Schirn Kunsthalle

Diorama

Inventing Illusion

06 Oct 2017 - 21 Jan 2018

KENT MONKMAN, BÊTE NOIRE, 2014, SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION (MIXED MEDIA), IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
JEFF WALL, THE GIANT, 1992, LEUCHTKASTEN MIT TRANSPARENTER FOTOGRAFIE, PRIVATSAMMLUNG, © JEFF WALL
DIORAMA
Inventing Illusion
6 October - 21 January 2018

The SCHIRN presents a major exhi­bi­tion dedi­cated to the cultural history of vision. It focuses on the diorama, which is used to recon­struct and real­is­ti­cally stage events, stories, and habi­tats with the aid of various means. Invented in the nine­teenth century by the French painter and photog­raphy pioneer Louis Daguerre as a play­house enlivened with light effects, it, as a glass show­case became the presen­ta­tion form par excel­lence for natural history museums.
The diorama has been a crucial source of inspi­ra­tion to this day: Numerous artists of the twen­tieth and twenty-first centuries address ques­tions of staged vision in their works by ques­tioning and dissolving the illu­sion of a recon­structed reality.
The exhi­bi­tion presents impres­sive dioramas and works by such artists as Mark Dion, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Mathieu Mercier, Kent Monkman, Hiroshi Sugi­moto, and Jeff Wall.

The exhi­bi­tion was orga­nized by the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANK­FURT in collab­o­ra­tion with the Palais de Tokyo, Paris
 

Tags: Mark Dion, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Mathieu Mercier, Kent Monkman, Jeff Wall