Christian Philipp Müller
Forgotten Future
29 April – 02 June 1992
Rather the partial reconstruction of an epoch - more a sociological undertaking than an art exhibition. In Forgotten Future Christian Philipp Müller unites four artists of the 50s with their works.
“Modernity became popular at the end oft he Fifties. Lending itself to spectacle, it laid itself open to its worst enemies. Their arguments became independent criteria; ideas about the harmony of art and an aesthetic social hygiene replaced the classic conflict between technological and social elements. This exhibition of works by Le Corbusier, Nicolas Schöffer and Veit Harlan is not intended to reopen the old debate for and against modernity, but to spotlight a historic constellation where the anti-bourgeois early modern style declined and new coalitions were formed.”
Quote from: Helmut Draxler: Harmony and Hygiene. In: Christian Philipp Müller: Vergessene Zukunft / Forgotten Future. Munich 1992, p.4-28, here: p.26
Fig:
[1] Installation view Vergessene Zukunft; Courtesy Kunstverein München e.V. and Edition Artelier Graz 1992, photo: Joss Bachhofer.
[2] From the accompanying film program at the Filmmuseum, May 22-23, 1992.
[3] Installation view: Vergessene Zukunft, Kunstverein München, 1992. Courtesy Kunstverein München e.V.