Sterne
Subtitle: Kosmische Kunst von 1900 bis heute
By: Herausgeberinnen, Hemma Schmutz, Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller, Sabine Fellner
Contributors: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Publisher: Verlag für moderne Kunst
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Wien
Language: ger
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9783903153592
Subjects: Stars in art; Exhibitions; Cosmology in art; Modern Art
Description: The endless expanse of the night sky before our eyes, the shining stars almost close enough to touch! It's gone now, the dark night. It has been conquered by electric light. Buildings, squares and streets are brightly illuminated at night. The lights of the big cities have blocked out the starry sky that can now hardly be seen. Light smog has meanwhile robbed a third of the world population of the view of the Milky Way, shooting stars and glowing comets. The complex and cross-media exhibition provides insights into the relationship between human beings and the stars, which is the subject of research, romance, fortune-telling, but also of threat scenarios. Dreamily, humorously, poetically, and also ironically, the artists of the 20th and 21st century have probed humanity's relationship to the endlessness of the starry sky, engaging with the twinkling of the stars and the current loss of that light. Exhibition: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria (29.09.2017-14.01.2018).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, September 29, 2017-January 14, 2018.

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