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PETER FRIEDL
Theory of Justice: 1992-2006
A new artist’s book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006
at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain (26 May - 03 September 2006).
Design collaboration by Peter Friedl, Andreas Pawlik, and Juliane Sonntag
224 pages, 20 x 14,8 cm, 1000 exemplars
ISBN: 848977126X
Produced and published by MACBA, Barcelona -www.macba.es
and Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels - www.ernahecey.com
Distributed by ACTAR D, Barcelona - office@actar-d.com
As the art of observation, every theory draws a picture of the world. But what happens when the pictures themselves want to become theory? What is, or what achieves pictorial justice? The title of Peter Friedl’s project, which was exhibited last year at Galerie Erna Hécey, refers to the attempt at renewing social contract theory undertaken by the American philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002). A Theory of Justice (1971) and the subsequent restatement Justice as Fairness (2001) are classic examples of a political liberalism that believes in a well-ordered society as a system of cooperation and in the all-embracing consensus of its members.
If it is true that the contemporary global drama is one of expulsion and exclusion, then justice and distribution theories are out of touch with reality. In grasping the logic of the political as opposition to the dispositifs of administration, of police repression, and institutional regulation, conflict takes the place of consensus: politics as resistance by those social actors for whom no voice is foreseen. The question: “Can the Subaltern speak?“ includes the questions of potential (speaking) pictures for this conflict. The site of these new pictures of history can be found between visibility and discourse.
Friedl’s project, Theory of Justice, is based on the collection (since 1992) and selection of newspaper and magazine images. The chronology of what is depicted (rather than the date of publication) provides a presentation and organizing principle for the newspaper cuttings, which stem from diverse sources.
The exhibition Peter Friedl: Work 1964-2006 will travel to Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
(11 January-8 April 2007), and later to MAC - Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille.
A catalogue (368 pages) is published featuring a large selection of the artist’s writings, along with essays by Mieke Bal, Roger M. Buergel, Norman M. Klein, and Bartomeu Mari, and a conversation with Jean-Pierre Rehm.
Peter Friedl has taken part in documenta X, the 48th Venice Biennial, and the 3rd Berlin Biennial. He has held solo exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1995); the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1998); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin (1999); Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz (1999); Living Art Museum in Reykjavík (1999); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2001); Casino Luxembourg (2001); Institut d’art contemporain in Villeurbanne-Lyon (2002); Institute for Contemporary Art, Cape Town (2002); Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen (2002), and Frankfurter Kunstverein (2004). His most recent solo projects took place at Witte de With, center for contemporary art, in Rotterdam (2004) and Galerie Erna Hécey in Brussels (2005).
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