Fresh Widow

Düsseldorf

For centuries, the window has been found among the most favored artistic motifs. The picture of a „room with a view“ in which the window marks the threshold between exterior and interior has long fostered reflections on the medium of painting itself. The observation that a painting resembles a view through an open window dates all the way back to 1435, when it entered a treatise on painting written by the Renaissance scholar Leon Battista Alberti. He coined a metaphor which has for centuries shaped our understanding of the picture which is organized according to the rules of central perspective and which – like a window – reveals to us a delimited segment of the world.

100 paintings, drawings, objects, sculptures, photographs, and projections featured in the exhibition Fresh Widow. The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp exemplify the astonishing variety and diversity of the pictorial models proposed between 1912 and the present. The presentation strikingly documents the use to which these artists put their new-won freedom.

Featured artists include icons such as Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte as well as Ellsworth Kelly, Eva Hesse, Robert Motherwell, Gerhard Richter, Christo, Isa Genzken, Brice Marden, Günther Förg, Toba Khedoori, Jeff Wall, Sabine Hornig, Olafur Eliasson and Jochem Hendricks.

Kunstsammlung NRW

March 31st – August 12th, 2012
Grabbeplatz 5
40213 Düsseldorf
Germany

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