„This exhi­bi­tion intro­duces the ZERO move­ment and its works, which have not been widely presented in Japan yet, toge­ther with Kusa­ma’s works and docu­men­ta­tion from the 1960s. When she was based in New York in the 1960s, Kusama parti­ci­pated in group ZERO-related exhi­bi­tions many times, attrac­ting atten­tion within the Euro­pean art scene. Yayoi Kusama, who pursues “Infi­nity”, has various simi­la­ri­ties in her artistic expres­sion with that of ZERO artists, such as the repe­ti­tion of motifs and the pursuit of mono­chrome. It will trace the journey of avant-garde artists who over­came the wounds of war, initia­ting the possi­bi­lity of a brand-new art through explo­ring two oppo­site poles, Zero and Infi­nity.“

Enrico Castel­lani, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Chris­tian Megert, Jesús Rafael Soto, Henk Peeters, Otto Piene, Jan Schoon­hoven, Ferdi­nand Spindel, Günther Uecker

Special Support: Goethe-Institut Tokyo, ZERO foun­da­tion

Photo: Adolf Luther, Concave Mirror Object, 1966-67
copy­right: Andreas Drabben

“For the first time, the exhibition relates Op Art to works of art from the 16th to 18th centuries in which comparable methods of sensory manipulation come into play. Op Art’s rejection of harmony and balance in favor of irritation, violent effects and deception corresponds to a shift from the classical to the anticlassical – for which Mannerism stands as an epoch-spanning term. Accordingly, “Vertigo” understands Op Art as a mannerism of concrete art of the 20th century.”

The “Vertigo” exhibition was previously on display at mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien from May to October 2019.

Curators of the exhibition:
Eva Badura-Triska (mumok)
Eva-Marina Froitzheim (Kunstmuseum Stuttgart)
Markus Wörgötter (freelance curator)

In cooperation with the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

Image: Exhibition view
Vertigo. Op Art und eine Geschichte des Schwindels 1520-1970/ Op Art and a History of Deception 1520-1970, mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 25.5.-26.10.2019, Adolf Luther, Laser Room, 1970
Photo: Markus Wörgötter
© mumok/Adolf Luther Foundation, Krefeld/Bildrecht Vienna, 2019

The exhibition ZERO 제로 will take place at the Pohang Museum of Steel Art (POMA) from September 2019 to January 2020 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Pohang Museum of Steel Art and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the city of Pohang.
The majority of the works come from the ZERO foundation’s collection, including the early, important work Light Structure (1961) by Adolf Luther.

The collaborative project ZERO 제로 will be organized by the ZERO foundation Düsseldorf and the Pohang Museum of Steel Art in South Korea from 4 September 2019.

The exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of the millennia-old cultural history of mirrors. Whether in ancient Egypt, among the Maya in Mexico, in Japan, in Venice or in today’s art and feature films – civilizations around the globe have produced mirrors and attributed different meanings and powers to them.

With 220 works of art from 95 museums and collections worldwide, the exhibition sheds light on the changing technical and technological development as well as the cultural and social significance of this reflective medium. It is about mirrors as artifacts but also about self-knowledge, vanity and wisdom, beauty, mysticism and magic and, last but not least, about the mirror medium of our time – the selfie.

Paul Delvaux, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Adolf Luther, Gerhard Richter, and others.

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Photo: photomontage Water Lenses Adolf Luther, Courtesy Photo: Museum Riet­berg

“Among the pioneering art movements of the 1960s, Op Art and Kinetic Art have received the least attention to date. They were often downgraded as too spectacular and therefore superficial. Wrongly so, because Op Art and Kinetic Art sharpen our awareness of the ambivalence of reality. They literally demonstrate that perception is not objective, but dependent on parameters such as context and viewer – with all the epistemological consequences.”

Josef Albers, Marcel Duchamp, Matthias Grünewald, Adolf Luther, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely, and others.

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Adolf Luther is represented in this exhibition with the installation Laser-Raum 1970, as well as with a large-format Curved Mirror Object.

Photo: Marina Apollonio Spazio Ad Attivazione Cinetica 6B, 1966-2015 Courtesy Photo: Lauren Glazer © Marina Apolloni

The exhibition “Negative Space” aims to change the view on modern and contemporary sculpture and wants to tell a different story. The objective of the exhibition is to think about the relationship between sculpture and space from a decidedly spatial perspective. All exhibits focus on the sculptural phenomenon in relation to diverse concepts of space: Open spaces, surrounding, hollow and intermediate spaces, mirror, light and shadow spaces, virtual data spaces, etc. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the art of sculpture, which, contrary to traditional definitions, is committed to contour, emptiness and levitation: light instead of heavy, not full but empty, open instead of closed, diaphanous instead of dense, airy and light.

Robert Adams, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Olafur Eliasson, Adolf Luther, Jakob Mattner, Antoin Pevsner, Fred Sandback, Andy Warhol, and others.

Further infomation

How can it be that we in the West — in an era in which our standard of living is higher than ever — are still constantly wanting more? Our Smartphones keep us in contact with the world twenty-four hours a day. The result is constant overstimulating. We are always „on“, and we don’t quite know how to manage it. The gratification is fleeting, while the emptiness endures.

Daniel Buren, Jan Henderikse, Ernesto Neto, Adolf Luther, Alicja Kwade, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, u.a.

Photo: Museum Voorlinden photographed by Pietro Savorelli

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Auteurs : Magdalena Broska, Susannah Cremer-Bermbach, Klaus Honnef
Ouvrage relié, format 23 x 29,7 cm,
200 pages, textes en allemand et français, 54 illustrations en couleur et en noir et blanc.

Prix de vente : 30,00 €

Éditeur : Fondation Adolf Luther, Krefeld at Pagina Verlag GmbH Goch
ISBN 978-3-9803321-2-5

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