Stringtangas und Schnappschüsse

Zeitgeist & Glamour. The decades of the jet set "with Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Harry Benson, Guy Bourdin, Bob Colacello, Raymond Depardon, Terence Donovan, Elliott Erwitt, Nat Finkelstein, Ron Galella, Ormond Gigli, Dennis Hopper, Frank Horvat , William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Christopher Makos, Billy Name, Terry O'Neill, Edward Quinn, Bob Richardson, Steve Schapiro, Melvin Sokolsky, Jeanloup Sieff, Francesco Scavullo, Jerry Schatzberg, Christian Skrein, Lord Snowdon, Bert Stern, Bob Willoughby , Andy Warhol, Garry Winogrand and Others - NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf. From 5 February to 15 May 2011

A little bit of it already looked like a gala event, albeit without international stars - the opening of "Zeitgeist & Glamour. Only Jade Jagger, only daughter of Mick and Bianca looked over briefly to let their picture taken in front of the press wall with the prominent sponsor logo. But for many visitors had thrown in shell to face the entrance of the fake camera flashes. Only cardboard cutout with these paparazzi strobes simulated situation. For an art exhibition is such a fuss rather unusual - in this case, but somehow appropriate.

For the first time to see over 400 exhibits from the Nicola Erni Collection. The Swiss five years ago bought some black and white photographs that show the jet set in St Moritz - to lay the foundation for her current collection. Without a solid concept that grew to around 1,000 works from the 1960s and 70s, and Ernie finally asked the NRW Forum, whether there should not issue. And so here's a smorgasbord become of sometimes great, mostly unknown fashion shots and portraits by Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Bert Stern and Diane Arbus, rare paparazzi trophies by Ron Galella, Edward Quinn and Milton Gendel and simple snapshots that curated by Ira standing man and the NRW-Forum presents an equal footing in a very nice Clusterhängung.

The fact that Ernie does not collect all the famous recordings, the visitor gets better as not to see what he already knows well enough anyway. At the same time carries the mixture of trivial and masterly, the everyday and special potential for an interesting juxtaposition, finally, this requires a whatever the other. However, the spark will not always skip: candid snapshots remain, even if stars like Alain Delon and Romy Schneider to see it. It becomes interesting to the paparazzi pictures, if bizarre or bare moments are captured - Playboy Gunter Sachs had always been an easy subject, for example, when open-air chess match against a clothed only with a thong young lady. Grotesk is a picture of Fred W. McDarrah: It shows Arnold Schwarzenegger to visit in Andy Warhol's Factory - the speechlessness of intellectual muscle-bound by the stresses casually in his pockets plug hands underlined.

Pop took the time to pop all stripes: artists celebrated fashion designers, intellectuals, rich, beautiful and noble. It was the time of "anything goes" and the radical - even if seen by the latter nothing. The most rebellious images are those of a staged pillow fight of the Beatles in a hotel room and the most violent record, perhaps the one where Sonia Romanoff the intrusive paparazzo Rino Barillari their ice cream cone in his face pressed - if you scarred by Andy Warhol's belly, photographed by Richard Avedon, even apart .

The political and social upheavals and the protest movements of the sixties and seventies, in the Nicola Collection Ernie does not address. They had been "deliberately omitted" because other exhibits these issues already had sufficient lighting. A few seem to be the curator soothe her conscience but still want to listen to a wall and terms such as "NATO Double-Track Decision," "oil crisis" and "Incense" on - Opening of the Düsseldorf-visitors, they remain largely ignored.

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