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Number Five: Cities of Gold and Mirrors at on View at the Julia Stoschek Collection

DUSSELDORF.- The Julia Stoschek Collection is presenting selected works in a newly designed exhibition. The show features 44 works by 35 artists in all, including many that have never been shown before, works acquired in the past few years and site-specific spatial interventions. Each work is presented in its own, carefully elaborated setting. Rather than being organised around a single theme, the exhibition picks up on several content strands and reflects current themes in contemporary art. Its title, CITIES OF GOLD AND MIRRORS, taken from a film by Cyprien Gaillard shown in the exhibition is a metaphor for the fact that the pieces on display explore socio-political questions relating to urban development, humankind’s relationship to architecture, and our own personal vanities and desires. The first exhibition area presents artists like Gordon Matta-Clark, Tobias Zielony, Cyprien Gaillard and Francis