Riotous Baroque

Zurich

Riotous Baroque confronts pictures from the seventeenth century with art of the present day. The exhibition focuses on the ‘riotous’ aspect and the proximity to life that is a recurring theme in the literature on the Baroque. It sets out to extricate the concept of the Baroque from its conventional context within the history of style and to distance itself from formal clichés. Riotous Baroque is not about pomp, ornament and gold, but rather ‘manifestations of precarious vitality’ – a vitality that is lived, rediscovered or lost, projected and threatened by death. The intention is not to proclaim a neo-Baroque stylistic tendency in contemporary art. In an age of stylistic scepticism, art today is seeking to gain traction with reality and touch upon existential issues.

Kunsthaus Zürich

June 1st – September 2nd, 2012
Heimplatz 1
8001 Zurich
Switzerland

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