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 âPLASTIC WORLDâ, 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 RĂ©alisme to the ecocritical positions of recent times.
