“SUR/FACE: Mirrors,” an exhibition featuring mirrored surfaces is on view at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt.The exhibition explores the function of mirrored surfaces when it comes to art, architecture, and design. It poses questions such as what is the impact of the omnipresent experience of mirrors on us human beings, how are mirror effects used in design, and how does art reflect on them. The selection on display features products by such designers as Ron Arad, Ettore Sottsass and Oskar Zieta and artworks by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Isa Genzken, Andy Warhol and many others. The exhibition contains more than 100 objects made of mirrored glass, highly polished metal or reflective plastic. “SUR/FACE: Mirrors” holds room constellations that will let the viewers’ take center stage and enter into a dialogue with the objects and the architecture.Mirrors were once considered to be a rare luxury, in the 19th-century commercial methods of manufacturing them were invented and with the advent of modern architecture, they have become an important and essential part of our environment. As a medium of self-awareness, the mirror is the theme of numerous philosophical and psychoanalytical studies. Sigmund Freud derived his theory of melancholy from the myth of Narcissus; according to Jacques Lacan, the human being becomes conscious of selfhood when he recognizes his own mirror image during the “mirror stage;” and Jean-Paul Sartre sees the emergence of self-awareness as founded in the “gaze of the other.” Today the mirror oscillates more than ever between the medium of contemplative self-perception and pure stimulation of the senses.The exhibition is on view through October 1, 2017 at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Schaumainkai 17, 60594 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.For details, visit: www.museumangewandtekunst.de/en/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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