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HAMBURG.- Trompe-l’œil is distinguished not just by its realism – after all, still life, perspective painting and photography can all claim to be realistic – but by its wit. In the best trompe-l’œil the artist deliberately sets out to trick you, and then lets you know you have been tricked. The exhibition “Genuine Illusions: The Art of Trompe-l’œil” celebrates the charm, irony and sometimes irreverence of trompe-l’œil, from antiquity to the present day. This is epitomized by the very first work that the visitor will encounter, Pere Borrell del Caso’s painting of a young boy escaping from the rigid confines of a gilded frame. The major international exhibition “Genuine Illusions: Masterpieces of trompe-l’œil” from antiquity to the present at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, from
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