Sigmar Polke
‚Alibis: Sigmar Polke‘

Cologne

Alibis: Sigmar Polke is currently on show at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne after having been exhibited at the MoMA in New York and at the Tate Gallery in London. Displaying works from 1963 to 2010, this exhibition is the first retrospective in over fifteen years, and thus the first since the artist’s death in 2010. Alibis features more than 250 items exploring the various media used by Sigmar Polke. Ranging from photographs, to videos, installations, photocopy pieces, sculptures and beyond, the show emphasizes the diversity of the artist’s career.

Based in Cologne for over thirty years, Sigmar Polke’s overview of the city is underlined in numerous videos full of Köln’s references. Further than Cologne, the artist’s works analyze and represent the post-war German History and West Germany as close as it can be, suggesting Polke’s political artistic implication. Works such as seeing ‚Things as They Are‘ and ‚Freundinnen‘ embody the “Polke’s Spirit” by interrogating the view injected by the mass culture and the consumer society.

This artistic panorama displayed in the Museum Ludwig is a testimony of the diversity of forms Polke used during his extensive career without ever taking for granted what he has achieved.

Sigmar Polke, Dr. Berlin, 1969–74, Dispersionsfarbe, Gouache und Sprayfarbe auf Leinwand, 150 x 120 cm

Sigmar Polke, Ohne Titel (Bundesgartenschau et al.]), ca. 1975–80/2009, 16mm-Film transferiert auf Video (Farbe und schwarz-weiß, ohne Ton), 39:46 min,

Museum Ludwig

March 14 – 5 July, 2015

Hein­rich-Böll-Platz
50667 Köln
Germany

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