Opening

OPENING: MELVIN EDWARDS – SOME BRIGHT MORNING

Friday, Aug 30, 2024, 7 pm – 11 pm

The Fridericianum cordially invites you and your friends to the opening of the exhibition SOME BRIGHT MORNING by Melvin Edwards.

With a forward-looking approach to modernism, Melvin Edwards established a practice in the 1960s that is marked by great originality and stringency. His oeuvre includes relief-like wall objects – the Lynch Fragments – barbed wire installations, free-standing sculptures, and works on paper. Although the art of Edwards, born in 1937 in Houston, Texas, can be located within the realm of abstraction, his works evoke vivid images. These are directly linked to the historical context of the United States from which the Civil Rights movement emerged. The works can be read as an expression of a socio- political awareness and a protest that has lost none of its urgency to this day.

The show at the Fridericianum is the first major presentation of Edwards’s work in Europe. It is being realized in cooperation with Kunsthalle Bern and Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Friday, August 30, 2024, at 7 pm
Children’s vernissage, 5.30 – 7 pm

With vegan BBQ and music

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoffmann (Managing Director, documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH)
Staatsminister Timon Gremmels (Hessian Minister of Higher Education, Research and the Arts)
Eva Claudia Scholtz (Executive Director, Cultural Foundation of Hesse)
Moritz Wesseler (Director, Fridericianum)

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