Art Of The Day Weekly
#481 - from 13 July 2017 to 13 September 2017
Agnieszka Polska, I am the Mouth, 2014, HD-video 5:45 min, Still, © The Artist, courtesy ŻAK | BRANICKA.
What is peace?
FRANCFORT – War and peace go hand in hand, as Tolstoy showed in his famous novel. It is easy to dedicate an exhibition or a book to war as it is always full of crashes and clatter, of events, attacks, and heroic exploits. But what can be done to show peace? How can one define that state, or rather the process? To deal with this permanently current subject, with this ideal that is systematically undermined, the Schirn Museum has chosen to give the floor to contemporary artists, in very different registers, from Ulay (born in 1943), the former companion of Marina Abramovic, to video artist Agnieszka Polska (born in 1985) without forgetting Michel Houellebecq (born in 1958).
• Peace at the Schirn Francfort, from 30 June to 24 September 2017.