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| Article number | 16921 |
| Price | 36,00 € |
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NÖFER
Memories of Landscapes - Werner Nöfer's Works in Public Space
Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue
PERISCOPIC!
Werner Nöfer's graphics between pop and agitation
26 May 2023 until 24 Sep 2023
Who doesn't know it, the large mural on the front of the building of the legendary Grünspan music club in Hamburg St. Pauli in Große Freiheit from 1968. Designed by Werner Nöfer (*1937 Essen) and Dieter Glasmacher (*1940 Krefeld), it is not only one of the first wall paintings in Europe, but meanwhile a listed landmark of the Hamburg music and club scene. On the occasion of the 10th Hamburg Architecture Summer (May to July 2023), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is now exhibiting Werner Nöfer's graphic works, which often served as models for the works in public space. This is also the case with the screen print periscopic, which can be found almost identically on the Grünspan.
In the unmistakable design of the late 1960s, in a mixture of Pop Art, landscape motifs and graphic precision, Nöfer's works fascinate with their clear colourfulness and formal language. Influenced by artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, who is considered the "father" of Pop Art, his works are at the same time often a humorous response to the "violence of the technological and mechanical environment" (Nöfer) of his time. As a "picture within a picture", one recognises the landscape or the crystal-clear horizon in silkscreen motifs such as Blind Flight or Monitor as markers of a world dominated by technical apparatus.
Since the 1960s, Werner Nöfer's works have been shown in numerous exhibitions and he has created works in public spaces such as the guidance system for Berlin's Tegel Airport or the murals for the Abaton cinema (1970). Like a "storyboard" with individual film scenes, they mark the entrance and box office area of the art house cinema in the Grindelviertel.
On display are around 40 graphics, most of which the Kunsthalle received as a gift from the artist in 2017 and are now on show for the first time. Together with films, sketchbooks, book covers and designs for works in public space, the exhibition provides a detailed insight into the artist's oeuvre in the context of the graphic scene in Hamburg around 1970, which needs to be rediscovered.
Memories of Landscapes - Werner Nöfer's Works in Public Space
Special exhibition | Exhibition catalogue
PERISCOPIC!
Werner Nöfer's graphics between pop and agitation
26 May 2023 until 24 Sep 2023
Who doesn't know it, the large mural on the front of the building of the legendary Grünspan music club in Hamburg St. Pauli in Große Freiheit from 1968. Designed by Werner Nöfer (*1937 Essen) and Dieter Glasmacher (*1940 Krefeld), it is not only one of the first wall paintings in Europe, but meanwhile a listed landmark of the Hamburg music and club scene. On the occasion of the 10th Hamburg Architecture Summer (May to July 2023), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is now exhibiting Werner Nöfer's graphic works, which often served as models for the works in public space. This is also the case with the screen print periscopic, which can be found almost identically on the Grünspan.
In the unmistakable design of the late 1960s, in a mixture of Pop Art, landscape motifs and graphic precision, Nöfer's works fascinate with their clear colourfulness and formal language. Influenced by artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, who is considered the "father" of Pop Art, his works are at the same time often a humorous response to the "violence of the technological and mechanical environment" (Nöfer) of his time. As a "picture within a picture", one recognises the landscape or the crystal-clear horizon in silkscreen motifs such as Blind Flight or Monitor as markers of a world dominated by technical apparatus.
Since the 1960s, Werner Nöfer's works have been shown in numerous exhibitions and he has created works in public spaces such as the guidance system for Berlin's Tegel Airport or the murals for the Abaton cinema (1970). Like a "storyboard" with individual film scenes, they mark the entrance and box office area of the art house cinema in the Grindelviertel.
On display are around 40 graphics, most of which the Kunsthalle received as a gift from the artist in 2017 and are now on show for the first time. Together with films, sketchbooks, book covers and designs for works in public space, the exhibition provides a detailed insight into the artist's oeuvre in the context of the graphic scene in Hamburg around 1970, which needs to be rediscovered.