LOCATION SHOTS
curatorRaimar
Stange
Oystein Aasan, Isabelle Cornaro, Sylvia Henrich, Olivier Millagou,
Ivan Moudov, Riccardo Previdi, Christine Würmell, Franz Ackermann,
Pierre Bismuth,
Michel Majerus, Olaf Nicolai, Manfred Pernice,
Martha Rosler, Daniel Buren,
Lawrence Weiner
17 February - 1 April 2006
Prolongation until 08.04
Erna Hécey Gallery
is pleased to present the exhibition Location
Shots curated by German critic
and independent curator Raimar Stange.
In Location
Shots the broad thematic of
"urbanism, nature, landscape" is subject to artistic reflection.
Questions regarding the artificiality of nature, the construction
of landscapes, and the power structures that regulate urban
life are taken up and treated by a group of artists from three
different generations. The work of seven young artists—Øystein
Aasan, Isabelle Cornaro, Sylvia Henrich, Olivier Millagou, Ivan
Moudov, Ricardo Previdi, and Christine Würmell —is "cross-read"
by works of artists from a middle and older generation: Franz Ackermann,
Michel Majerus, Olaf Nicolai, Pierre Bismuth, and Manfred Pernice,
with works of Martha Rosler, Daniel Buren, and Lawrence Wiener
pars pro toto under consideration.
This aesthetic
constellation demonstrates how the venerable question of landscape
as a constructed phenomenon—what Karl Marx already referred
to as "second nature"—is, in our times of increasing
environmental destruction, thematized anew with an explicitly
political orientation. Today the problem of constructed nature
penetrates into evermore domains of life, such as leisure
time and tourism, along with youth culture and social organization
in general. Civilization destroys nature, which then in turn
attempts to emulate the very nature that has been displaced.
The artists presented
here all work in the post-Pop neo-conceptual tradition, which
generally speaking privileges critical reflection and experimentation
over aesthetic pleasure. This accounts for the wide range
of media in the show, including drawing, photography, text,
installation, sound, light, and print. The artists' differing
approaches to city life highlight a number of common themes,
from the problem of "who owns the city" and the resignification
and remapping of urban geographies by graffiti artists and
skateboarders, to the confusion of natural and artifical spaces
and questions concerning the city's representation. In addressing
these themes, Location
Shots shows how contemporary
art engages with and builds upon the reflections on urbanism
made by prior artworks.
image ©: Playtime 1967, Jacques Tati. www.tativille.com |
press release
exhibition views
Franz Ackermann
Pierre Bismuth
Daniel Buren
Isabelle Cornaro
Sylvia Henrich
Michel Majerus
Olivier Millagou
Ivan Moudov
Olaf Nicolai
Oystein Aasan
Manfred Pernice
Riccardo Previdi
Martha Rosler
Lawrence Weiner
Christine Würmell
Raimar Stange
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