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Neue Galerie Graz & HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. Ridiculously Yours!

Arte por Excel… 21-11-2023

The exhibition will take place at two venues: HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark and Neue Galerie Graz.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication.

Further artists at Neue Galerie Graz: Saâdane Afif, Jack Arnold, Dan Attoe, Cosima von Bonin, Ulla von Brandenburg, Robert Breer, Giorgio de Chirico, René Clair, Josef Danhauser, Brice Dellsperger, Josef Dobner, Marcel Duchamp, Lara Favaretto, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Finsler, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Jef Geys, Jacob de Gheyn, Martin Gostner, Nicholas Grafia with Mikołaj Sobczak, George Grosz, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Hannah Höch, Peter Land, Maria Lassnig, Gabriel Lester, Erik van Lieshout, René Magritte, Bjarne Melgaard, Nathaniel Mellors, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Francis Picabia, Katrin Plavčak, Rembrandt van Rijn, Sun Ra, Andreas Schulze, Kurt Schwitters, Sturtevant, Jeffrey Vallance, Jean-Luc Verna, Olav Westphalen, Ming Wong.

The feeling or attitude of enthusiastic embarrassment is undoubtedly associated with a notion of humorous light-heartedness – but just as much with a sense of earnest persistence, against all odds. It is certainly associated with irony – but also with a deeply unironic, rather enthusiastic belief in the necessity and possibility of persevering and continuing with something that has been recognized as unpleasant or embarrassing. One of the most important attitudes or feelings underlying modern and contemporary art is an enthusiastic silliness that does not shy away from the embarrassing, the unreasonably silly. The exhibition, which spans epochs, includes works by around 100 artists from all over the world and spans an arc from earlier centuries of artistic creation to the immediate past.

13.10.2023–25.2.2024