The Immediate Touch presents more than 120 provocative works of art created after World War II by 39 German-speaking artists.
Featuring works by such influential artists as Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Anselm Kiefer, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter and Dieter Roth, the exhibition includes private explorations into the aesthetics of the drawn line, preparatory sketches for sculptures and highly finished works that are the size and scale of large contemporary paintings.
Selected largely from the Museum's collection and local private collections, these works reveal the foresight of St. Louis collectors. Under the stewardship of a group of perceptive art collectors, directors and curators, St. Louis has become a gathering place for important works by both internationally known artists and artists who until very recently have gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream art market.
Of the 32 living artists featured in the exhibition, 26 were interviewed by Sydney Norton, curatorial assistant in the department of modern and contemporary art and former researcher in the department of prints, drawings and photographs, at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Norton traveled to Germany, Austria and Switzerland to personally speak with these artists, documenting the personal stories behind their works. The Museum has written and produced a catalogue that incorporates this intensive research. The publication will be available in the Saint Louis Art Museum Shop.
Admission to the exhibition is $6 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, $4 for children 6 to 12, free for children younger than 6 and includes an iPod multimedia tour. The iPod multimedia tour is available to visitors 12 and older. A major credit card is required.
Curated by Francesca Herndon-Consagra, curator of prints, drawings and photographs, with the assistance of Sydney Norton, researcher, The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian and Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections, 1946–2007, will be on view through September 7 in the Museum's Main Exhibition Galleries.
The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art. The Museum offers a full range of exhibitions and educational programming generated independently and in collaboration with local, national and international partners. -- www.stlouis.art.museum
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