Samstag, 31. Mai 2003

Ein Missverständnis. Die Ausstellung The DaimlerChrysler Collection - 100 Positionen aus über 60 Jahren findet im Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe statt. In der Galerie DaimlerChrysler Contemporary im Haus Huth am Potsdamer Platz sind nur die Auto-Serie Warhols und einige Mercedes-Benz-Bilder von Longo zu sehen. Langweilig, vor allem für passionierte Spaziergänger. The DaimlerChrysler Collection was started in 1977 and has grown continuously since then to its present total of about 1200 works. The collection reflects the 20th century's trend-setting abstract-constructive, conceptual or minimalist views of the image. But the concept behind it also includes a small number of commissioned works. An important step towards making the collection more international was taken in 1986, when Andy Warhol received a commission on the occasion of the company's 100th anniversary, though only 35 pictures and 12 drawings of the approximately 80 pictures planned for the "Cars" series were realized before Warhol died in 1987. A second commission went to the New York artist Robert Longo (a sequence of 5 black-and-white portraits of Mercedes-Benz models). 7:30:09 PM    comment []