Bernhard Blume
Transcendental Constructivism
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German and International Art after 1945
The intention was for his thoughts and actions to be promulgated in this way throughout society, where they would achieve their impact.
Extremely diverse in nature with respect to their respective media, the multiples represent in a complex manner Beuys’ entire oeuvre, which revolves around humanist, political and ecological issues. Their contentual complexity stands in contrast to the supposed simplicity of the materials of which they make use. Fat and felt, for example, point to basic human experiences such as food, warmth and shelter. The insulating material stands not only for bodily, but also for mental warmth. The multiples are often relics from Beuys’ Action Art or make reference to earlier drawings. Frequently, however, they are the sole expression of a specific idea which Beuys found exclusively in the medium of the multiple: for example in Capri-Batterie (1985), in which nature appears as a source of energy, as a self-loading battery.