SATURDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2024, 6:00 PM
opening home match 2024
The selected artistic positions at the Kunsthaus Glarus thematically touch on areas on the border between imagination and reality. The exploration of the surreal, the apocalyptic and the psychoanalytical can radiate in a variety of directions and invoke different visual genres. In the arts, visual aesthetics and forms of expression in these areas are never completely lost and recur cyclically in an intensified form.
With the spread of the internet and smartphones in the 2010s, more and more people are suddenly uploading their content to the web, all knowledge about the past and present seems accessible, and the end of the world predicted for 2012 is not happening. Algorithmic processes are beginning to affect our everyday lives and the text format as a coordinate of reality seems to have lost its dominance. The concept of Gestalt, a topos of German-speaking intellectual history, describes the problem of the transition from the externally perceptible world to the inner world of imagination. It combines the activity of action with the passivity of perception to form a unity in which the transition between perception and meaning merges.
