Isa Genzken: difficult to understand art?

Keywords: Understanding Art, Isa Genzkens Rose, the lie of simple solutions, the meaning of art, diversity of sculpture

In the search results that were crushed above, an article was that ISA Genzken said that her art was difficult to understand.

She is certainly right, Isa Genzken has not simply lured (and blocked) with large, colorful (balloon) animals or similarly striking brand art with large, colorful (balloon) animals, but in around 50 years with hardly any absorber energy and even more curiosity an incredibly varied and multi-layered work.

Genzken is one of the most constructive, but also most varied sculptors of the present ; It cannot and does not want to deliver simple solutions, but emphasizes their art of the recipients of their art.

This means that your art is not well suited for simple, quick attempts at interpretation through medial art experts and performance/publication-oriented art scientists; What was drained on Isa-genzken art of unsuccessful attempts to interpretation could fill a thick band art satire.

Genzken has a wealth of stories to tell; Since their thinking remained alive for life, these stories have new content in every exhibition project. Since it consistently tried the "materials of our world" and integrates a wide variety of experiments in the processing of these materials, each of these stories also gets their exclusively tailored layout (which of course is also adapted to the respective environment).

If an artist does not find his easy -to -interpretation in early years, but rather develops his art for life, it is in the interests of art, but not in the interests of people who want to consume art like other products. The limited meaningfulness of most consumer articles does not notice these people at all; If you are asked to search for meaning through a work of art, you are completely overwhelmed.

Isa Genzken is then "unpredictable" how easy to look for the guilt for an artist whose art is evading simple interpretations ... For journalists who have to or want to exercise their job with a minimum.

So it is difficult to understand Genzken-Kunst; But looking away is not the solution for thinking people when it becomes difficult. For non -thinking people, or negative work beyond looking away, which then harms everyone. But there are still masses of people out there who slowly despair and want to despair in our stupid mit-lot-money-after time that ISA remains just as "difficult".

The "rose" of Isa Genzken is a very good example of how simple Isa Genzken's art can appear and how deceptive this simplicity is. For the first time, the rose was placed in Baden in Baden in the park of Villa Schriever (order Frieder Burda, seat of the Frieder Burda Foundation) - a very realistic red rose that was simply simply enlarged into gigantic.

But this rose is Isa Genzken-Manuscript and not to read at first glance. The rose, which ends with 8 meters somewhere at the first floor Villa, can cover the house, as narrow as it is: Show image (click here)

She can merge with the house to the unit of two equivalent partners: Show the picture

It can also withdraw completely into the background, tender and modest how a rose is (and manages to do this in the foreground).

A rose is a rose is a rose? By no means a genzken is a genzken; And that with the rose wasn't even right in the poem from which the saying comes.

Because the "rose" continues and in 1997 stands in front of the new Leipzig exhibition center, bit.ly/2agp8wx; First looks like a place where the rose comes into its own.

And yet the "rose" uses the modern building construction to point out in a bright shine that it is precisely such building construction with its preliminary fields, surroundings, access, parking spaces, recreation areas, toilets and garbage camps that reduce nature to rare specimens of lonely beauty ...

The view of the "rose" from a visitor perspective forms the summit of irony. In fact, the rose stands in a place where it is in the event of visitor times-i.e. during the times when the people are on site, for which this rose stands there as a public work of art-at most poorly-it is only one in all its size very small rose, compared to square kilometers landscape that were destroyed by ugly functional architecture.

Or almost as much as possible; , a replica of the Leipzig Rose was set up as part of the "Façade Sculpture Program" "Rose II" arrives: Show image , it will not be better: Show image , not even with a ship on the facade: Show image .

There are facades in which neither roses nor ships, but only total renovation of the entire environment could tear (the museum itself is great, but the effect of a design depends very much on the details of the various Broken Windows theories). However, this total renovation is canceled and should also be better because the coveted inner city houses have long been a psychopathic social parasites that can of course be hidden behind real estate companies and, of course, renovation measures (whether directly from the citizen or through the detour).

Here are some suggestions from Art Online Magazine Hyperallergic : Show image for the Rose. There are more eternally flowering roses by Isa Genzken, in front of a kind of center in Tokyo z. B., and also at the exhibition 'Isa Genzken. I love Michael Asher, ' is said to have recently spotted in Los Angeles ...

The assumption that the inner city houses on the museum no longer belong to the most socially friendly individuals or companies is obvious, especially after the American society has proven impressive urge to harm the last choice. Unfortunately, why fear and envy lead to self -destructive behavior has not yet been finally researched.

The voluntary descent into the (spiritual) subclass could be related to the fact that the food energy no longer comes to the brain due to too large fat masses or that greed actually eats brain neurologically effectively. Perhaps it is already noticeable that the intelligence has decreased evenly since flame retardant and pesticides and countless other in effects on human body are being blown in insufficiently researched new chemicals in almost all products of mass trading.

For the past 2 decades, this fact can be scientifically proven, see: "Environmental hormones - do we lose the mind?" (Arte Documentation from 2017, director Thierry de Lestrade, Sylvie Gilman, but the effects started long before.

How this urge can be stopped for self -destruction has certainly not been researched; But Isa Genzken certainly can't help it, it fought (overpriced) gallery space a few decades ago in the Cologne Bismarckstraße near the cathedral and would have liked the New York facades with imagination and color to a suitable environment for their rose (and thus also for humans).

But somehow the rose also worked that way, otherwise we could not begin to puzzle 2 decades later, whether it would be due to such exclamation marks in the form of works of art that the first cities (e.g. Berlin) insist on roof and facade greening in suitable new buildings.

We leave their discovery to their discovery which exclamation marks are behind the many other works of art by Isa Genzken, which can also be admired in public space. For the people who have already penetrated into the area of ​​brain training from training in the gym, a long -minded, worthwhile, worthwhile playground is available.

In the article on Isa Genzken's art education, you will find out which comprehensive knowledge of ISA Genzken acquired before creating this playground.