Temporary Cologne: A group exhibition

Erna Hecey Gallery is delighted to present a serie of works by Eleanor Antin, Marcel Broodthaers, Peter Friedl, and Ryan Gander, specially invited to this occasion. Their respectiv work can be experienced as a focal point inside which various lines of through intersect a multilayered system of meanings and interpretations, creating a large corpus that deals with the logic of critic and potentialities of narration.

Some artists more than others have inspired various generations of artists to develop work involving similar key issues. These influences are visible throught parallels, similar strategies or appropriation. In the case of Marcel Broodthaers, these issues are the fiction, the medium, the anti-théorie, the language, the critique of the institution, the role of the artist, among others. Today, this often ironic play, between art and « non-art », words and significations, fiction and réality can largely be found in contemporary artistic production. There has been also an increased interest in categories which were very central to Broodthaers’s work : system and fictitious system of order (such as the museum, the archive, the collection or the book, the text and the letter).