Katharina Grosse
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May 1, 2009 – July 26, 2009
State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg
Klarissenplatz
Postal Adress: Luitpoldstraße 5
90402 Nuremberg
This series of exhibitions due to be held along the façade will be launched in spectacular fashion by the internationally acclaimed artist Katharina Grosse. She has conceived a work specifically for this highly unusual, upwardly sweeping spatial situation and will also be installing a colour sculpture, over five metres high, on the square in front of the museum, which will establish a correspondence with the indoor galleries.
In her works, Katharina Grosse combines canvases with objects, interiors and entire sections of buildings, piles of earth and vast spherical arrangements with painterly dynamism, causing the pictural surface to merge increasingly into the volume of the space. How can colour open up space and achieve depth, or remain flat and without volume? What happens to architecture and the objects within it when they are coated with colour, and where, ultimately, is the viewer’s perspective directed in the opposing lines of vision from the outside to the inside and vice versa? These are the issues addressed by a notion of painting that has long since stepped beyond the boundaries of the canvas and entered the surrounding space.
Neues Museum
State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg
Klarissenplatz
Postal Adress: Luitpoldstraße 5
90402 Nuremberg
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