GROUP EXHIBITION

The exhibition brings together works from different styles and periods, from the Renaissance to the present, Expressionism to Photorealism. In addition to exploring the immediacy of emotional expression and how it can be experienced, it also explores, on a formal level, the techniques artists have used throughout art history to approach the question of creating emotion and expression.

In the blink of an eye refers to the German word ‘Augenblick’, which is of double meaning. This brings another philosophical level to the presentation, which on the one hand refers to the changeof view, but also describes the temporal dimension of a very short moment.In philosophy, Søren Kierkegaard in particular dealt extensively with the concept of the moment. For him, the moment unites the opposition of time and eternity. As an abstract moment, it encompasses eternity and nothingness at the same time and cancels out past, present and future in itself. The moment is thus removed from the ‘empirical course of life’.

There is probably no genre within art other than that of the portrait in which the emotional and sensual experience of this moment, which is in itself intangible, could be better expressed.

With works by: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Nikos Aslanidis, Jonas Burgert, Francesco Clemente,Marcellus Coffermanns, Edgar Degas,Gehard Demetz, Otto Dix, Ferdinand Hodler,Leiko Ikemura, Knut Maron, Milan Mölzer,Shirin Neshat, Emil Nolde, Heribert C.Ottersbach, Max Pechstein, ElizabethPeyton, Pablo Picasso, Daniel Richter,Lawrence Schiller, Beat Streuli, NorbertTadeusz, Manolo Valdés, Felix Vallotton,Joos van Craesbeeck and others