The politics of contemporary art biennials: spectacles of critique, theory and art
The politics of contemporary art biennials: spectacles of critique, theory and art
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当代艺术双年展的政治:批评、理论和艺术的奇观
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10.1080/14702029.2017.1366698
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2018
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B. Roberts
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assemblage showcases covers, columns and illustrations from Flechtheim’s house organ Der Querschnitt, a less-political, more pop-culture leaning Berlin counterpoint to Herwarth Walden’s Der Sturm. The museum’s archival impulse extends through a particularly unusual and compelling ode to Renée Sintenis, incorporating tiny, Passbild-sized vernacular photos of the artist and her wire-haired fox terrier, which make a lovely complement, and invites similar close inspection of Sintenis’s palm-sized bronzes of foals and dogs. The mix of tension and influence is perhaps expressed best again by Belling in his 1929 naturalistic study of Max Schmeling, the heavyweight boxing champion of the world – who was also friends with Flechtheim. Sports as an acceptable theme had, since the beginning of the 1900s, already crept into modernist paintings by Max Liebermann and Robert Delaunay. As opposed to Arno Breker, Belling’s interest in the physiques of athletes was simply an acknowledgment of a more mediated modern world. There is not a designated official catalogue for the exhibition, but there is an excellent companion volume of essays, Sprung in den Raum: Skulpturen bei Alfred Flechtheim (in German) which includes substantial chapters about the featured artists, including chapters by Helen Shiner, the Oxford-based art historian compiling the Moissey Kogan catalogue raisonné, and Arie Hartog, director of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen. Curated by Dr Julia Wallner, Kolbe Museum director.