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"ART-WORLDS IN DIALOGUE"
1999-11-05 until 2000-03-19
Museum Ludwig
Cologne, , DE Germany

In this comprehensive exhibition on the art of the 20th Century, works will be presented which were created under the profound influence of various cultures. Beginning with masterpieces by Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Emil Nolde, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Wifredo Lam, Isamu Noguchi, Ad Reinhardt, and others, the art of our century will be presented in light of the global dialogue between cultures. The analysis of this dialogue ranges from early tribal art to the highly differentiated, advanced civilizations of South America and Asia. Whereas at the beginning and through the middle of this century, this dialogue was initiated primarily by artists living in Europe and South and North America, since the 1960s there has been increasingly intensive participation on the part of artists living in Asia, Africa and Australia.

These dialogues are as multifarious as the artists who conduct them. The approximately 120 artists in this exhibition have each found their own, highly individual ways of exploring and examining one or more cultures. If, in the early years of this century, this exploration and analysis took the form of visits to anthropological museums or journeys to foreign continents in search of the primal, today it is, more than anything else, political and social issues which move artists to live in exile or as nomads in the West. Time and again, artists today also often make conscious decisions to live in other cultural environments. The contemporary artists represented in this exhibition live for the most part in multicultural societies that have been influenced by global dialogues.

In addition to masterpieces from the Classical Modern period, the exhibition also presents works by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alighiero Boetti, Lothar Baumgarten, Francesco Clemente, Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Anish Kapoor, Ana Mendieta and Nam June Paik, as well as works by younger artists of the 1990s. Many of these artists work with new media and site-specific installations. The artworks in this exhibition demonstrate that the development of a universal language of art, accompanied by a consciousness of one's own identity, will undoubtedly become essential factors for the art of the future.


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