| Stage of Life - Rhetorics of Emotion |
| 8 April – 9 July 2006, Lenbachhaus
Munich |
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| The exhibition, Stage of Life – Rhetorics
of Emotion was not a reaction to a current state of everyday political
and social events. Rather, it attempted to capture the incomprehensibility
and the ineffability of works of art in its moment. The subjective experience
of love and isolation, of mourning, melancholy, and happiness, of age
and youth, longing and fulfilment, illusion, confusion, and despair are
the material that the exhibited works are made of. They do not just concern
themselves with the possibilities of representing whatever is vague or
cannot be evaluated, but also with the question of if and how the recipient
can be brought to experience these qualities. For the curators, this exhibition
was an attempt to find a formulation for what the word emotion in its
broadest sense can encompass, and for an opportunity to reach the recipient
directly through the works of art. |
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| Artists: |
| Fikret Atay, Michael Beutler, Gerard Byrne,
Gardar Eide Einarsson, Olafur Eliasson, Cerith Wyn Evans, Matias Faldbakken,
Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Jesper Just, Romuald
Karmakar, Sarah Morris, Mark Raidpere, Benny Nemerowsky Ramsay, Jeroen
de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Michael Sailstorfer, Markus Schinwald and
Gavin Turk. |
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| Publication: |
| Stage of Life – Rhetorics of Emotion:
An Investigation in Seven Chapters, with an essay by Juliane Rebentisch
was published on the occasion of the exhibition by Stadtische Galerie
im Lenbachhaus München, Künstler, Autoren und Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther Köing, Köln in 2006. |
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