Wolfgang Nestler: Inner Life
22. September 2012 – 21. October 2012
0.00 – 23.59 Uhr
Wolfgang Nestler’s art project in Aachen’s Couven Museum starts out with a photographic exploration. The artist’s interest is focussed on the old Aachen Townhouse and its historical “residents”. Nestler uses his camera to capture faces, heads and figures. He records objects and spatial compositions that have a special significance. Liberated photographically from their context by the artist and transferred into close-up, faces shapes and objects become amenable to different perception. Each individual photograph opens an associative space for the observer in which to relate personally with the image. Local explorations by pupils of the Höfener Heckenland School is the second component of the project. The pupils also follow the historical tracks of life in Haus Monheim, and enter into a dialogue with the artist and his works. This generates new fields of action that bring today’s lifestyle into play.
Wolfgang Nestler, twice a participant in documenta and, until 2008, Professor at the Saar College of Fine Arts, has often confronted the general public with art projects that feature buildings as places where people live. His art projects focus on the processual aspect. They involve and include other players. They create relations between places, times and worlds of experience.
The exhibition in the Couven Museum is presented in the context of the Aachen Art Route 2012.
