The outstanding range of artists and value of the art pieces in the Marx Collection is permanently deposited in Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. It comes to Poland for this special eight-week exhibition.

The artworks presented within the exhibition document the history of contemporary art from 1970s through today. The years of 1970s and 1980s are represented by German artists from the Neue Wilde movement (Martin Disler, Walter Dahn, Reiner Fetting, Salomé) as well as the Italian Transavantgarde painters (Sandro Chia, EnzoCucchi).

A key facet of this show is Anselm Kiefer works, in which Tachisme, conceptual art and Arte Povera are combined to create monumental “historical paintings.”

The same period in art in America is represented by Julian Schnabel works – a representative of New Image Painting, the author of collages which continuing American tradition of  "unhierarhic painting."

The 1990s are represented by Fiona Rae –a  member of the Young British Artists (YBA). Her works are placed in the post-modern abstractive expressionism trend.

At the beginning of the 21st century – figurativeness begun to dominate in paintings again. This tendency is represented in the Marx Collection by German and Polish artists like: Wilhelm Sasnal, Tim Eitel, Eberhard Havekost, Rafał Bujnowski and Roman Lipski.

The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue with critical texts/ essays about expansion and evolution of painting in the four last decades. It is illustrated by the art works presented at the exhibition.

• Source:  culture.pl

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