On June 12, everything revolves around Rubens. In his PIN-sponsored project “Case Studies on Rubens”, artist Slawomir Elsner (*1976) will be devoting himself to a masterpiece of Flemish Baroque, Peter Paul Rubens' Honeysuckle Bower. The touching and famous painting from the Alte Pinakothek collection shows the painter with his fiancée Isabella Brant in a scene of intimate union - a self-confident and demonstrative assertion of an ideal bourgeois relationship between equal partners in a pre-bourgeois society, as the press release from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung states.

Slawomir Elsner (*1976) turns his attention to this historical masterpiece in order to question it artistically before our eyes. In his suite of 12 life-size drawings, which he created especially for the exhibition, he poses questions about the relevance and meaning of the original. In his drawings, he goes so far as to allow the motif to flicker before our eyes in individual studies as a visual memory between image and likeness or to challenge our perception and memory in finely hatched color fields.
In an age of image overload, Elsner's works encourage us to think about which works of art remain in our personal collection of images and how they influence our understanding of the world. We invite you to ask yourself: What remains in our memory after a visit to a museum and how do images live on in us? 

At the same time, another exhibition of the Graphic Collection will open. It is entitled CAREERS BY DESIGN. HENDRICK GOLTZIUS & PETER PAUL RUBENS. 

The opening will take place on Wednesday, June 12, at 7 p.m.