Sweeter than Honey. Ein Panorama der Written Art
In the organizer's words:
The Written Art Collection is unique in its collection profile. For the first time, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst in the Pinakothek der Moderne is dedicating a comprehensive special exhibition to the holdings of scriptural and text-based art. Around 60 artistic positions invite visitors to discover the panorama of Written Art in a 1,200 square meter exhibition space and to explore the interrelationship between writing and image in all its facets. The selection of works presents writing as an artistic medium and material from the mid-20th century to the present day.
The phenomenon of writing in images is explored both in handwritten expression and in calligraphy and typography. Starting with the Informel movement of the 1950s and moving on to conceptual art since the 1960s, the more than 100 works on display demonstrate the continuity of the significance of written art across generations and cultures right up to the present day. Artists invent imaginative alphabets and abstract sign languages, write poems and calendar entries, quote from literature and political documents, translate thoughts and conversations into sprayed, graphic, gestural or embroidered messages. The performativity of writing can be experienced in material and physical traces in painting and photography as well as in expansive works.
With works by Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Siah Armajani, Sophie Calle, Mohammad Ehsai, Katharina Grosse, Susan Hefuna, Rebecca Horn, Adam Pendleton, Morita Shiryū, Kazuo Shiraga, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mark Tobey, Qiu Zhijie, Lawrence Weiner, among others.
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