|
Indepth Arts News:
"Heaven: An Exhibition that will Break your Heart"
1999-12-09 until 2000-02-27
Tate Museum
Liverpool, ,
UK United Kingdom
A timely exhibition for the beginning of a new Millennium,
Heaven brings together the work of a diverse group of
international artists working in fashion, video, sculpture and
photography.
Heaven considers the appropriation of religious imagery by
secular society. The current cult of beauty and the perfect body
can be linked to religious dogma which equates beauty with
virtue. In this exhibition the famous are graced and the glamorous
are blessed: Elvis, Princess Diana and Madonna have achieved
the status of saints. A selection of fashion items worn by the rich
and famous are included together with a series of photographs of
Graceland by Ralph Burns and sculpture by Jeff Koons. Kirsten
Geisler's images of the robotic head of a woman contrast with
Orlan's videos documenting the plastic surgery she has
undertaken in her quest for perfection. Mariko Mori's
photograph of an artificial, sun-drenched beach represents the
new paradise.
Heaven will include work that transforms high art into low art
and vice versa. Witty and energetic the work also considers
issues about the sublime, consumerism, authorship, sexuality,
nature and artifice.
Look at the Heaven web site on http://heaven.komed.de
Exhibition organised by Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Supported by
IGEDO Company 1949-1999, Stadt-Sparkasse Düsseldorf, the
British Council, Cologne and the Association Française d'Action
Artistique, Paris.
Related Links:
| | 
|
