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05.02.2010 - 25.04.2010 The Inner Life of Things
Press preview: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 11 am
Opening: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 7 pm
Egill Sæbjörnsson, Grey Still Life II, 2009; Ausstellungsansicht: Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Ghent
Fotos: © Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Ghent; Courtesy by the artist, i8 Gallery Reykjavik and Grusenmeyer Art Gallery Deurle
Today the representation
or imitation of what is held to be the real world is hardly possible without a
reflection on its constructed character. Yet, at the same time, there exists
furthermore a direct interest in the “Dinghaftigkeit” (a kind of “thingliness”)
that surrounds us. In art it appears as a visual mimesis when elements of the
real world are presented in order to make manifest their being in specific
constellations and things.
With the help of artistic
strategies such as serial procedures, fragmentation, scaling or dissolution,
representations of the natural or “thing” world emerge that often question
their relationship to reality or their own status.
The exhibition “The Inner
Life of Things” takes the concept of mimesis, understood as an imitative
representation of reality, and its role in contemporary artistic productions as
a point of departure.
Nina Canell, "Temporary Encampment (Five Blue Solids)", 2009, (Detail), Electromagnetic devices, gypsum panels, plastic; Foto: Canell & Watkins, Courtesy the artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie
The works and projects by
Nina Canell, Florian Haas, Till Krause, Bettina Lauck, Yoon Jean Lee, Egill
Sæbjörnsson and Andreas Wegner present various methods in the search for the
“inner life of thing”. They show painterly, photographic or filmed effigies of
mundane objects, for example bottles, glasses, balls, stones, mushrooms,
flowers, tools, toys or everyday products.
Adopting diverse
observational and representational approaches, they attempt to draw conclusions
on the being of objects, by way of their forms. They thereby produce something
fundamentally new too: apparently found or artificially created objects reveal
quite unexpected traits through serial photographic analysis and staged or
contextual configurations.
The works brought together
in the exhibition question in exemplary fashion the character of the “real
world” as well as the observer’s relationship to it. In addition to the seven
artistic positions taken, some exhibits from the Sammlung des Museum der Dinge
/ Werkbundarchiv (Berlin) will be on display.
Curator: Holger Kube Ventura
The exhibition "The Inner Life of Things" is kindly supported by:
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