BEATING WINGS. Insects in Contemporary Art
July 7 to October 13, 2019
In cooperation with the Senckenberg Nature Museum Frankfurt
The relationship between humans and insects has always been ambivalent: usefulness and damage, curse and blessing, fascination and phobia come to mind. The pressing issue of the disappearance of insects, however, has changed human perspective on the little creatures: their indisputable importance for the earth’s fragile ecological balance and biodiversity has come into sharper focus. Their increasing absence is becoming more and more noticeable, and this also increases our longing for their return. Now the animals which were driven away for decades by means of insecticides and insect traps are being treated to “insect hotels” in gardens, and beehives abound in unexpected places.
“Once bees are extinct from the earth, mankind has four more years to live. No more bees means no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more humans.”
Albert Einstein
In the exhibition BEATING WINGS, the Museum Sinclair-Haus presents artists who explore this shift in the relationship between humans and insects in their works, finding their own approach to these strange creatures. The exhibition features many different sculptures, reliefs, drawings, photographs, films and installations – and a myriad of discoveries concerning the subject of insects.
(Text: Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe)
MUSEUM SINCLAIR-HAUS
July 7 to October 13, 2019
Löwengasse 15
Entrance Dorotheenstraße
61348 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
Germany
Available works of the artist
Past exhibitions at Beck & Eggeling
Selected Publications of the Artist
BE Highlights 2020
- Artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Aljoscha, Herbert Beck, Gehard Demetz, Bertozzi & Casoni, Joachim Brohm, Marc Chagall, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Kwang Young Chun, Lucien Clergue, Piero Dorazio, Gerhard Hoehme, Anselm Kiefer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Heinz Mack, August Macke, Fausto Melotti, Giorgio Morandi, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Pablo Picasso, Fabrizio Plessi, Rudolf Polanszky, Chris Reinecke, Gerhard Richter, Norbert Tadeusz, Manolo Valdés
Editor: Michael Beck, Ute Eggeling
Text: Aljoscha, Michael Beck, Jil Campisi, Ute Eggeling, Andrea Knop, Andrea Krause, Kirsten Nordahl, Katja Ott, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Sebastian Schemann, Miriam Walgate
Design: Antonia Eggeling - English, German
Softcover, 25 x 21 cm
120 pages, 92 illustrations - Beck & Eggeling Kunstverlag, 2020
ISBN 978-3-94606324-7 - 20 €