nolde/kritik/kuball

2020

For the exhibition Emil Nolde - A Critical Approach by Mischa Kuball at the Draiflessen Collection Mettingen Mischa Kuball developed works of art that encompass a multi-layered, open, critical, and simultaneously aesthetic illumination of one of the most ambivalent German artists of the last century. His artistic approach and a series of earlier works make Kuball particularly predestined for the task of grappling with Nolde’s work and identity. Using the medium of light and photographic techniques such as film and photography, Kuball negotiates socio-political issues and questions of perception by making connections and structures visible and focusing our attention in new directions. The video installations and pictorial series created expressly for this exhibition project thus provide an unusual perspective on Emil Nolde’s oeuvre because they do not display or reproduce any of his works directly, but instead open up spaces of association whose field of reference extends beyond the specific example of Nolde.

The Nolde Foundation Seebüll granted Mischa Kuball free access to its facilities, allowing him to develop new artistic works for this exhibition on site. Kuball focuses on three aspects of Nolde's life and work: his treatment of foreign cultures, his dedication to the National Socialists, and his carefully crafted stylization as a resistance artist after 1945. Kuball's video installations and picture series provide an unusual perspective on Emil Nolde's oeuvre, thus encourages the viewer to abstractly illuminate the processes behind the works, and to consciously recognize and critically scrutinize them.

Works

Emil Nolde

  • Zwei Frauen mit Kind (Two Women with a Child), 1930s–1950s
  • Gruppe mit Kindern (Group with Children), 1930s–1950s
  • Buckeliger Alter (Old Hunchback), 1930s–1950s
  • Zwei alte Männer (Two Old Men), 1930s–1950s
  • In der Garderobe (In the Dressing Room), 1930s–1950s
  • Groteskes Paar (sich umarmend)(Grotesque Couple [Embracing]), 1930s–1950s
  • Zwei groteske alte Männer und Fledermaus (“Nächtliche Gestalten”) (Two Grotesque Old Men and a Bat [“Nocturnal Figures”]), 1930s–1950s
  • Spanierin (Spanish Woman), 1930s–1950s
  • Zwei Damen (Two Ladies), 1930s–1950s
  • Zwei Frauen vor blauem Himmel (Two Women against a Blue Sky), 1930s–1950s
  • Zwei Menschen(Two People), 1930s–1950s
  • Im Theater (At the Theater), 1930s–1950s
  • Das junge Mädchen (The Young Girl), 1930s–1950s
  • Seltsame Dame (Strange Woman), 1930s–1950s
  • Drei Frauen (Wartende junge Frau)(Three women [Waiting Young Woman]), 1930s-1950s
  • Frau und zwei Männer – “Anklage” (Woman and Two Men – “Accusation”), 1930s–1950s
  • “Vergebung” (“Forgiveness”), 1930s–1950s
  • Meer mit gelber Sonne (Sea with Yellow Sun), 1930s–1950s
  • Hochgebirge (High Mountains), 1930s–1950s
  • Grablegung (Burial), 1915
  • Herbstwolken, Friesland (Autumn Clouds, Frisia), 1929
  • Blumen und Wolken (Flowers and Clouds), 1938
  • Familie (Family), 1931
  • Der Herrscher (The Ruler), 1914
  • Anbetung (Adoration), 1922
  • Crouching figure (movable arms), nineteenth century
  • Japanese woman in a blue kimono, n.d.
  • Guardian figure, 1200−1450 CE?
  • Lion-Dog, Meiji Era (1868–1912)
  • Figure of the immortal Liu Hai with double gourd in his raised hand, n.d.

Mischa Kuball

  • making of Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • ethnographica_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • ethnographica_lumetri_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • unpainted_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • ct_scan_video_ethnographica_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • ct_scan_ethnographica_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • storage_room_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • lumetri_scope_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball I−VI, 2020
  • scan_room_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • research_desk_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020
  • public_sculpture_Nolde/Kritik/Kuball, 2020

Aby Warburg

  • Bilderatlas Mnemosyne (1, 3, 5, 6, 23A, 31, 32, 36, 37, 39, 45, 47, 55, 65, 72, 77, 78, 79), 1924-1929
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