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
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