Von Bildern
Subtitle: Strategien der Aneignung, 29. August 2015-24. Januar 2016
By: Soren Grammel, Svenja Held
Contributors: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
Series: Manual -- no. 4; Manual (Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel) -- no. 4.
Publisher: Kunstmuseum Basel
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783720402262
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions
Description: Von Bildern presents art based on the appropriation of existing pictures and genres. Such processes often entail transfers from one medium into another: a photograph is filmed, a painting is photographed. Appropriation adds a new perspective on the content of the material being appropriated and calls its authenticity and authorship in question. It may articulate a critical study of visual models and blueprints from mass and entertainment media and the templates of identity they transmit. Or it may point up the forever fluid borders and commerce between the visual arts and the culture industry. It can tell stories of the media trajectories along which patterns and forms migrate between the genres and apparatuses of distribution. Or it scrutinizes practices that evolve in the interplay between the publicity generated by institutions and private marketing. The exhibition considers strategies of appropriation as a form of discourse in and about pictures. It widens the scope of reflection beyond the formal qualities of pictures to examine the various institutional and social settings and channels in which they originate and circulate.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (August 29, 2015 -- January 24, 2016).