ELLIOT R. WOLFSON

@ ULRIKE GROSSARTH

Retrospective / Generali

Foundation Vienna

January 24 – June 29, 2014

Retrospective “Were I Made of Matter, I Would Color. ULRIKE GROSSARTH: Retrospective”

at the Generali Foundation in Vienna, January 24 – June 29, 2014
Curated by SABINE FOLIE and ILSE LAFER
www.foundation.generali.at

 

Image: Ulrike Grossarth, Bau I (Construction I), Berlin 1989-2000, Exhibition View, Photo: Stephan Wykoff, © Generali Foundation

ELLIOT R. WOLFSON’s work on the kabbalists’ poetic imagination, imaginal bodies, and the process of creation enters mesmerizing connections with the fractured work of ULRIKE GROSSARTH.

In the absence of imagination there is no form, not even the form of the formless, and without form there is no vision and hence no knowledge. Alternatively expressed, there is no naked truth to be divulged, only the semblance of truth unveiled in the veil of truth. If the secret is imagined to be a truth that is completely disrobed—that is, a truth divested of all appearance—then the secret is nothing to see. By contrast, the truth that is truly apparent is disclosed in and through the garment of its concealment.

Elliot R. Wolfson
From his Lecture @ Generali Foundation Vienna, April 23, 2014

Within theframework of the exhibition
ELLIOT R. WOLFSON taught a seminar and held a lecture on
“Bifurcating the Androgyne: Engendering Sexuality in the Zohar” and “Shekihah as Mundus Imaginalis: Polymorphism and the Prism of Imagination.”

A Publication accompanying the Exhibition

Ulrike Grossarth. Were I made of matter, I would color, Eds. Sabine Folie, Ilse Lafer
with texts by Mieke Bal, Rainer Borgemeister, Michael Glasmeier, Ulrike Grossarth, and Elliot R. Wolfson, et al, is forthcoming.

Generali Foundation
Wiedner Hauptstraße 15
1040 Vienna, Austria
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