Prague National Gallery will exhibit “Wunderbild” by Katharina Grosse at its home venue.For the National Gallery in Prague, Grosse elaborates a large-scale, site specific painterly installation which radically redefines painting as a performative and architectural medium and responds to the gallery’s industrial space of the late 1920s functionalist style. Her “Wunderbild” is an architectural painting, a spatial image which the viewer inhabits with his/her body and mind. The color gains a volume; the flat surface turns sculptural; the pictorial field crosses the limits of the visual. Epic in scale, the immersive installation reminds us both of a medieval mural and a womb-like cave of a pre-ancient drawing — a post-theatrical chamber of a hyper-technisized, intoxicating environment. The painting takes over the site. The exhibition will be on view from February 16, 2018, through January 6, 2019, at Prague National Gallery, Big Hall of the Trade Fair Palace, Trade Fair Palace, Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7.For details, visit: http://www.ngprague.cz/ Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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