As a contribution to the Munich Flower Power Festival, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum is placing current works by the much-acclaimed young ceramic artist Keiyona Stumpf in an exciting relationship with top-class works of art in the Baroque and Rococo halls. The bridge-building challenges visitors to new visual experiences and allows them to discover new aspects in both the old and the modern works through the juxtaposition.
Keiyona's detailed large-format "Crown 1", for example, with its red tones, adds the missing colour of blood to a bronze sculpture of the flayed Bartholomew, thereby intensifying the viewer's sense of cruelty. Conversely, the bronze offers a possible level of interpretation for the abstract modern work. As the artist herself points out, her objects are inspired by the beauty and complexity of nature and invite a variety of associations. Everything seems to be in motion, although the fired clay objects are naturally solid and rigid. Ambivalences like in the Baroque.
