Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography
Sep 17, 2010 - Jan 09, 2011
Teutloff Photo + Video Collection meets Wallraf
Helmut Newton & Ingres, Nan Goldin & Fran莽ois Boucher, J眉rgen Klauke & Titian, Paul McCarthy & Wilhelm Leibl, Jack Pierson & Bartholom盲us Bruyn the Elder 鈥� these are just five of the approximately fifty unusual dialogues the Wallraf will be staging in autumn 2010. Under the title 鈥淒o or Die - The Human Condition in Painting and Photography鈥� outstanding items from the TEUTLOFF PHOTO + VIDEO COLLECTION will meet selected works owned by the museum. At the heart of the exhibition will be the glamour and misery of Mankind. The photographs and paintings oscillate between the polarities of birth and death, happiness and suffering, confidence and despair.
The direct comparison between painting and photography shows how the old picture, composition and pathos formulae have continued into the present day, a fact clearly demonstrated by the specially chosen quotes in the works of Anna and Bernhard Blume and Boris Mikhailov. At the same time the formal and thematic breaks with tradition that characterize, sometimes shockingly, certain photographic works from the Teutloff Collection, also stand out. They lay a trail to existential themes such as 鈥渂ody awareness鈥� and 鈥渟exual identity鈥�, which, depicted so explicitly, would have been unthinkable for the painters of past ages.
The Wallraf will contrast more than 80 works from the wide-ranging and impressive collection of Lutz Teutloff (photographic and video art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries) with around 50 rarely shown masterpieces from its own collection (European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century).
Helmut Newton & Ingres, Nan Goldin & Fran莽ois Boucher, J眉rgen Klauke & Titian, Paul McCarthy & Wilhelm Leibl, Jack Pierson & Bartholom盲us Bruyn the Elder 鈥� these are just five of the approximately fifty unusual dialogues the Wallraf will be staging in autumn 2010. Under the title 鈥淒o or Die - The Human Condition in Painting and Photography鈥� outstanding items from the TEUTLOFF PHOTO + VIDEO COLLECTION will meet selected works owned by the museum. At the heart of the exhibition will be the glamour and misery of Mankind. The photographs and paintings oscillate between the polarities of birth and death, happiness and suffering, confidence and despair.
The direct comparison between painting and photography shows how the old picture, composition and pathos formulae have continued into the present day, a fact clearly demonstrated by the specially chosen quotes in the works of Anna and Bernhard Blume and Boris Mikhailov. At the same time the formal and thematic breaks with tradition that characterize, sometimes shockingly, certain photographic works from the Teutloff Collection, also stand out. They lay a trail to existential themes such as 鈥渂ody awareness鈥� and 鈥渟exual identity鈥�, which, depicted so explicitly, would have been unthinkable for the painters of past ages.
The Wallraf will contrast more than 80 works from the wide-ranging and impressive collection of Lutz Teutloff (photographic and video art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries) with around 50 rarely shown masterpieces from its own collection (European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century).
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Helmut Newton & Ingres, Nan Goldin & Fran莽ois Boucher, J眉rgen Klauke & Titian, Paul McCarthy & Wilhelm Leibl, Jack Pierson & Bartholom盲us Bruyn the Elder 鈥� these are just five of the approximately fifty unusual dialogues the Wallraf will be staging in autumn 2010. Under the title 鈥淒o or Die - The Human Condition in Painting and Photography鈥� outstanding items from the TEUTLOFF PHOTO + VIDEO COLLECTION will meet selected works owned by the museum. At the heart of the exhibition will be the glamour and misery of Mankind. The photographs and paintings oscillate between the polarities of birth and death, happiness and suffering, confidence and despair.
The direct comparison between painting and photography shows how the old picture, composition and pathos formulae have continued into the present day, a fact clearly demonstrated by the specially chosen quotes in the works of Anna and Bernhard Blume and Boris Mikhailov. At the same time the formal and thematic breaks with tradition that characterize, sometimes shockingly, certain photographic works from the Teutloff Collection, also stand out. They lay a trail to existential themes such as 鈥渂ody awareness鈥� and 鈥渟exual identity鈥�, which, depicted so explicitly, would have been unthinkable for the painters of past ages.
The Wallraf will contrast more than 80 works from the wide-ranging and impressive collection of Lutz Teutloff (photographic and video art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries) with around 50 rarely shown masterpieces from its own collection (European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century).
Helmut Newton & Ingres, Nan Goldin & Fran莽ois Boucher, J眉rgen Klauke & Titian, Paul McCarthy & Wilhelm Leibl, Jack Pierson & Bartholom盲us Bruyn the Elder 鈥� these are just five of the approximately fifty unusual dialogues the Wallraf will be staging in autumn 2010. Under the title 鈥淒o or Die - The Human Condition in Painting and Photography鈥� outstanding items from the TEUTLOFF PHOTO + VIDEO COLLECTION will meet selected works owned by the museum. At the heart of the exhibition will be the glamour and misery of Mankind. The photographs and paintings oscillate between the polarities of birth and death, happiness and suffering, confidence and despair.
The direct comparison between painting and photography shows how the old picture, composition and pathos formulae have continued into the present day, a fact clearly demonstrated by the specially chosen quotes in the works of Anna and Bernhard Blume and Boris Mikhailov. At the same time the formal and thematic breaks with tradition that characterize, sometimes shockingly, certain photographic works from the Teutloff Collection, also stand out. They lay a trail to existential themes such as 鈥渂ody awareness鈥� and 鈥渟exual identity鈥�, which, depicted so explicitly, would have been unthinkable for the painters of past ages.
The Wallraf will contrast more than 80 works from the wide-ranging and impressive collection of Lutz Teutloff (photographic and video art of the late 20th and early 21st centuries) with around 50 rarely shown masterpieces from its own collection (European painting from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century).
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Sunday
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday - Friday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Obenmarspforten Cologne, Germany 50667
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