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The Need For The Portrayal Of The Individual Identity Is Not A Modern Invention: The Idealization Of The Sitter Was Already A Matter Of Course In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Portrait Painting. In The Exhibition, Contemporary Portraits Are Juxtaposed With This Convention From An Earlier Era. What Is Revealed Is A Timelessness Of The Genre, As Well As Pictoral Evidence Of Social Rejection In Contemporary Portrait Painting: Loneliness, Shattered States, Physical And Emotional Abuse. The Exhibition At The Museum Langmatt Compares The Different Epochs And Searches For The Conventions Of Contemporary Self-Portrayal. Portraits By Such Artists Such As Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Edgar Degas, And Pierre-Auguste Renoir Enter Into Dialogue With Internationally Renowned Contemporary Artists Like Michaël Borremans, Marlene Dumas, And Luc Tuymans.

Exhibition: 17.9.–10.12.2017, Museum Langmatt, Baden