Elo: Inner Exile ~ Outer Limits on View at MUDAM in Luxembourg

Written by Taylor Witherspoon Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:13

 

LUXEMBOURG - The exhibition Elo (“now” in Luxembourg parlance) presents a snapshot of contemporary production in Luxembourg. Organised by Mudam, it exhibits works mostly produced specially for the exhibition by artists brought together by the independent curator Christian Mosar. On exhibition through 2 February, 2009 at The Musée d‘Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean ( MUDAM).

Underlining the fact that there is no specifically “Luxembourg art”, while showing works that involve different approaches and subjects, Elo aims to focus on the important development of visual arts in Luxembourg over the last decade. This evolution was aided both by the implementation of a dynamic cultural policy, that included the creation of new institutions dedicated to contemporary art, and by the growing number of artists residing in Luxembourg. New talents emerged during this decade and established artists reconsidered and updated their approach.

The particular context of the Grand Duchy, with its limited territorial space and openness to the world, means that its art scene is viewed as a digest of singularities and plays of influences that enlivens today’s artistic field: between interior exile and external limits.

Artists: Götz Arndt, Jean-Marie Biwer, Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, Simone Decker, Stina Fisch, Christian Frantzen, Tina Gillen, Tom Hermes, Paul Kirps, Yvan Klein, Filip Markiewicz, Isabelle Marmann, Bertrand Ney, Moritz Ney, Antoine Prum, Dany Prum, Roland Quetsch, Pasha Rafiy, Saskia Raux & Marc Scozzai, Danielle Scheuer, Eric Schockmel, Jean-Louis Schuller, The Plug, Jeanine Unsen, Roger Wagner, Trixi Weis, Vera Weisgerber, Wennig & Daubach

The Musée d‘Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean ( MUDAM) reflects a political wish: to make Luxembourg, which rose to the forefront as European and financial capital during the 1980s, a cultural capital as well. During the economic boom years, the government of Jacques Santer, now President of the Board of Directors of the Musée d‘Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, provided the impetus for an ambitious cultural infrastructure programme. In the early 1990s, the government decided to entrust the design of the new museum to the Sino-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. Pei’s reputation in the field of museology was such - he had for example built museums in Washington and in Boston, overseen the refurbishment of the Grand Louvre in Paris and the entire Zeughaus site in Berlin - that he was immediately granted the project.   Visit : http://www.mudam.lu/

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