The Dark Side of the Moon
The Abysmal in Art from Albrecht Dürer to Martin Disler
July 9th - October 23nd 2015, Kunstmuseum
“See you on the dark side of the moon …” is a lyric from the legendary concept album by the British rock band Pink Floyd, which has remained a best-seller since its appearance in 1973. Thematically, the work revolves around the abysses of being human, around the anonymous power structures to which individuals in today’s society are subjected. Beyond the social circumstances in the sense of Mark Twain’s quotation “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody,” the dark side of the moon also points to existential dark sides.
Both form the crux of this thematic exhibition centered around a unique series of sculptures and large-scale installations by the legendary Swiss artist Martin Disler (1949–1996). These are surrounded by groups of impressive and uncanny works by Damien Deroubaix, Jutta Koether, Mona Hatoum, and Josef Felix Müller, among others. The contemporary pieces are augmented with works by old masters: the important Apocalypse series of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) and Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot (1592–1635), which reveal an impressive panorama of social rejection and human abysses in dialogue with contemporary works across centuries.
Curators: Konrad Bitterli and Matthias Wohlgemuth
artists
*1970 in Leerdam, Netherlands
lives and works in Berlin
*1976 in St.Gallen
lives and works in St.Gallen
*1949 in Basel
lives and works in Basel und Maloja
* 1592 in Nancy, † 1635 in Nancy
*1972 in Lille, France
lives and works in Berlin
* 1949 in Seewen; † 1996 in Geneva
* 1953 in Capetown, Southafrica
lives and works in Amsterdam
* 1471 in Nürnberg; † 1528 in Nürnberg
founded 2003
the group lives and works in Leipzig
* 1952 in Beirut, Libanon
lives and works in London und Berlin
* 1958 in Cologne
lives and works in New York and Berlin
* 1978 in Zug
lives and works in Zurich
* 1963 in Sacramento, USA
lives and works in New York and in the Mojave Desert, California
* 1955 in Eggersriet, SG
lives and works in St.Gallen
* 1958 in New York City, NY, USA; † 2005, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, USA
* 1957 in Tucson, Arizona, US
lives and works in Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles, US
* 1965 in Den Haag, Netherlands
lives and works in Zurich
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