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Sunset: A Celebration of the Sinking Sun
People love sunsets. When the sun sets and melts into a beautiful display of colours in the evening sky, the experience is mesmerizing and deeply moving for nearly everyone. It is an event that repeats every day but is nevertheless perceived as a final act. There is a reason why millions of images of sunsets can be found online.
From the perspective of the fine arts, this excessively popular motif has lost its allure: It is seen as tacky and twee. To restore its reputation, the Kunsthalle Bremen is traversing the history of art with its exhibition 鈥淪unset鈥�. Significant loans and works from its own collection take viewers from the Romantic era to the twenty-first century. The works capture the emotional power of a single moment in time that functions as a metaphor for life and its finite nature, its breath-taking beauty, its dreams and upheavals and its apocalyptic visions. In addition, numerous contemporary works reflect on the questions we are faced with when looking at this heavenly spectacle today. They examine the crossover between art and kitsch, address the physics of the phenomenon between the afterglow and conduct the twilight hour and atmospheric research in a figurative and a concrete environmental sense.
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People love sunsets. When the sun sets and melts into a beautiful display of colours in the evening sky, the experience is mesmerizing and deeply moving for nearly everyone. It is an event that repeats every day but is nevertheless perceived as a final act. There is a reason why millions of images of sunsets can be found online.
From the perspective of the fine arts, this excessively popular motif has lost its allure: It is seen as tacky and twee. To restore its reputation, the Kunsthalle Bremen is traversing the history of art with its exhibition 鈥淪unset鈥�. Significant loans and works from its own collection take viewers from the Romantic era to the twenty-first century. The works capture the emotional power of a single moment in time that functions as a metaphor for life and its finite nature, its breath-taking beauty, its dreams and upheavals and its apocalyptic visions. In addition, numerous contemporary works reflect on the questions we are faced with when looking at this heavenly spectacle today. They examine the crossover between art and kitsch, address the physics of the phenomenon between the afterglow and conduct the twilight hour and atmospheric research in a figurative and a concrete environmental sense.
Artists on show
- Alex Cecchetti
- Andy Warhol
- Anna Kirstine Ancher
- Anthonie van Borssom
- Antoine Chintreuil
- August Kopisch
- Carl Gustav Carus
- Carl Rottmann
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Charles Laval
- Christian Haake
- Christian Morgenstern
- Claude Lorrain
- Claude Monet
- Claus Böhmler
- Daniel Hausig
- David Weiss
- Dieter Roth
- Dudley Hardy
- Ed Ruscha
- Emil Nolde
- Ernst Barlach
- Felix Bracquemond
- Félix Vallotton
- Fiete Stolte
- Franz Wilhelm Schiertz
- Friedrich Kunath
- Georges Lacombe
- Gerhard Richter
- Günther Uecker
- Gustave-Marie Greux
- Heike Kati Barath
- Heinrich Jakob Fried
- Heinz Baden
- Hendrick Goltzius
- Henri Meunier
- Holger Henrick Drachmann
- Jacques Callot
- Jacques Callot
- Jan Schmidt
- Jens Lausen
- Johan Barthold Jongkind
- Johan Christian Klausson Dahl
- Johann Christian Adolf Friedrich
- Johanna Jaeger
- Jonathan Monk
- Jörg Sasse
- Josef Scharl
- Josef Weisz
- Julius Köhnholz
- Klaus Staeck
- Konrad Schulz
- Le Corbusier
- Ludolf Backhuysen I
- Lyonel Feininger
- Marikke Heinz-Hoek
- Marina Schulze
- Matthieu von Plattenberg
- Max Ernst
- Norbert Schwontkowski
- Olrik Kohlhoff
- Otto Dix
- Paul Signac
- Peter Fischli
- Philippe Otto Runge
- Richard Hamilton
- Susan Schuppli
- Tacita Dean
- Takahashi Sh艒tei
- Thomas Rentmeister
- Thomas Weinberger
- Thorsten Brinkmann
- Ulrike Königshofer
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Viktoria Binschtok
- William Turner
- Wolfgang Hainke
- Wolfgang Mattheuer
- Wolfgang Tillmans
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It occurs every day. And despite this, we find ourselves again and again under the spell of the setting sun. It is impossible to imagine art without this motif.
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