WORLD PREMIERE

THE GOGOTTES
and

JUDITH MILBERG

A SOULMATE RELATIONSHIP

Gogotte Nº 3, 90 x 96 x 39 cm

Judith Milberg, ‘Orange Loop II’, 2020, pastel and charcoal on wood panels, 3-part, 175 x 150 cm

Special exhibition 2021/22

Curator: Mon Muellerschoen

Napoleon collected them. The Sun King Louis XIV decorated Versailles with them. The Gogottes of Fontainebleau were formed from the local sandstone by natural forces around 30 million years ago and appear to today’s viewer as hyper-modern, timeless sculptures. Fascinatingly, the Gogottes are found exclusively in this region, the French Fontainebleau. A regional find that has fascinated us for centuries with its aesthetics. The Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal is now exhibiting the largest collection of these valuable rock sculptures outside of France for the first time worldwide and is allowing them to correspond with contemporary works by the artist Judith Milberg.

Judith Milberg’s work deals with the processes of creation of our world. “I try to make processes of the unimaginably small and intangibly large visible.” In doing so, she embarks on a search for the mystery of all being and deals intensively in her works with the interactions of geological becoming. With great effort, coal and pigments are incorporated into paper, wood and natural canvases, resulting in surprisingly delicate, powdery-delicate color nuances. In this way, spaces of unique plasticity are created, which correspond in a mystical and yet independent way with the forms and riddles of these fantastic, natural sculptures, as unique as the Gogottes themselves.

The opening

Photos: © Benjamin Hoffmeister, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal

Photo: © Sabine Brauer Photos

The festive opening of the exhibition was attended by various personalities from art and culture, including the actress Maria Furtwängler and actor Axel Milberg, the Director General of the Bavarian National Museum Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel, Annette Heuser from the Otto Beisheim Foundation, Steffi Czerny, founder of DLD, and Marianne Wille, Dallmayr Kaffee.

Dream start in a summer night: The exhibition “The Gogottes and Judith Milberg” was opened with a ceremony on Saturday evening, July 24, 2021, in the Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal. In a world premiere, the museum brings together the largest collection of sandstone formations called “Gogottes” with artworks by the Munich artist Judith Milberg. “This is a unique symbiosis of nature and art,” said the founder of the Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal, Michael Völker at the opening, “this connection creates new forces – and inspirations for the guests of the exhibition.”

The exhibition, curated by the renowned art consultant Mon Muellerschoen, is a lively interplay between the 30 million year old mineral rarities and the work of a contemporary artist. Judith Milberg said: “The Gogottes are sculptures rounded and intertwined from sandstone. It’s unbelievable that nature alone has modeled here. In their dynamics and formal language, I found something that had always occupied me in my artistic work.” Michael John Gorman, founding director of the Biotopia Natural History Museum Bavaria, explained: “Too often science and art are separated. Here, both come together. Contrasts create new perspectives and visions.”

THE GOGOTTES and JUDITH MILBERG

Special exhibition 2021/22

The opening

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THE GOGOTTES
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JUDITH MILBERG

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