Mindset Los Angeles – Works from the Schürmann Collection

During this period, the Los Angeles art scene—as a broad cultural mindset—extends across the entire museum. Selected works from the extensive Schürmann Collection present seminal artistic perspectives from the 1990s and 2000s. About At the heart of the Lippold Gallery stands Jason Rhoades's laboratory-like installation The Great See Battles of Wilhelm Schürmann (1994–95), inspired by photographs taken by the collector. Questions of social fragmentation, tension, and conflicting imagery—often within the framework of US (consumer) culture—set the conceptual backdrop for the sculptures and paintings gathered here. Once again, Marta's architecture as a site of spatial experience—and the ever-resonant Herford–Los Angeles axis—comes sharply into focus within the museum's exhibition program. Additional content and further information on the exhibited works and artists are available in the accompanying exhibition app: https://app.interkit.marta-herford.de/app/t8vBWctGdzteafL2q/. A catalog in German and English, edited by Marta Herford, will be published to accompany the exhibition. Spanning 192 pages, the publication brings together essays by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Sylvia Lavin, and Ann Kristin Kreisel, as well as two interviews: one with Larry Bell by Marcus Herse and another with Wilhelm Schürmann by Kathleen Rahn. It includes a foreword by the director of Marta Herford, more than 200 illustrations, historical documents, and original quotations by Frank Gehry. The hardcover volume (ISBN 978-3-7533-1042-8) will be published in late July by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. It will be priced at €37 in the Marta shop during the exhibition and €42 thereafter. Artists Edgar Arceneaux, Sam Durant, Sean Duffy, Richard Hawkins, Jason Rhoades, Aura Rosenberg Read more Toggle Mixed media Sculpture Installation Painting