Invisible Shadows
Images of Uncertainty
4 September – 7 November 2010
Opening: Friday, 3 September 2010, 19.30
Crisis, what crisis? Both positive and negative events come, go or cast their shadows, much as does the flood of information, comments and prognoses that accompanies them — but the perceived pace seems to be quickening. However, newspapers, television or the internet fail to mention the indescribable growing sense of foreboding which is developing somewhere in between. Vague fears, barely palpable anxieties and underlying threats shape an attitude to life that has lost a lot of its serenity somewhere between a changing present and an uncertain future. In short: the quest for answers, security and a clear order usually leads to the uncomfortable realisation that the world is confusing and puzzling, and on top of everything else, is in constant motion.
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Richard Neutra in Europe
Buildings and Projects 1960 – 1970
8th of May – 1st August 2010
Austro-American architect Richard Neutra (born 1892 in Vienna, died 1970 in Wuppertal), one of the most important representatives of “Classic Modernism”, was best known for his houses in Southern California. His designs combined light metal structures with stucco elements to create light, pervious ensembles, which he embedded with great sensitivity in carefully arranged gardens and landscapes.
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The Photographer Julius Shulman
A Lifetime for Architecture
8 May – 1 August 2010
Parallel to the exhibition “Richard Neutra in Europe”, Marta Herford will present an exhibition with photos by the legendary photographer Julius Shulman compiled and curated by Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt/Main (DAM). Shulman (1910-2009) covered the buildings of Richard Neutras and other protagonists of American Modernist architecture like no other photographer, thereby creating icons of the American way of life.
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