Antri Koumidou
Berlin
Germany
Time for Fragments, Works from the Marx Collection and the Collection of the Nationalgalerie
While in the Renaissance or Romanticism the fragment was conceived of as a vestige of a former whole or of something that was yet to be completed, since the 20th century it has stood as a symbol for a world that is always unfinished. Through paintings, sculptures, photographs and video installations by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol, the presentation Time for Fragments looks into the meaning of this tendency.
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Cover picture: Joseph Beuys, DAS ENDE DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS, 1982–1983, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Sammlung Marx, 1995 erworben durch das Land Berlin, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Thomas Bruns