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Murals - A group exhibition about wall painting

Lothar Götz was selected for the group exhibition “Murals” curated by Martina Millà Bernad at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (19/02 - 06/06/2010), as a painter working in the tradition of geometric modernist abstraction.

Götz’ wall painting Winterreise occupied one entire room of the exhibition area and covered wall space of 176m2 in total. In this work Götz explores the vision of early Modernist movements and addresses the question of it’s continuing influence on contemporary societies and cultures. His work is informed by real factors of circumstance, site, or the particular inhabitants and histories of a building, space or place, but he mixes these factors with imagined content, extending into fantasy.

The exhibition started with a few deliberate juxtapositions such as that created by placing an example of wall painting tradition of the Soninke Women of West Africa next to Lothar Götz’s geometric colour planes or by establishing a spatial inversion and placing graffiti artists from very different contexts inside the exhibition areas.

“Murals” represented a meeting point for Mural painters of our time. It is a venue with international significance with a specific focus on research into Mural works and a historical tie to wall paintings and the work of Joan Miró. For this exhibition the Foundation invited 10 artists from very different cultural backgrounds and parts of the world. The selection of artists for this overview of contemporary Mural practice was deliberately eclectic and diverse. The idea was to provide a sampling of some of the most influential movements in Wall painting and to show the many forms wall art can take. The exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue giving inside views into research strategies and installation process of each participant.