The exhibition Epidermis – Conditio humana – Cosmos is the fifth presentation from the collection of the Hilti Art Foundation since opening its exhibition building in May 2015.
The show features thirty-three paintings, sculptures, photographs and other pictorial works that revolve around the themes "Epidermis", "Conditio humana" and "Cosmos" in what is an epoch-spanning display.
The focus in the first room is on the epidermis, the "skin" or surface of artworks consisting of materials including wax, cement, plastic foil, nylon, canvas or photographic paper used in different ways.
In the second room, paintings and sculptures from the classical modern period spotlight the circumstances of life as conditions of human existence.
The third room looks at the theme of "Cosmos" understood as a consideration and artistic interpretation of the world with regard to natural and abstract orders. In 1915, Ferdinand Hodler, for example, portrays the Swiss mountainscape in exquisite majesty, while Stéphane Kropf drafts images of these landscapes on the computer, transferring them onto canvas in a simplified form.
Frank Theil exhibits Perito Moreno #16, 2012/2013.
The exhibition is curated by Uwe Wieczorek, curator of the Hilti Art Foundation.