Sentimental Museum
Musée Sentimental is an exhibition concept by the Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri . It has revolutionized the design of exhibitions with historical reference since the 1970s . No longer only historically significant exhibits were exhibited, but in particular everyday objects or personal memorabilia that were related to the topic. This made the story more understandable and tangible for the visitors. Since then, the term has been used for exhibitions that follow this concept.
history
In 1979 Daniel Spoerri was invited by the then director of the Cologne Art Association, Wulf Herzogenrath , to make an exhibition. Spoerri remembered an idea that he had realized two years earlier with his companion Marie-Louise von Plessen in Paris to found the Center Pompidou : a Musée Sentimental . The Musée expanded Spoerri's idea of the trap picture (Tableau piège) to cover an entire territory. Objects were brought together for an exhibition that showed a sentimental relation to their topic. In Paris, for example, these were the key to the Bastille , the violin of the painter Ingres , the knitting needles of Marie Antoinette and the like. The arrangement within the exhibition was alphabetical in the tradition of the encyclopedia.
So the Musée Sentimental de Cologne was created in Cologne in collaboration with Spoerri's students as a temporary city museum, arranged alphabetically from Adenauer to Zoo . You can see Heinrich Böll's pencil stub, the slip of the first tenant of the Eros Center, Adenauer's rose scissors and much more. A myriad of art, relics and mundane rubbish found their way. The main thing was that these objects conveyed history and were tainted with corresponding anecdotes that could be understood in the exhibition and catalog.
The Musée was continued in Berlin as the Musée Sentimental de Prusse (1981) and the Musée Sentimental de Bâle (1989) on the history of the city of Basel . On January 27, 2011, the study project Meta Sentimental - The Musée Sentimental revisited of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies was presented in the Kulturhalle Tübingen and documented the 1979 exhibition in Cologne. The Musée Sentimental has permanently changed the museum and exhibition landscape since 1979. Not only the high and universally accepted art found its way into the museum collections , but also the rather neglected objects of the prosaic everyday life. If these, with a proven history, provide information and reference to the past, they have been worthy of being included in official museum collections since the Musée .
literature
- Anke te Heesen, Susanne Padberg: Musée Sentimental 1979. An exhibition concept. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3017-4 .
- Graz whisper. A few words about a Musée Sentimental de Graz with Daniel Spoerri. stadtmuseumgraz, Graz 2011, ISBN 978-3-900764-33-3 .
- Small cabinet of rarities of the artists in the Giardino di Daniel Spoerri. Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen 2004, ISBN 3-906747-11-5 . Exhibition, Kunsthaus Grenchen, August 22 to October 3, 2004.
- Draft for an encyclopedia of a Musée Sentimental de Cologne: Reliquien u. Relics from 2 millennia "Cologne incognito" based on an idea by Daniel Spoerri. Catalog Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1979.
Individual evidence
- ^ Draft for a lexicon of a Musée Sentimental de Cologne: Reliquien u. Relics from 2 millennia "Cologne incognito" based on an idea by Daniel Spoerri. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1979.
- ↑ Le Musée Sentimental de Prusse: from a great time! 2nd Edition. Verlag Frölich and Kaufmann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88725-015-X .
- ↑ Le musée sentimental de Bâle: the exhibition is a production by the Galerie Littmann Basel, in the Museum für Gestaltung Basel, from September 30, 1989 to January 14, 1990. Galerie Littmann, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-85700-006-X