TRACING THE GRID
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Kleiner Schlossplatz 1 - Stuttgart
4/5/2012 - 7/10/2012
Artists: Carl Andre, Frank Badur, Horst Bartnig, Thomas Bayrle, William Betts, Enrico Castellani , Michiel Ceulers, Chuck Close, Gianni Colombo, Dag Przybilla DAG, Hanne Darboven, Günther Förg, Katharina Gaenssler, Karl Otto Götz, Eva Grubinger, Raymond Hains, Mona Hatoum, Katharina Hinsberg, Jürgen Klauke, Michael Klier, Attila Kovacs, Christina Kubisch, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Max H. Mahlmann, Agnes Martin, Pia Maria Martin, Gerold Miller, Manfred Mohr, François Morellet, Sarah Morris, Carsten Nicolai, Chris Oakley, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Peter Roehr, Fiene Scharp, Astrid Schindler, Jan J. Schoonhoven, Tina Schulz, Tim Stapel, Esther Stocker, Günther Uecker, Timm Ullrichs, Reinhard Voigt, Simone Westerwinter, Christopher Wool, Annett Zinsmeister, Heimo Zobernig, Beat Zoderer
Like no other structure, the grid defines art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This has been extensively researched in relation to the avant-garde, Piet Mondrian, and the Bauhaus movement; on the other hand, the significance of the grid in art since 1945 has never before been represented in an overview.
The exhibition fills this gap and illuminates the importance of the grid in art, presenting examples from around fifty artists. Here we can see two main trends: in concrete and constructivist art, the grid is appreciated for its formal severity and as a principle of repetition. Parallel to this, artists such as Sigmar Polke and Roy Lichtenstein adopted the grid as a social model forming the basis for the media world, architecture, town planning, or data acquisition. Today many young artists such as Esther Stocker, Sarah Morris, Michiel Ceulers, and Tim Stapel no longer distinguish between these two approaches, but are fascinated by the immense creative potential of the grid structure.
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Kleiner Schlossplatz 1 - Stuttgart
4/5/2012 - 7/10/2012
Artists: Carl Andre, Frank Badur, Horst Bartnig, Thomas Bayrle, William Betts, Enrico Castellani , Michiel Ceulers, Chuck Close, Gianni Colombo, Dag Przybilla DAG, Hanne Darboven, Günther Förg, Katharina Gaenssler, Karl Otto Götz, Eva Grubinger, Raymond Hains, Mona Hatoum, Katharina Hinsberg, Jürgen Klauke, Michael Klier, Attila Kovacs, Christina Kubisch, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Max H. Mahlmann, Agnes Martin, Pia Maria Martin, Gerold Miller, Manfred Mohr, François Morellet, Sarah Morris, Carsten Nicolai, Chris Oakley, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Peter Roehr, Fiene Scharp, Astrid Schindler, Jan J. Schoonhoven, Tina Schulz, Tim Stapel, Esther Stocker, Günther Uecker, Timm Ullrichs, Reinhard Voigt, Simone Westerwinter, Christopher Wool, Annett Zinsmeister, Heimo Zobernig, Beat Zoderer
Like no other structure, the grid defines art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This has been extensively researched in relation to the avant-garde, Piet Mondrian, and the Bauhaus movement; on the other hand, the significance of the grid in art since 1945 has never before been represented in an overview.
The exhibition fills this gap and illuminates the importance of the grid in art, presenting examples from around fifty artists. Here we can see two main trends: in concrete and constructivist art, the grid is appreciated for its formal severity and as a principle of repetition. Parallel to this, artists such as Sigmar Polke and Roy Lichtenstein adopted the grid as a social model forming the basis for the media world, architecture, town planning, or data acquisition. Today many young artists such as Esther Stocker, Sarah Morris, Michiel Ceulers, and Tim Stapel no longer distinguish between these two approaches, but are fascinated by the immense creative potential of the grid structure.
