MAC - Museum Art & Cars

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The MAC Museum Art & Cars is located at the foot of the Hohentwiel mountain in Singen , Germany . In the two museum buildings MAC 1 and MAC 2, vintage cars are exhibited in dialogue with art on a total of more than four thousand m² . The MAC 1 fulfills the task of preserving the assets of the Südwestdeutsche Kunststiftung and making them accessible to the public. The MAC 2 shows international light art, video mapping and photography.

MAC - Museum Art & Cars

history

The Südwestdeutsche Kunststiftung was founded in 1993 with the aim of not only collecting the region’s artistic work, but also presenting it appropriately. The board consists of the couple Hermann Maier and Gabriela Unbehaun-Maier and the Singener Mayor Bernd Häusler . Their holdings have grown to three thousand objects of classical and contemporary art. The Maier couple provided the necessary capital for the construction of the MAC Museum Art & Cars, while the city of Singen contributed the property at Parkstrasse 1 to the foundation.

The museum concept was to create a synthesis between art, automobile and architecture under the principle of uniquely different . The MAC 1 of the MAC Museum Art & Cars was built for the 20th anniversary of the Südwestdeutsche Kunststiftung and opened on November 21, 2013 with the exhibition Wachgeküsst . The aim was to make the museum the home of the Südwestdeutsche Kunststiftung. The regular changing exhibitions offered an overview of the three thousand exhibits of the foundation, the automobiles collector's items and presented international artists.

A few months after the opening of the MAC 1 with around one thousand m² of exhibition space, the idea arose to expand the museum with a second building with more than three thousand square meters in order to be able to show even more automobile rarities and art on a larger area . For this purpose, the couple Gabriela Unbehaun-Maier and Hermann Maier founded the Gabriela and Hermann Maier Foundation and had the MAC 2 built in around two and a half years. The opening was celebrated on June 22nd and 23rd, 2019.

building

The buildings of the MAC 1 and MAC 2 were built according to designs by the Gottmadingen architect Daniel Binder. The curved, earth-colored building of MAC 1 is an idea by Daniel Binder, who uses the architecture to create a connection with Singen's local mountain, Hohentwiel, and its castle ruins. For the MAC 2, too, Daniel Binder oriented himself towards the immediate vicinity of the museum building. With the appearance of two boulders that fell from the local mountain Hohentwiel and came to rest on the Aach - so the underlying idea - the ensemble is now complete.

Exhibitions

Opening exhibition at MAC 1

The opening exhibition kissed awake took place from November 2013 to October 2014. One focus was on exhibits from the Ewald Förderer Collection, which the Art Foundation established to take over. Works by Max Ackermann , Otto Dix , Erich Heckel , Fritz Winter , HAP Grieshaber , Carl Walter Liner , Rudolf Schoofs , KRH Sonderborg and Herbert Zangs were shown .

Temporary exhibitions in the MAC 1

  • October 26, 2014 to September 20, 2015: Andy Warhol . CARS. : In addition to vintage cars from the Mercedes-Benz Classic collection, around 40 works from Warhol's Cars series were shown. The company commissioned the vehicle portraits from the American pop art artist on the occasion of the centenary of the automobile in 1986. In the MAC Museum Art & Cars, the cars and the associated pictures were exhibited together for the first time.
  • October 4, 2015 to May 1, 2016: Moving color : On the ground floor, a selection of BMW Art Cars from the BMW Art Car Collection, which u. a. by the artists Roy Lichtenstein , Jeff Koons , Andy Warhol or AR Penck . Herbert Vogt's paintings complemented the theme.
  • May 5, 2016 to October 23, 2016: Car of remembrance - I Carro della memoria : Exhibition of rare vintage cars from the National Automobile Museum Turin (MAuTo) together with works by the Italian contemporary artist Marcello Mondazzi.
  • October 29, 2016 to May 28, 2017: Color I Shape I Speed: Hermann Wiehl and Jaguar: The story of Jaguar is combined with the works of the Black Forest artist Hermann Wiehl.
  • June 3, 2017 to February 18, 2018: James Francis Gill - PopArt & Cars, American automobile history combined with works by the pop-art artist James Gill .
  • March 4, 2018 to November 11, 2018: Strong women. Strong women and great passions. A journey through time about courageous women in connection with automobiles.
  • November 23 to September 22, 2019: PEOPLE. Scholz & Elsner. An automotive cross-section from the 1950s, as well as the inner situation of people in paintings by Günter Scholz and Gerhard Elsner .

Opening exhibition at MAC 2

  • since June 21, 2019: Sport - Design - Elegance : On four levels and in the 18 meter high light dome, the opening exhibition in the MAC 2 shows milestones from the world of the automobile and design history, as well as light art, photography and video mapping. Photos by Fabian Oefner , Nick Veasey , Rainer W. Schlegelmilch , Werner Eisele and Dino Eisele can be seen as well as light art by the Konstanz artist Markus Brenner, pop art by Heiner Meyer , carbon art by Alastair Gibson and works by Dirk Patschkowski and the Bilderbuben . The exhibits also include rarities from the Swiss car manufacturer Monteverdi .

Culture and events

The concept of cultural mediation includes concerts, readings, lectures and art performances. There are statues by the sculptor Peter Lenk in the museum garden .

Publications

  • Opening book "Kissed awake"
  • Friedrich Ilse: Shaped by nature - to the architecture of the MAC - Museum Art & Cars
  • Booklets accompanying the exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2013 - Museum "Art & Cars". December 13, 2019, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  2. ^ MAC - Museum Art & Cars | Singing KulturPur. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Astonishing architecture: MAC Museum Art & Cars, Singen - image 4. Accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ MAC Museum Art & Cars - precious oldtimers in dialogue with art. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hayit media: Warhol works in the MAC Museum in Singen. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 39.6 ″  E