This film still shows a drawing of a landscape in simple black and white with a mixed creature that has a table lamp for a torso and human legs. There is also writing delicately superimposed over the drawing. William Kentridge, Sammlung Goetz Munich

Sammlung Goetz

Imagination Becomes Reality. Part III: Talking Pictures

February 19 – June 2, 2006

“In Talking Pictures, the third part of my Imagination Becomes Reality series of exhibitions, I would like to present some unashamedly narrative works of artitsts from the collection. Using film or canvas, they confront us with stories or fragments that we can elaborate in our own imaginations. The strong narrative accent in the various works of these artists should nevertheless not prevent us from seeing in them representative views of where painting stands today.“ (Ingvild Goetz)

With Nigel Cooke, Peter Doig, Inka Essenhigh, William Kentridge, Jochen Kuhn, Rosilene Luduvico, Michael Raedecker, Hiroshi Sugito and David Thorpe.

Talking Pictures is not so much about images that actually ‘talk‘ – in the sense of films, videos and soundtracks underscored with monologues, dialogues, texts and language. Instead, it is more about the specific qualities and possibilities of the visual and how the viewer can relate to them. This is a quality derived from the history of painting. As long as painting deployed comprehensible signs, color chords, compositions, moods and motifs, these were universally legible. Today, however, we have to ask ourselves just which visual elements of the media are still universally legible and which are comprehensible only to an open-minded and at the same time highly individualised viewpoint. This exhibition addressed some key issues rooted in the history and function of painting as a means of visual communication and transposed them to the multiplicity of contemporary art production. Talking Pictures explored the issue of how images become ‘talking pictures‘ that convey specific and precise statements to the viewer.

Imagination Becomes Reality
Part III. Talking Pictures

224 pages, 75 ill., hardcover
German/English
2006, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
ISBN 3-9808063-7-5
€ 15,00

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Imagination Becomes Reality
(Special limited slipcase edition)

On the occasion of the exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, a limited special edition has been published in a slipcase. It comprises all five exhibition catalogues of the exhibition cycle Imagination Becomes Reality, shown in the Munich rooms of the Sammlung Goetz, the sixth catalogue of the Karlsruhe exhibition, and a graphic work specially produced and signed for this edition.