18/10/15 - 21/02/16
Carnal Desire ¬
In the New Testament the meat stands for the beginning of the Christian creation myth. No man, no God, no survival and no art without meat. The material and symbol of life, death, decay and mysticism draws its bloody trail through art history since the market- and kitchen-pieces of the Renaissance. Meat, the central artistic Vanitas-motif, has become in the Western world of commerce an important food, a raw material of body design and a genetic resource. This fact opens a wide field of subjects and content contexts that will be examined in this exhibition.
In an ambivalent tension between fascination and provocation different positions of body art, performance art, sculpture, painting, photography and video art broach the issue of meat as a living plastic material, as a formal-aesthetic motif and means of expression of existential feelings, as a symbol of catharsis and a topos of aggression, vitality, death and preservation, as a symbol of impulsiveness and physical design will and as a metaphor for the impermanence and metamorphosis.
: The exhibition will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue (Hardcover / german/english / 148 pages / 20 €) with numerous images und texts von Stefanie Dathe, Cathrin Nielsen, Volker Demuth, Rudi Holz- berger and Jörg Scheller.
With kind support


Interesting Facts ¬
Prices ¬
Adult 6 €
Student, Senior, Schwäbische Zeitung Abo-card, Groups from 10
Persons 4 € p.P.
Family 10 €
Opening Hours ¬
Wed – Sat 2–5pm
Sun and Holiday 11am–5pm
Café: Sat, Sun and Holiday from 2pm
Closed: Good Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmasday, New Year’s Eve
A guided tour can be booked anytime by agreement.
Direction ¬
Museum Villa Rot
Schlossweg 2
D-88483 Burgrieden – Rot
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