Small: An exploration of miniature
Miniature is a matter of perspective. When you look at the small it is not about centimeters but about relations, references, and a special way of seeing.
Miniatures can be representatives. Since the Middle Ages, people carried their beloved ones as close to the body as possible, in the form of painted mini portraits or amulets. In the case of Madame Pompadour, this quite incidentally revealed oneself as the king鈥檚 mistress. Miniatures can be models, pulling a distant thing close or making something incomprehensible visible.
The small forces us to take a close look. The miniature is an experimental space and a projecting surface. It creates a sensual tension between recognition and alienation. In his Poetics of Space from 1957, Gaston Bachelard called miniatures 鈥瀐appy spaces鈥� 鈥� soap bubbles in which the world is a handy reflection. But even though we often refer the small to the good and contemplative, the miniature is not a purely utopian space after all. Over the past decades, it was especially the art which has repeatedly been infiltrated by horror. Reduction enables images which cannot be shown on a large scale.
In the exhibition Small, more than forty artists will be showing their perspective on the miniature through forms of reduction, compression or references in different media from painting to video. The artist Jay Gard will design the exhibition architecture.
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Miniature is a matter of perspective. When you look at the small it is not about centimeters but about relations, references, and a special way of seeing.
Miniatures can be representatives. Since the Middle Ages, people carried their beloved ones as close to the body as possible, in the form of painted mini portraits or amulets. In the case of Madame Pompadour, this quite incidentally revealed oneself as the king鈥檚 mistress. Miniatures can be models, pulling a distant thing close or making something incomprehensible visible.
The small forces us to take a close look. The miniature is an experimental space and a projecting surface. It creates a sensual tension between recognition and alienation. In his Poetics of Space from 1957, Gaston Bachelard called miniatures 鈥瀐appy spaces鈥� 鈥� soap bubbles in which the world is a handy reflection. But even though we often refer the small to the good and contemplative, the miniature is not a purely utopian space after all. Over the past decades, it was especially the art which has repeatedly been infiltrated by horror. Reduction enables images which cannot be shown on a large scale.
In the exhibition Small, more than forty artists will be showing their perspective on the miniature through forms of reduction, compression or references in different media from painting to video. The artist Jay Gard will design the exhibition architecture.
Artists on show
- Amélie Grözinger
- Andreas Golder
- Anna Vogel
- Anselm Reyle
- Björn Dahlem
- Bjørn Melhus
- Caroline Kryzecki
- David Nicholson
- Dirk Bell
- Elmar Vestner
- Erik Schmidt
- Felix Kiessling
- Florian Meisenberg
- Fritz Bornstück
- Gregor Hildebrandt
- Iris Touliatou
- Janine Eggert
- Jay Gard
- Jeff Cowen
- John Isaacs
- Jorinde Voigt
- Julius von Bismarck
- Katja Strunz
- Klaus Jörres
- Lindsay Lawson
- Lorenz Estermann
- Mamet Swalle
- Markus Keibel
- Martin Eder
- Michael Sailstorfer
- Michelle Jezierski
- Peter Rösel
- Philip Grözinger
- Philip Topolovac
- Philipp Ricklefs
- Pius Fox
- Pola Sieverding
- Przemek Pyszczek
- Roger Eberhard
- Thomas Zipp
- Tjorg Douglas Beer
- Zuzanna Czebatul
