PETER FRIEDL
22 september - 10 december 2005
Drawings 20 October
– 16 November
Drawings,
1964-2005 (exhibition view, Brussels)
The second part of Peter Friedl's project trilogy deals with
frames and the drawings within. In contrast to the horizontal
image series of Playgrounds,
there is an explicit verticality here to which the classical
genre of musealizing biography and work in the medium of the
exhibition owes its aesthetic defusal. Legible in strict chronology,
the selection of drawings follows a timeline of four decades.
The first sheet is a child's drawing by the artist from May
1964.
Many of Friedl's well known works are based on drawings and
time shifts: some of his neon installations, such as Neue Straßenverkehrsordnung
(on the origins of history painting from writing, on the example
of the RAF) or Corrupting the
Absolute (on the origins of design); and also the poster
pictures Eishockey, 1968-2000
and Map, 1969-2005.
In contrast to these staged tableaus, the selection and presentation of framed drawings on paper seems to emphasize entirely an engagement with more fragile, unpolished things and their potentialities. Between idea and form there is space for the world and its various different signs.
Drawings instigates
another kind of discussion on the conditions and experiences
of a new politics of aesthetics.
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