DANIEL SPOERRI. I Like Contradictions - In Dialogue With Works from the Falckenberg Collection: Cat. Falckenberg Collection

The exhibition » I Love Contradictions&« at the Sammlung Falckenberg offers a new perspective on the work of Daniel Spoerri (1930- 2024) and the enduring relevance of his artistic thinking. After his first career as a classical dancer, Spoerri co-founded the Nouveaux Ré alistes group in Paris in 1960 together with Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and other fellow artists, evolving into a formative representative of object art. Distancing himself from abstract art and building on the readymades and Neo-Dada of the 1960s, Spoerri created his own art genre with his » snare pictures&« and established Eat Art in the 1970s. In dialogue with works from the Sammlung Falckenberg, the diverse connections between Daniel Spoerri' s artistic approach and the consumer-critical and socially critical stances found in the collection unfold. Artists like Dieter Roth or Emmett Williams were companions of Spoerri' s during the 1960s and 70s; Gianfranco Baruchello, Ö yvind FahlstrÖ m, and Spoerri exhibited together with the Nouveaux Ré alistes for the first time in New York in 1962. Material-aesthetic and conceptual parallels can in turn be found in the work of Mark Dion, Mariella Mosler et.al.