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Exhibition : Sleepless The Bed in History and Contemporary Art
More than 40 years ago, John Lennon and Yoko Ono got into bed to protest against the war. The world's most popular artist couple of that time made their honeymoon public by stating: "Make love, not war!" Simultaneously, the bed turned into a political instrument of visual art. Due to historic and technical developments to the present day the bed fulfills different purposes: As the territory of birth, love, illness, and death and as the most anthropomorphic shape in the history of all civilizations, the bed follows the circle of life of each individual during all important life phases, with all the differences and varying levels influencing the development of a person within a culture. The exhibition Sleepless. The Bed in History and Contemporary Art is on show from 30 January to 7 June 2015 in the 21er ...
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More than 40 years ago, John Lennon and Yoko Ono got into bed to protest against the war. The world's most popular artist couple of that time made their honeymoon public by stating: "Make love, not war!" Simultaneously, the bed turned into a political instrument of visual art.
Due to historic and technical developments to the present day the bed fulfills different purposes: As the territory of birth, love, illness, and death and as the most anthropomorphic shape in the history of all civilizations, the bed follows the circle of life of each individual during all important life phases, with all the differences and varying levels influencing the development of a person within a culture. The exhibition Sleepless. The Bed in History and Contemporary Art is on show from 30 January to 7 June 2015 in the 21er ...