Stendhal syndrome by Kapurani Brothers
Curated by Tinatin Ghughunishvili-Brück
Opening: Friday, September 4th, 2020, 6pm
Address: Preysingstraße 85, 81667 Munich, Jugendkirche München
Exhibition dates: September 4 - 13, 2020 Opening hours: 11am - 6pm
and by appointment.




The question that arises here and is addressed in the exhibition is not new, but it continues to occupy contemporary artists as well as exhibition makers and theorists. Does art have a spiritual potential? What role can it play for society in a time when religion is increasingly being abandoned? Can art, through its ambiguity, take the place of religion as an expression of the creative force, the definition of which eludes all rationality and yet has accompanied the history of humanity since its beginnings?
This question has probably been asked ever since an image was not yet art, passes through the whole history of art, embeds its roots in religion and surpasses itself in the Renaissance, emancipates itself and experiences once again its full growth in the abstract art of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Rothko.
With their works, the Kapurani Brothers attempt to define the symbolic language of this possibility on the one hand, and on the other hand to formally reflect one of the aspects of the contemplative area of art perception or even the immersion in art that occurs in the Stendhal Syndrome, thus overcoming the distance between the work and the viewer.