“Europa/Amerika”
Museum Ludwig
“Europa/Amerika. Die Geschichte einer künstlerischen Faszination seit 1940” (Europe/America. History of an artistic fascination since 1940) was the ambitious title of the first special exhibit presented by the Museum Ludwig. But the show was a boring disaster. Crowded into shoebox spaces, the theme was presented in the form of a confrontation between 60 American and 66 European artists. Each room had its common denominator (abstraction, figuration, montage), yet the choice of both artists and works seemed in the final analysis arbitrary, since almost no dialogue developed. What does a series of