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  • NEW WORLDS – Ville Grise

  • Artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva composes her painting ›Ville Grise‹ as if it were a mosaic. She transposes the ›grey city‹ that provides the title of the piece into an abstract space where what we experience is perhaps a rainy winter’s day, the last snow in February, or even stones laid without any greenery? In terms of associations, the piece is accompanied in the hall by scenes of what is at times miserable everyday urban life. It is thus joined Adolf Menzel’s portrait of a bearded man whose face is scarred by many years of hard work, Carl Hofer’s painting of two seated women whose corporeal texture melds with the draperies in the background, or Heinrich Kley’s male figure who stands forlorn in front of the gigantic ›Friedrich Alfred Hütte Blast Furnaces‹, surrounded by smoke and metal. Bound up with all this is the question of the extent to which what surrounds us, what we perceive, then permeates us – be it in art or in reality.
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Works
Arbeiter
Das C-Rohr Gottes
Komposition Nr. 56
Raumknoten 54
Zwei Frauen
Hochöfen der Friedrich Alfred Hütte
M 69
  • Knifer, Julije

  • M 69, 1966/69

Treppenflur bei Nachtbeleuchtung
Studienkopf eines bärtigen Arbeiters mit Schirmmütze
Rhythmen in Grau und Weiß
Quai de Seine au sable rouge
Ville grise