Daimler Contemporary
9 December 2004 - 28 March 2005
New Aquisitions
The Daimler Art Collection was initiated in 1977, and has now grown to include about 1300
works by over 300 German and international artists. At first it concentrated
on classical panel painting, then from the early 1990s media works in
the broadest sense have been incorporated, regularly, and with great clarity
of focus. This includes prestigious works by artist like Nam June Paik,
François Morellet, Walter Giers, Christian Megert, Michael Wesely, Pietro
Sanguineti and others.
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Sylvie
Fleury: Beauty Case;
Video auf DVD 30 Min.
For some years this - overall still narrowly based - photography,
video and Mixed Media section has been extended rather more energetically.
One factor here has been the collection's basic tendency towards constructive,
minimalist and conceptual trends as signposts through the overwhelming
range of media art since about 1960. Another factor is that site-specific
considerations have played an important part: in Germany we have paid
particular attention to contemporary art developments in Stuttgart and
Berlin, and at the same time acquisition planning has taken a long-term
look at cultural developments in Asia, Africa and South America, where
Daimler is a major presence.