Reception "Chris Bleicher - Van Gogh's Night"
Performance & Sunflower Happening in "Forum der Technik", Deutsches Museum (museum in Munich)

July 28, 1998 - the 108th anniversary of Van Gogh's death - the intensive preparations needed more than one year.

Summary of Chris Bleicher's preface of the exhibit catalogue:

"....To rouse, to draw attention to the plight of innumerable collegues I choose as an example Vincent Van Gogh. I don't want to add to the numerous presumptuous "Hommages to Van Gogh" with which unknown artists show off. Rather than reformulating his work in my own interpretation, I want to address brother Van Gogh with solidarity: As a painter he was a superiour example however as a human being he was dependant from material things. This dependency was shameful then and still is today for an artists. As a painter, Van Gogh is an unequalled example, but his human example with his lifelong embarrassing financial dependency should show the persons, responsible for private and public funding that it is profitable to support and protect the contemporary artist.

My special thank-you goes to Dr. Matthias Arnold, art critic, Munich, who was my advisor on the concept of this exhibition. He is one of the world-wide important Van Gogh researchers who for many years published articles and specialiazed books on the Dutch painter. Dr. Arnold wrote the conclusion of the catalogue..."

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