PETER FRIEDL
22 september - 10 december 2005
Playgrounds 22 September – 15 October
Drawings 20 October – 16 November
Theory of Justice 19 November – 10 December
  
Three consecutive presentations show long-term projects
such as Playgrounds (since
1995), Drawings (since
1964) and Theory of Justice
(since 1992) questioning issues of genre, documentary aesthetics
and other forms of narratives. Reconsidering the exhibition
as a medium, each of the three projects will use the gallery
space to display specific concepts and meanings.
Playgrounds is a series
of projected images showing children's playgrounds from around
the world. The playground is viewed as the stage for the first
institutionalized, public experiences of "small" subjects.
Drawings is part of a
substantial collection of the artist's drawings from 1964 to
the present which have rarely or never been shown. The chronological
presentation investigates the genre of the retrospective as
well as the subject of artistic production.
Theory of Justice is
an archive of newspaper pictures. The title refers to A Theory
of Justice (1971) by John Rawls, a liberal revival of
social contract theory. Friedl's archive proposes a new sort
of pictorial justice in relation to originality, history and
context.
This is the third solo exhibition of Peter Friedl (b. 1960) at Erna Hécey Gallery.
Friedl's work has been exhibited worldwide including documenta
X (1997), the 48th Venice Biennale, the 3rd Berlin Biennial,
and solo exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1995),
Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1998), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,
Berlin (1999), Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz
(1999), The Living Art Museum in Reykjavík (1999), Casino Luxembourg,
Luxembourg (2001), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2001), Institut
d'art contemporain, Lyon-Villeurbanne (2002), Institute for
Contemporary Art, Cape Town (2002), Gesellschaft für Aktuelle
Kunst, Bremen (2002).
Recent solo projects include Four
or Five Roses (2001-2004), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
am Main, and Out of the Shadows
(2004), Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.
A retrospective exhibition of the artist will be held at the MACBA in Barcelona from May to September, 2006.
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