Location: Germany
According to the legend, an arcane clan of ducks, the ”interDucks“ left their unique collection of artworks behind on Earth when they escaped the planet in 1944. These works now make up the DUCKOMENTA exhibition.
A group of German artists have devoted themselves to research into what happened to the clan, striving to find out where they might now be located in outer space in order to solve the mystery.
The project began in the 1980s, initiated by Prof. Eckhart Bauer as an endeavor undertaken by his students at the Academy of the Arts in Braunschweig/Germany. Students and alumni then continued to pursue these ideas. Today, those responsible for “interDuck“ are still largely, the same artists:
Prof. Eckhart Bauer, Anke Doepner, Prof. Volker Schönwart, Rüdiger Stanko and Ommo Wille.
This concept revolving around a fictive clan of figures and their mysterious collection of art is intended as a means of making art history, even history at large more accessible to audiences, helping visitors to the show start to research themselves, regardless of their cultural background.
45 DUCKOMENTA-exhibitions in five countries (Germany, Austria, France, Holland and Sweden) have been put since 1986 – and it is high time that the rest of the world is learning about this antide view on our cultural heritage!
... in ducks we trust ...
Acrylic on canvas , 1550 x 950 mm
Oil on canvas , 590 x 480 mm
Oil on canvas , 750 x 550 mm
Oil and pastel on cardboard, 910 x 740 mm
Acrylic on canvas , 1500 x 1550 mm
woodcut on cardboard, 387 x 300 mm,
Oil on canvas , 800 x 600 mm
Oil on wood, 600 × 500 mm
Oil and gouache on cardboard, 270 × 300 mm
“Portrait of Albert Duckstein”
Oil on canvas, 350 x 380 mm
Oil on wood, 300 × 400 mm
FRANZ JOSEPH I. (1830–1916), Emperor of Austria
Oil on canvas, 1600 × 1200 mm
Oil on wood, 300 × 400 mm
“The Cherubs of the Sistine Madonna”
Oil on Canvas, 630 x 790 mm
“The Beautiful O’Murphy (around 1750)”
Study on Cardboard, 360 x 430 mm
Limestone and Plaster, 350 mm high
DUCKOMENTA Exhibition at Schloss Neuhardenberg, Germany (2003)
Gilded Plaster, 150 mm high
Oil on Canvas, 550 x 450 mm
“Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)”
Oil and Tempera on Canvas, 1000 x 800 mm
Pen and Ink on Paper, 370 x 240 mm
Oil on Canvas, 700 x 650 mm
“Sissi - Empress of Austria”
“Selfportrait with a Beak”
“Mona Lisa”
“The Scream”
“Drowning Duck”
“Duck with unbraided hair”
“Wanderer in Foggy Seas”
“The Bathers”
“The Alchimist”
“A Sunday Walk”
“Ducks Josephus”
“The Poor Poet”
“Queen Duckfretete”
“DUCKOMENTA Exhibition”
“Laughing Buddha”
“Double Portrait with Hats”
“Anas Mensura Mundi”
“Cowering Duck”
