Paradies und zurück

The Locus of Paradise\n\nThe Sammlung Rheingold has generated increased public interest with its acquisition of part of the Sammlung Speck (Cologne) this spring. Schloß Dyck, situated between Mönchengladbach, Krefeld und Düsseldorf, is considered by connoisseurs of exquisite landscape architecture and gardens to be a veritable paradise for an excursion with its baroque ensemble of complementary features. It is here that a broad-based, thematic overview of the Sammlung Rheingold's holdings will be on show for the first time. \n\nVeit Loers, responsible for the catalogue and the exhibition, has brought together both the location and the exhibited works. He contrasts the picturesque extension of the garden concept out of the estate into the landscape itself with works, which may indeed have paradise as a starting point, but which are in turn intent on illuminating the sadness surrounding its demise-all of this housed in the imposing, majestic and stately halls and suites. The peculiarity of this project is thus located in the pendulum swing between the ideal and its destruction, generating an unusual degree of tension in the presentation of top-notch works in this stately environment.\n\nThere will be series of new works- all of them almost exclusively new-by the following artists on display: Georg Baselitz, Alexandra Bircken, Mircea Cantor, Cerith Wyn Evans, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Eberhard Havekost, Christian Jankowski, William Kentridge, Jochen Lempert, Jonathan Meese, Boris Mikhailov, Albert Oehlen/Jonathan Meese, Peter Piller, Daniel Richter, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Tal R.