The Graphic Art Collection of the Tyrolean State Museums has the world’s largest collection of Tyrolean Baroque drawings. As part of the “Ferdinandeum on the Move” programme, these Baroque gems – for example by Paul Troger or Simon Benedikt Faistenberger – are on display in the Innsbruck City Archive/City Museum.
The drawings were mostly functional working sketches in preparation for complex projects, such as ceiling frescoes, altarpieces or stage sets. Today they are regarded as high-calibre masterpieces. The title “World Unfolding” refers to the fold, a central stylistic element of the Baroque period. Folds make visible how reality reveals itself to us: diverse, nothing is finally decided, everything is in flux – art for today.
The show is dedicated to these works of art full of folds and also dares to take a look at the mountain world, in whose folds the baroque interplay of forces of concealment and revelation continues.
Welcoming address:
Lukas Morscher
Head of City Archive/City Museum Innsbruck
Andreas Rudigier
Director of the Tyrolean State Museums
Georg Willi
Deputy Mayor of Innsbruck
Anton Mattle
Governor of Tyrol
Introduction:
Ralf Bormann
Head of the Graphic Collection of the Tyrolean State Museums
and curator of the exhibition