Mirror worlds, light and shadow spheres
2019-05-23
Dear visitors,
discover the nearly two hundred groundbreaking artistic positions that we have put together in the exhibition »Negative Space – Trajectories of Sculpture«.
The spatial sculptures we show here were created in accordance with modern spatial theories in the 20th and 21st century: Spatial lines and contours, spatial constructions and -illusions, open spaces, spaces around, cavities and interspaces, holes, voids and air spaces, fictional spaces, mirror-, light- and shadow spaces.
At the start of your parcours through the landscape of sculpture, you will probably be asking yourself: What does »negative space« actually mean? The term can be understood best if you think of the verb to »clear«: Things are »cleared« away to make space or to create new space. »Clearing« is also tantamount to »emptying«. Space is therefore to be understood as »the void«.
»I don't paint the objects, I paint the spaces between them.«
The classical sculpture is body-centered
It stands in the space, but does not make the space itself a theme. The spatial sculptures you see in this exhibition are non-figurative:
They are perforated, transparent, suspended, hanging, light and free – in some cases even liquid!
You will be amazed at how manifold the »Negative Space« is displayed. Join us on a journey through mirror worlds, through light and shadow spheres! Until 11 August, 2019 you can experience the »Negative Space« at the ZKM.
I would like to draw your attentionto the fog installation on the forecourt: every hour during the opening hours of the exhibition, the ZKM Cube is wrapped in wafts of fog. You walk on and through clouds: CLOUD WALK.
Your Peter Weibel
