Horse & Sparrow
Neuer Essener Kunstverein•Jun 13, 2026 — Aug 23, 2026
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Since the Invisible Hand, no image has shaped economic theory more powerfully than that of the trickle-down effect, according to which prosperity trickles down from the top. It is this economic metaphor that the exhibition “Horse & Sparrow” takes as its starting point, as it draws striking parallels with current aesthetic strategies, such that one might speak of trickle-down aesthetics. However, the exhibition refers to it’s tongue-in-cheek nickname of the horse-and-sparrow theory, for, as the US economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in his memoirs, ‘if you give a horse enough oats, some will inevitably fall onto the street to feed the sparrows.’
Put simply, the works brought together in the exhibition “Horse & Sparrow” have abandoned a rigid concept of the artwork and the object in favour of a diffuse, fluid aesthetic. In sculptural terms, in particular, this aesthetic loosely draws on the concept of ‘anti-form’ coined by Robert Morris, without, however, being subsumed by it. In…
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Horse & Sparrow
Neuer Essener Kunstverein•Jun 13, 2026 — Aug 23, 2026
Press Release
Since the Invisible Hand, no image has shaped economic theory more powerfully than that of the trickle-down effect, according to which prosperity trickles down from the top. It is this economic metaphor that the exhibition “Horse & Sparrow” takes as its starting point, as it draws striking parallels with current aesthetic strategies, such that one might speak of trickle-down aesthetics. However, the exhibition refers to it’s tongue-in-cheek nickname of the horse-and-sparrow theory, for, as the US economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in his memoirs, ‘if you give a horse enough oats, some will inevitably fall onto the street to feed the sparrows.’
Put simply, the works brought together in the exhibition “Horse & Sparrow” have abandoned a rigid concept of the artwork and the object in favour of a diffuse, fluid aesthetic. In sculptural terms, in particular, this aesthetic loosely draws on the concept of ‘anti-form’ coined by Robert Morris, without, however, being subsumed by it. In…
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