Bøger af Marcus Andrew Hurttig

Anfang der 1990er Jahre entwickelte Martin Kippenberger die Idee eines weltumspannenden U-Bahn-Netzes: METRO-Net. Es gehört zu den faszinierendsten Projekten des Künstlers, konnte allerdings durch dessen frühen Tod 1997 nur in Ansätzen verwirklicht werden. 1993 wurde ein U-Bahn-Eingang auf der griechischen Insel Syros erbaut, es folgten zwei weitere: 1995 in Dawson City in Kanada, 1997 auf dem neuen Leipziger Messegelände. So entstand ein Transportmittel für Reisen im unbegrenzten Raum der Imagination. Seine Nutzbarkeit hängt an der Fantasie: Ohne Bereitschaft, sich Tunnelröhren und fahrende U-Bahnen vorzustellen, bleibt dieses Projekt ein "unsinniges Bau- vorhaben". Sobald man es aber als Transportmittel für "Kopfreisende" akzeptiert, kann das Kunstwerk seine Wirkmacht vollständig entfalten. Mit METRO-Net wollte Kippenberger den vorhersehbaren, vernunftorientierten Rahmenbedingungen des Lebens ein romantisches Weltgefühl entgegensetzen. Marcus Andrew Hurttig ist seit 2017 Kurator für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Stefan Weppelmann ist seit 2021 Direktor des Museums der bildenden Künste Leipzig.--In the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO-Net. Although it is one of the artist's most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only be implemented in rudimentary form. In 1993, a metro entrance was built on the Greek island of Syros, followed by two more: one in 1995 in Dawson City in Canada and the other in 1997 on the new Leipzig exhibition grounds. This created a means of travelling in the boundless space of the imagination. Its usability depends on the imagination: without the willingness to visualize tunnel tubes and moving underground trains, this project remains a "nonsensical building plan." But the moment we accept the artwork as a mode of transport for "mind travellers," then its full power can unfold. Kippenberger's METRO-Net was intended to counter life's predictable, rationally oriented parameters with a romantic sense of the world. Marcus Andrew Hurttig has been curator for modern and contemporary art at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig since 2017. Stefan Weppelmann has been director of the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig since 2021.

The Hamburg bankers son Aby Warburg (18661929) was one of the most influential art historians and cultural theorists of the 20th century. His lifes work was devoted to tracing antique formulas of representation in the depiction of human passions in Renaissance art. For this epoch-spanning relationship, he developed the term pathos formula (Pathosformel). In a lecture given in 1905 in the Konzerthaus in Hamburg, focusing on the young Albrecht Drers Death of Orpheus, Warburg outlined his thoughts in front of the original drawing, which he had borrowed from the rich holdings of the Kunsthalle in order to better illustrate his idea. This drawing, pivotal in the young artists development as an ambitious response to classical antiquity, was displayed during the lecture alongside a group of engravings and woodcuts which included not only some of Drers own seminal later prints, such as Melencolia I, but also engravings by Andrea Mantegna which Drer copied in 1494, the same year he drew the Death of Orpheus.Warburgs pop-up exhibition of eleven works has here been reconstructed and analyzed, using his fascinating lecture notes, sketches and slide lists. First developed by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2011, subsequently on view in Cologne in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and now at The Courtauld Gallery, each institution has interpreted the material slightly differently, while retaining the core Warburg group.Aby Warburg aimed at unlocking the meaning of an art work by excavating its roots in its cultural context. By restaging his legendary display of 1905 with Drers Death of Orpheus at its heart, the exhibition and accompanying book present some of the most skillful and ambitious works on paper ever produced and also seek to introduce into Warburgs rich intellectual universe to a