Exhibition Art And Alchemy

The Pierce of Transformation

5.4.2014 - 10.8.2014

For the main time in Germany, an circus straddling all epochs and genres mood be introducing the spine-tingling join in the midst of art and alchemy in afterward and present time. 250 Works from antiquity to the present, sequence Baroque art, Surrealism, nonstop to modern art from collections and museums in the USA, Swell up Britain, France, Mexico and Israel reveal the plead which alchemy exerted for load full artists. Artists featured in the circus, such as JOSEPH BEUYS, JAN BRUEGHEL THE Enhanced, LUCAS CRANACH THE Enhanced,MAX ERNST, HENDRICK GOLTZIUS, REBECCA HORN, ANISH KAPOOR, YVES KLEIN, SIGMAR POLKE, REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, PETER PAUL RUBENS andDAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER summon ballet company to make inquiries the mystery of alteration.

Alchemy was invariably practised in secret, but was by no scheme a pink task until well happening the 18th century: Distinguished personalities, as well as Paracelsus, Isaac Newton and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, were alchemists, too. It was not until the Age of the Rationalization that alchemy was ousted and became intermingled with occultism, sorcery and superstition. In linkage with 19th and inappropriate 20th-century analysis alchemy was brought to new life.

The circus was conceived by Museum Kunstpalast in deal with the investigate group "Art and Capability in Pre-Modern Europe" at the Max Planck Culture for the Recording of Science in Berlin, as well as a group of experts at the Chemical Heritage Substantiation in Philadelphia, which furthermore provided load pieces on afford. A "Wunderkammer" of peculiar and irrelevant reserves from shrubbery and fauna is unfilled for ballet company to make inquiries. In an whole accompanying programme the strictness of art and alchemy mood be lingering upon by scheme of lectures, symposium and guided tours. For the circus, a domicile for children was set up, where the vicinity of "The Alchemy of Colour" is explored by taking a precise gaze at at colours, listed with their exemplary elements and labor.

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