Exhibition Building Mathildenhöhe
March 8 through June 7, 2009
An international themed exhibition staged in cooperation with Musée d’Orsay, Paris and NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Preview and masked ball: Saturday March 7, 2009 from 6.30 p.m.
Because it discloses through disguise and disguises by disclosing, the mask touches the very roots of mankind and life itself. While in the cultures of antiquity it was of major importance as a cult object and a theater requisite since the mid-19th century the mask experienced a remarkable renaissance in Europe: Its »disconcerting strangeness« is experienced as extraordinary enrichment and aesthetic revival. The suggestive power of masks – with its capacity to reflect the whole individual or even create him anew – inspired numerous artists, sculptors and photographers about 1900.
“A mask tells us more than a face” Oscar Wilde
Read more at Mathildenhoehe info Darmstadt
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1 comment:
we wear a mask everyday different types we never have our own face, this is very interesting.
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