Eve Arnold
Hommage to the major Magnum photographer
19 January to 18 May 2014
One of the most important women photographers of the twentieth century, Eve Arnold, is honoured within this wide-ranging retrospective. She began as a self-taught photographer in the 1940s, was taken on at an early stage by the Magnum photo agency and achieved photographic history during the course of her life over almost 100 years. The beguiling fashion shots in Harlem, the enduring cooperation with Marilyn Monroe, the observance of the beginnings of life, her political documentations as well of course, and the famous photos taken on her travels to Afghanistan, South Africa and China all track her highly unique and truly impressive pictorial language.
Andy Warhol
Pop Artist
19 January to 18 May 2014
Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, album covers and the assassination of John F. Kennedy: Andy Warhol is one of the most important exponents of Pop Art, and he was the artist who rendered social themes, daily media and mass products presentable as art. He confronted observers with familiar objects snatched from an artificial, consumption-oriented and superficial world.
The use of the new technique of screenprinting used in advertising offered him unlimited possibilities and characterised the inherent aesthetics of his images, along with their high recognition factor. Interpreting everyday objects artistically and producing en masse – Warhol created symbols and icons that assert the same level of mesmerisation today.
Hair! Hair in the world of art Masterpieces from the Ludwig Collection,
from Antiquity until Warhol from Tilman Riemenschneider to Cindy Sherman
22 September 2013 to January 2014
Hair has exerted a particular fascination with people from all cultures over the millennia. Deemed the seat of the soul, a symbol for the elemental vitality of people or as a central bearer of erotic messages, hair has played a particular role within all religions, symbolising humility by cutting hair or getting closer to the Almighty with real hair on crucifixes in the Christian Middle Ages. Fertility or the loss of power is reflected in opulent or cut hair, and status, gender or the membership of a group is signalled by open or concealed hair, via the haircut itself or in the form of the 'bonnet'. The colour of hair ranges from the red of the traitorous Judas and affiliation within the world of witches to the beguiling blond of Maria Magdalena and Marilyn Monroe and the deep black of the femme fatale. The curls of beloved people were also kept as a sign of friendship.
The art of the 20th and 21st centuries discovered new meanings in hair. Presented repulsively or else with the intention of stirring up desire, surprising in an isolated context or fitting into everyday life, hair is now seen in a great diversity of forms. In fact the metamorphoses appear to have absolutely no limits at all.
Until now, there was never an exhibition that got to the roots of this particular form of human embellishment. Based on the generous and qualitative holdings in the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig, the show traces the ways of artists over the centuries and how they have interpreted hair.
The concept of this exhibition takes a nod to the idea of Peter and Irene Ludwig to present their artworks within ever new contexts and bringing them together with other works from other collections. The works from many centuries and diverse countries makes this possible: "detecting what separates and experiencing what brings together". (Peter Ludwig)
Eve Arnold - Hommage to the major Magnum photographer
Eve Arnold
Hommage to the major Magnum photographer
19 January to 18 May 2014
One of the most important women photographers of the twentieth century, Eve Arnold, is honoured within this wide-ranging retrospective. She began as a self-taught photographer in the 1940s, was taken on at an early stage by the Magnum photo agency and achieved photographic history during the course of her life over almost 100 years. The beguiling fashion shots in Harlem, the enduring cooperation with Marilyn Monroe, the observance of the beginnings of life, her political documentations as well of course, and the famous photos taken on her travels to Afghanistan, South Africa and China all track her highly unique and truly impressive pictorial language.
Andy Warhol
Pop Artist
19 January to 18 May 2014
Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, album covers and the assassination of John F. Kennedy: Andy Warhol is one of the most important exponents of Pop Art, and he was the artist who rendered social themes, daily media and mass products presentable as art. He confronted observers with familiar objects snatched from an artificial, consumption-oriented and superficial world.
The use of the new technique of screenprinting used in advertising offered him unlimited possibilities and characterised the inherent aesthetics of his images, along with their high recognition factor. Interpreting everyday objects artistically and producing en masse – Warhol created symbols and icons that assert the same level of mesmerisation today.
Hair! Hair in the world of art Masterpieces from the Ludwig Collection,
Hair! Hair in the world of art Masterpieces from the Ludwig Collection,
from Antiquity until Warhol from Tilman Riemenschneider to Cindy Sherman
22 September 2013 to January 2014
Hair has exerted a particular fascination with people from all cultures over the millennia. Deemed the seat of the soul, a symbol for the elemental vitality of people or as a central bearer of erotic messages, hair has played a particular role within all religions, symbolising humility by cutting hair or getting closer to the Almighty with real hair on crucifixes in the Christian Middle Ages. Fertility or the loss of power is reflected in opulent or cut hair, and status, gender or the membership of a group is signalled by open or concealed hair, via the haircut itself or in the form of the 'bonnet'. The colour of hair ranges from the red of the traitorous Judas and affiliation within the world of witches to the beguiling blond of Maria Magdalena and Marilyn Monroe and the deep black of the femme fatale. The curls of beloved people were also kept as a sign of friendship.
The art of the 20th and 21st centuries discovered new meanings in hair. Presented repulsively or else with the intention of stirring up desire, surprising in an isolated context or fitting into everyday life, hair is now seen in a great diversity of forms. In fact the metamorphoses appear to have absolutely no limits at all.
Until now, there was never an exhibition that got to the roots of this particular form of human embellishment. Based on the generous and qualitative holdings in the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig, the show traces the ways of artists over the centuries and how they have interpreted hair.
The concept of this exhibition takes a nod to the idea of Peter and Irene Ludwig to present their artworks within ever new contexts and bringing them together with other works from other collections. The works from many centuries and diverse countries makes this possible: "detecting what separates and experiencing what brings together". (Peter Ludwig)
LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen
Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 46
46049 Oberhausen
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