"Hypercreatures – Mythologies of the Future" at the Max Ernst Museum
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Browse, cut, paste - and create a new work from snippets: The collage. Surrealists loved it, and to this day the technique remains relevant. This is evidenced by the exhibition at the Max Ernst Museum.
With scissors and scalpel, he set to work: Max Ernst meticulously disassembled the images of human and non-human bodies to then reassemble them into new creatures in his collages. A typical method of Surrealism, which is also being increasingly practiced again today. For this, the exhibition brings together examples from around 20 contemporary artists: hybrid beings that combine elements of human, animal, machine, or plant, responding to societal changes or current developments in science and technology.
