Frank Bowling & Carolee Schneemann | Postwar — Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965 | Haus der Kunst

Hales London New York is delighted to announce the inclusion of Frank Bowling's and Carolee Schneemann's work in a major new exhibition at the prestigious Haus der Kunst in Munich. The exhibition runs from 14 October 2016 to 26 March 2017.

 

Postwar - Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965 examines the vibrant and turbulent postwar period as a global phenomenon for the first time in recent exhibition history. In eight dramatic chapters, the exhibition guides visitors through the first 20 years following the end of World War II, demonstrating how artists coped with and responded to the traumas of the Holocaust, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; how the two political blocs of the Cold War exploited the arts and created competition between realism and abstraction, and how displacement and migration produced new cosmopolitan contexts across the world. The postwar period also marked the end of European colonial systems; the rise of nation-building, decolonization and liberation movements; the partition of countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; as well as the civil rights movement in the United States. These changes unleashed an incredible energy visible in the art of the time. New technologies began to pour into everyday life; the space age fascinated artists as well as the masses, opening up a completely new and dynamic field of artistic consideration. 

 


 

Frank Bowling / Carolee Schneemann

Postwar - Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965

Haus der Kunst 

Prinzregentenstraße 1
80538 Munich
Germany

 

14 October 2016 - 26 March 2016

September 28, 2016