Monday, April 19, 2010

Album cover

Pictured: Jos, Nanneke, T, at the remote Insel Hombroich museum in Germany near Dusseldorf. This museum would be a great place to stage an album cover, all the elements are here in the picture.

We loved this museum for how it is curated. There are no explanations given for any of the artwork. Stone-age sculptures are shown side by side with modern paintings. No information about any of the work is presented, not even a tag to show the year the work was created, the title, or the name of the artist. It changes how one experiences the artwork. Rather than reading, we looked. It felt right.

The museum is on an old military base. The site has been restored to a nature preserve, with a series of stand-alone buildings created specifically to hold art.  This was a great day.
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