Galerie Klüser

STEPHAN BALKENHOL  ·  JOSEPH BEUYS  ·  JAMES BROWN  ·  JAN FABRE  ·  GREGOR HILDEBRANDT  ·  VICTOR HUGO  ·  ALEX KATZ  ·  ROBERT LONGO  ·  MIMMO PALADINO  ·  JULIAN ROSEFELDT  ·  VOLKER TANNERT  ·  ERNESTO TATAFIORE 

Galerie Klüser 2

CLAUDIO ABATE  ·  UTE KLOPHAUS  ·  JANNIS KOUNELLIS  ·  OLAF METZEL  ·  LORI NIX  ·  CINDY SHERMAN  ·  BOYD WEBB  ·  WILLIAM WEGMAN 

Following last year’s exhibition ‘Il Mondo Botanico’, Galerie Klüser is now dedicating a comprehensive show to the animal world on occasion of VARIOUS OTHERS 2019: ‘Il Mondo Animale’. In cooperation with the New York gallery Sperone Westwater, Galerie Klüser is presenting an ensemble of most diverse artistic perspectives on the real as well as the mythical fauna.

Galerie Klüser 2 shows photographic animal portrayals, i.a. by William Wegman, who is particularly known for staging his Weimeraner dogs in the style of human portrait photography. Sperone Westwater and Galerie Klüser are now presenting the artist’s works for the first time in Munich. 

Drawn, painted and sculpted art works of the past five decades from the gallery and the Klüser collection can be explored at Galerie Klüser 1 – with the exception of a somewhat older dinosaur egg. Domesticated and wild animals are protagonists of various kinds and appear in figurative and abstract, idealistic and material form. 

An entire room is dedicated to Julian Rosefeldt’s ‘La parola è sempre l’avanguardia dell’azione’ (2018; ‘The word is always the avant-garde of action’), in which the artist translates the political symbolism of the horse derived from art history into the current situation in Italy. Four riderless horses gallop through Rome, on their saddlecloths excerpts of the Italian constitution.   

‘Il Mondo Animale’ opens the view to the artistic involvement with the animal world, the constant actuality of the subject and the diverse manifestations of the animal motif in contemporary art.