Vortrag: Kühne Bildgründe. Die Dürer-Schleifen und Venedig-Fotografien von Sigmar Polke

In the organizer's words:

The eight-part series of loop paintings by Sigmar Polke fascinates with its combination of moving background and bold loops. Polke, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, adopts the filigree lines from Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Great Triumphal Chariot of Emperor Maximilian I (1522) on an enlarged scale, thereby negotiating virtues such as Solertia (prudence), Experientia (experience) or Audatia (boldness).

The loop paintings were central works in his presentation "Athanor" in the German pavilion in 1986, for which Polke won the Golden Lion at the 42nd Venice Biennale. Three of these loops are illustrated in the accompanying catalog. The publication also brings together a large number of experimental photographs that the artist took on site in the pavilion in the Giardini of the lagoon city in preparation for his contribution to the Biennale.

Dietmar Rübel's lecture will discuss the loop pictures, taking into account the history and theory of their materiality. The use of silver and graphite dust, resin and sepia will be understood as a complex structure of history, science and art that calls for differentiated processes of reflection. The photographic and painterly material experiments will then be discussed in a cross-media round table.

With a lecture by Dietmar Rübel, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, followed by a panel with Anna Polke, Anna Polke Foundation, Dietmar Rübel and Michael Trier, restorer. Moderated by Verena Hein and Franziska Kunze, Pinakothek der Moderne/Modern Art Collection

In cooperation with the Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Part of Sigmar Polke. Athanor NOW, a project of the Anna Polke Foundation.


Pinakothek der Moderne | Ernst-von-Siemens-Auditorium
Start: 19.00, Admission: 18.30
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