![]() The exhibition project will attempt to locate Art Nouveau in its historical context of ideas as a reform movement with all its manifold facets and extremes. Furthermore the flight away from European industrialization and the march of technology to imagined places of yearning such as the Middle Ages or nature is highlighted.Ī further aspect is the change in the way people experienced their bodies in the fashion of the rational dress reform movement and modern dance. The exhibition has therefore been chosen in order to bring out as clearly as possible in this new setting the roots of the ideas and motives which informed Art Nouveau. The new presentation still revolves, for instance, around the World Exhibition of 1900 as an international platform of modern design. These are just a few of the aspects which emerge as central motives common to both the reform movement of the years around 1900 and for the decisions facing today’s consumers. In contrast to the period about a century ago, when Art Nouveau was le dernier cri, it can be seen today not just as a mere historical stylistic era, but can open up parallels to complex phenomena familiar to visitors from their own experience: scarcity of resources and issues of what materials to use, precarious working conditions and consumer behaviour, the trade-off between ecological and aesthetic considerations in manufacturing processes or the desire for stylishly elegant, prestigious interior furnishings. “The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) would like to dare a quite new approach to the epoch of the Art Nouveau in its exhibition project Art Nouveau. Palisander, mahagony, maple, cherry and walnut, burl birch, partly coloured red, lapis lazuli and mother of peral inlay Schiedmayer Pianofortefabrik, Stuttgart Intarsienwerkstatt G. Salonflügel aus dem Haus Behrens | Salon grand from house Behrens, DarmstadtĮxecution: J. The Great Utopian Vision at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg ![]() ![]() Installation photographs of the exhibition Art Nouveau. The Great Utopian Vision at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg ![]() © bpk, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Elke Walford Le Voyage dans la Lune | Die Reise zum Mond | Voyage to the Moon © Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen Manao Tupapau (Der Geist der Toten wacht) | Manao Tupapau (The Spirit Watches Over Her) Manao Tupapau (The Ghost of the Dead awakens) Sports at the beach in Wyk on the island of Föhr Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Many thankx to the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. One of the most vital periods of creativity in all fields in recent history. Therefore the exhibition project maneuvers at the intersection of utopia and capitalism.” Adopting a particular focus on the relationship between nature and technology, illuminates the most varied disciplines, ranging far beyond the movement of arts and crafts and reaching as far as the history of medicine and the technology of film-making… The ideal of superior craft in contrast to industrial articles collides with the commercial idea of competition and the marketing strategies at that time. The work itself reflects the time from which it emanates – visual, disruptive, psychological, technical, natural, beautiful and sensual – locating “Art Nouveau in its historical context of ideas as a reform movement with all its manifold facets and extremes. the ongoing Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei exhibition). It is so nice to be able to contemplate these objects without the additional and unnecessary “noise” of competing wallpaper behind each object. Particularly interesting are the use of large historical photographs of the objects in use in situ, behind the actual object itself the presence of large three-dimensional structures (such as the Erkerzimmer for the Hotel Gallia in Nice, 1894-1900) built in the gallery and the welcome lack of “wallpaper noise” (as I call it) that has dogged recent exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria (eg. The presentation of the work is excellent, just what one would hope for, and the works themselves are magnificent – objects that you would hope existed, but didn’t know for sure that they did. Mackintosh, Madame D’Ora, Louis Majorelle, Paula Modersohn-Becker, William Morris, Alfons Mucha, Richard Riemerschmid, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Louis C. Exhibition dates: 17th October 2015 – 7th February 2016Īmong the artists exhibited are: Emile Bernard, Edward Burne-Jones, Peter Behrens, Carlo Bugatti, Mariano For-tuny, Loïe Fuller, Emile Gallé, Paul Gauguin, Karl Gräser, Josef Hoffmann, Gustav Klimt, Fernand Khnopff, René Lalique, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Charles R.
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