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Städel Museum is currently showing the exhibition MIRROR OF THOUGHTS by the artist duo Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum. The two artists Markus Muntean (b. 1962) and Adi Rosenblum (b. 1962) have been working together since the 1990s. In their primarily painterly oeuvre, they impressively combine their identities to create one artistic signature. The Städel Museum is dedicating a solo exhibition in its Contemporary Art Collection to the artist duo, featuring a video work and eleven large-format paintings – including two new works – whose settings are places of transit: shopping centres, airport terminals, hotels, or offices. Immersed in their own thoughts, the young protagonists stare intently at their smartphones or gaze into the distance, are in motion or look out at the viewer with boredom or irritation.
The work of Muntean/Rosenblum fluctuates between the influences of past art periods and contemporary pop-cultural phenomena. While their compositions are firmly anchored in the pictorial memory of art history, referencing well-known masterpieces from the Renaissance to Modernism, their figures are taken entirely from the present. They stem from an image archive established over many years, fed by …
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Image above: Muntean/Rosenblum (both*1962), Untitled (“Knowledge would not necessarily…”), 2023, Oil, pastel chalks on canvas, 195 x 293 cm, Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami, © Muntean/Rosenblum, Photo: © Sandro E.E. Zanzinger Photographie 2023
