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Noemi Smolik on Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake

December 30, 2020 • Noemi Smolik on “Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake” View of “Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake,” 2020–21. Two works attributed as Alexandra Exter’s Kostümentwurf “Herodes,” 1921 and 1917 respectively. WHAT HAPPENS when a painting is unmasked as a forgery? The colors, the forms, and the brushwork remain the same, and yet, everything has changed. The spell of authenticity, related to what Walter Benjamin called an artwork’s “aura,” has broken. A taboo-shattering exhibition organized by Rita Kersting and Petra Mand at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, titled “Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake” and on through February 7, seeks to pick up the pieces, provocatively pairing

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