(My private) heroes

(my private) heroes Here, the artistic director of MARTa Herford, Jan Hoet, questions the meaning of heroes in art and in our society. He considers pictures of heroes in art and culture from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Here, he Sets in scene the status of the artist as hero and also the visual culture of heroification throughout different eras and themes. At the same time, this experienced organiser of exhibitions takes a Subjective look at his own “heroes”, the ones who have accompanied him over the last 30 years. To do this, Jan Hoet opens up his box of museum tricks in order to portray these heroes (artists, singers, boxers, writers, film-makers, graphic artists, etc.) and dares to look in a new way at the theme of the hero. This book is thus both a reflection on the art of the past and also on contemporary art. artists Marina Abramovic, Richard Avedon, Hans Arp, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, Günter Brus, James Lee Byars, Lee Bul, Chris Burden, Jean Carriès, Maurizio Cattelan, Rui Chafes, Léon Cogniet, Lovis Corinth, Giorgio de Chirico, Enzo Cucchi, Hanne Darboven, Braco Dimitrijevic. Jimmie Durham, James Ensor, Jan Fabre, Luciano Fabro, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Gilbert & George, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Cai Guo-Quiang, David Hammons, Anton Henning, Rudolf Herz, Ray Johnson, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Paul Klee, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Jef Lambeaux, Markus Lüpertz, René Magritte, Kasimir Malevitch, Jonathan Meese, Viktor Müller, Jean Luc Moulène, Ingrid Mwangi und Robert Hutter, C. O. Paeffgen, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Philippe Ramette, Odilon Redon, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Félicien Rops, Aligi Sassu, Thomas Schütte, Andrea Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Haim Steinbach, Antonina Sofronova, Nancy Spero, Franz von Stuck, Sam Taylor-Wood, Cy Twombly, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Wols, Ossip Zadkine, Jules-Claude Ziegler designer Alessandro Mendini, Robert Wilson photographers Richard Avedon, François-Marie Banier, Anton Brühl, Robert Doisneau, F. C. Gundlach, Barbara Klemm, Benjamin Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, James Nachtwey, August Sander