Evening Classes – Comparative Visual Analysis. Today
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Tuesdays + Thursdays, 7 – 8.30 pm
Comparative visual analysis entails a dialogical perception and the application of visual thinking. At the beginning of the 20th century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin pioneered the development of comparative formal analysis in the history of art. For the first time ever, reproductions of artworks were projected side by side using a set of twin parallel projectors. What back then was a revolutionary approach on his part, remains to this day still the most common method in art history, even despite the presence of PowerPoint. With Evening Classes this academic practice is now integrated into the exhibition context, though not without liberating it from its indoctrinating usage and by questioning it as a method. Implicated in this series of events is the invitation for unexpected test arrangements and comparative situations that allow both to support and topple this methodology.
I. Thursday, December 03, 2009, 7 pm:
Charlotte Klonk: Sehen im Museum (Seeing in the Museum) / Beatrice von Bismarck: Vorher – Nachher (Before – After)
