Avatar und Atavismus
Subtitle: outside der Avantgarde
By: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf ; Hrsg. Veit Loers und Gregor Jansen
Contributors: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Publisher: Kehrer; Kehrer Verlag; Et Al
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9783868286649
Subjects: Outsider art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Outside der Avantgarde
Description: The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf abruptly lays an archetypical anchor in the art of the 1980 with their exhibition Avatar und Atavismus. Renowned exponents of Western art belonging to different generations were the ones who revolted against the achievements of modernism, abstraction and conceptuality in a way in which these have never been addressed before. Employing a process of assembling and juxtaposing works of art they visualize a phenomenon in which a surprising emergence of heads, hands and other bodily signals brings animistic moments in play, that express themselves in the "fragmented body," in the animal as alter ego as well as other codes of the "Savage Mind." Thereby the exhibition features works by renowned artists that veer between obsession, narration and irony, as had become possible after the post-modern turn of 1978. Works from the Paul Maenz Collection opens the "savage" decade with names like Francesco Clemente, Walter Dahn, Martin Disler and Georg Jiri Dokoupil. The subsequent decade is distinguished by an animistic chain of works by artists who invent new avatars e.g. Franz West and Rosemarie Trockel.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, August 22-November 8, 2015.

Text in English and German.
Table of contents: title: Ausstellungsansichten = Exhibition views; title: Von Inkarnationen und Ur-Ahnen : ein Vorwort = Incarnations and original ancestors : a foreword / Gregor Jansen; title: Monstra der Phantasie : von Köpfen, Lemuren, Wichten und Hasshauben = Monstrosities of the imagination : heads, lemurs, imps, and hate masks / Veit Loers; title: Ausgestellte Arbeiten = Works in the exhibition; title: Überlegungen und Fragestellungen zur Outsider-Kunst und dem Thema der Ausstellung = Thoughts and questions on outsider art and the theme of the exhibition / Pia Witzmann; title: Ausgestellte Outsider-Arbeiten = Outsider works in the exhibition; title: Outside, inside : Außergewöhnliche Kunst : über die neurogenetischen Grundlagen unseres bildnerischen Empfindens und Geschmacks = Outside, inside : extraordinary art : the neurogenetic foundations of our artistic sensibility and taste / Karl-Heinz Menzen.