opening hours:Open by appointment: email vsautier@hgb-leipzig.de, telegram: @sautier, instagram: @valentinsautier
Venue:KV - Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Kolonnadenstrasse 6
04109 Leipzig
Sa, 13.7.2024, 6pm
Finissage and Performance with Sarah Letalik, Aria Schlecht, Emma Toschka
Costume: Rabea Ter Braak
Coordination: Lydia Marx
Sound: Felix Almes
Script: Valentin Sautier
appear³
verb
come into sight; become visible or noticeable, especially without apparent cause.
"smoke appeared on the horizon"
seem; give the impression of being.
"she appeared not to know what was happening“
In a time, where truth feels more and more arbitrary and out of focus in public discourse, appearance arises as the last strand of palpable fact. There is no point in trying to prove appearance, as it is by definition already relative. For something to be perceived, it simply has to give the impression of being.
The Schönheitengalerie⁴ at Munich’s Nymphenburg Palace forms the basis of 36 Beauties. Selected by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, 36 portraits of his women contemporaries gaze at today’s visitors in a tile-like arrangement.
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Text: Carla Huttenloher
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³ All definitions: Oxford Dictionary
⁴ Artists: Karl Joseph Stieler, Friedrich Dürck: 36 portraits of particularly "beautiful" women from the reign of King Ludwig
I of Bavaria, each measuring 60 x 70 cm, Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, 36 portraits are by Stieler (1827-1850), one
is now lost. 2 further portraits were added by Dürck in 1861.
