Other Images of Man is now on view Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg. Since antiquity, figuration has been an entry point to the exploration of broader existential topics. In 1959, an exhibition titled New Images of Man curated by Peter Selz and presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York focused on figuration in Europe and America following the Second World War. It presented “a new image of man, often shattered, or distorted, reflecting the anxieties of our century”. The exhibition in New York was preceded in 1950 by Das Menschenbild in unserer Zeit (The Image of Man in Our Time) in Darmstadt, which similarly responded to a post war anxiety through an investigation of the representation of the human form. Today, new institutional presentations focused on the figure continue to be a means of exploring issues of equality, authority, appropriation, inadequacy, empowerment, and identity. Other Images of Man features approximately sixty works by more than thirty artists produced from the 1960s to today. This multi-generational survey explores figuration in painting, photography, sculpture, and video, that expands and upends earlier representations of masculinity and the male form. Visit our website or click the link in our profile for more information. Photos: Roman März #hallartfoundation #hall_collection #schlossderneburg #kunstmuseumschlossderneburg