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Commission d'Expertise: Helmut Draxler

Seminar by Helmut Draxler about the truth in Netherlandisch painting under the title "The Transformation of the Same. How to think the Historicity of Contemporary Art" with an excursion to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

Helmut Draxler: "Is there still anything at all in common in what we see as contemporary art? – It’s precisely the presentness or presence and the associated claims to truth that indicate a very specific form of historicity." (Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
Helmut Draxler: "The Netherlandish painting of the early 15th century idiffers programmatically from the purely mimetic as well as the purely pedagogical provisions, and above all it can be clearly distinguished from Alberti's conception of the image." (Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
Helmut Draxler: "It's four pictorial ideas – the image as threshold, the antagonistic image, the analytical and the synthetical image - can be considered as strategies of painting’s self-assertion as art, struggling with the problem of its truth and presence or contemporaneity. In this understanding, Netherlandish Painting is already contemporary art, contemporary at least with regard to its own time." (Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
(Photo: Steffen Zillig)
(Photo: Elena Conradi)
(Photo: Elena Conradi)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
Steffen Zillig and Marina Pinsky (Photo: Elena Conradi)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
Hans-Jürgen Hafner and Koen Brams (Photo: Steffen Zillig)
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