Whether in everyday life or in art, people have always been fascinated by plastic. The film to the exhibition shows how differently artists deal with the paradoxical material between miracle material and ecological threat.
Plastic is everywhere. It permeates the present, is cheap, is available nearly all over the world, and is omnipresent in everyday life. Whether hard or flexible, transparent, opaque, patterned, smooth, delicate, or colorful, today it can be used to produce nearly anything. But what does this mean for art? With the extensive exhibition “PLASTIC WORLD”, the SCHIRN is focusing for the first time on the material history and aesthetics of plastic. The exhibition film shows the broad spectrum of plastics in the visual arts, ranging from the euphoria of pop culture to the futuristic influence of the Space Age and the trash works of Nouveau Réalisme to the ecocritical positions of recent times.
