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Matthew Day Jackson / Ernst Schurtenberger
dal 20/10/2011 al 11/2/2012
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20/10/2011

Matthew Day Jackson / Ernst Schurtenberger

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

The exhibition 'Esch 1931 - 2006' shows the work of a great unknown figure in the Swiss art of the 20th century: Ernst Schurtenberger. For 'In Search of...' rainbow colors transform the museum's normally neutral flight of rooms in the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center (KKL) built by Jean Nouvel. The exhibition centers on Matthew Day Jackson's video film 'In Search of...' that is screening in a living room designed by the international furniture chain IKEA.


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Matthew Day Jackson

In Search of...

21.10.2012 - 15.01.2012

Curated by Peter Fischer

The Museum of Art Lucerne is organizing Matthew Day Jackson's first European solo exhibition in collaboration with the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Bologna and the Gemeentemuseum in Den Haag. Jackson (American, born 1974) recently celebrated major successes with his exhibitions in the USA and London, which resulted in his work being represented in major public and private collections world-wide.

Jackson is interested in human existence and he distinguished himself with profound research on anthropology and the history of Western civilization. Highly complex and deeply ambivalent areas of knowledge especially attract his attention, such as nuclear technology and space travel. Correspondingly, his work traces the fine line that divides myth and reality, progress and destruction, technology and religion. In an insightful and virtuoso manner, Jackson employs the mechanisms of the manifold media landscape shaping our current society. But throughout everything, his work is grounded in the artist's person and existence.

The artist developed the exhibition in close collaboration with the Fine Art Museum Lucerne. Rainbow colors transform the museum's normally neutral flight of rooms in the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center (KKL) built by Jean Nouvel. The exhibition centers on his video film 'In Search of...' that is screening in a living room designed by the international furniture chain IKEA. 'In Search of...' is Jackson's main work-in-progress: An amusing paraphrase of the famous American TV-documentary series moderated by Leonard Nimoy aka Dr. Spock, it also presents all the artist's central themes. Jackson declares it his intention to "understand the society and culture in which I live." Reason and intuition combined with pleasure and humor saturate his approach in equal degrees and make the encounter with his work both challenging and entertaining.

Project Funding: IKEA AG, APG Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft, MVM AG Luzern and Emmen

Supported by Hauser & Wirth, Zurich/London/New York und Jorg Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam

MAMbo Bologna is publishing an accompanying exhibition catalogue in English.

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Ernst Schurtenberger

Esch 1931 - 2006

21.10.2011 - 12.02-2012

Curated by Heinz Widauer

Five years after the death of the painter and draughtsman, born in Lucerne in 1931, he is being given a retrospective. The observation that art arises out of internal necessity seldom applies more aptly than it does to Schurtenberger’s expressive painting. Having lived in seclusion in Reinsbach in Austria from 1983 onwards, his art increasingly became a counter-world for him. The exhibition shows the work of a great unknown figure in the Swiss art of the 20th century.

Image: Matthew Day Jackson: Chariot II (I love America and America loves me), 2008/2010
Installation shot Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna
Photo: Matteo Monti
© 2011, the artist

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Opening: 21 October 2011 - 18:30

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