Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
2018–2019
November 4, 2018–March 15, 2019 For the first time, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst presents collectively all twenty-six works and series by Sigmar Polke from the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection. The variety of techniques, artistic interests, and references Polke uses are exemplified within the exhibition. The common thread weaving together all of the works on view is painting, which shifts from being more to less visible. Polke artfully draws on the connections between painting and other mediums, in particular photography, blurring lines that traditionally set these practices apart. Polke is famed for his anarchic style and methods—assembling diverse materials, motifs, and artistic traditions to create a truly unique pictorial identity. Such experimentations are richly displayed in the current exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, which places emphasis on a novel technique employed by Polke, the method of lenticular printing. This method creates the illusion of changes in depth as the onlooker shifts their viewing angle. The images thus become animated with the viewer’s movements. Thirty of the eighty works presented in the exhibition utilize lenticular printing, many of which will be shown for the very first time. Learn more at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.