Monday, April 28, 2008
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Marcel Odenbach "Caught while escaping" Plans 1975-1983. Video installations. New drawings 6 April - 8 June 2008 Kunsthalle Bremen Am Wall 207, D - 28195 Bremen Marcel Odenbach: Performance Aachen 1978 (Photo: Anne Gold)
The exhibition and the catalogue concentrate on his Plans from 1975 - 1983; these are fascinating collage sheets with texts and drawings relating to the artist's performances and installations employing video. The Plans will be exhibited and published in their entirety for the first time, whether they were realised or remained concepts. One highlight in this context is the 22-metre-long collage Freeing myself from my thoughts, which combines everyday and personal observations made by the 22-year-old artist with pieces torn from newspapers, and drawings. During a performance in 1976, Marcel Odenbach tore up this strip after he had wrapped himself in it. The collage will be reassembled for the first time for our exhibition, and the full work is reproduced in the catalogue.
At the centre of this exhibition, we are showing one of Odenbach's main works, "Oh, how good that no-one knows" dating from 1999. In this large-format, four-part projection, historical recordings (found footage) from German history are combined with the artist's own new images and then interwoven with his own and cited film images showing past and contemporary Africa. Personal responsibility, emotional proximity and the presence of history are united on four large-format picture surfaces within a single room, and the viewer stands at their centre. Three more prize-winning video tapes illustrate the links between Odenbach's paper Plans and the realised works and offer a vivid insight into the artist's oeuvre. Our survey is completed by four new large-format works on paper.
Kiadók: MTA Művészettörténeti Kutató Intézet - Gondolat Kiadó - 2B Alapítvány - Erdély Miklós Alapítvány, 532 oldal, 210 x 240 mm, kartonált
plus Schuller G oerről a tranziton
ELŐADÁS KOVÁSZNAI GYÖRGY ÉLETMŰVÉRŐL
A Kovásznai Kutatóműhely több mint egy eve dolgozik ezen interdiszciplinaris eletmu osszeallitasan. Az eloadas: bevezeto az eletmu ma aktualis kerdeseibe es vetites Kovasznai filmjeibol. Az eloadast Ivanyi-Bitter Brigitta, a Kovasznai Kutatomuhely vezetoje tartja, 2008 Aprilis 30. de.10h, MKE Intermedia Tanszek
With his unpretentious, comic-like, political, humoristic, and ironic drawings on walls and windows, Dan Perjovschi (born in 1961 in Sibiu/Romania, lives in Bucharest) has definitely made a name for himself in the past few years. Perjovschi, who takes a keen interest in world affairs, is known in Romania also for his politically inspired performances as well as for his journalistic work for Magazine 22, a publication that came into being following the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1987.
With his artistically unique and direct language that is reminiscent of children"s drawings and Art Brut, he comments on international and local events, or on that world in which his works manifest themselves-the art scene. Equipped with a permanent marker or chalk, without having done any preliminary drawings, just with a rough idea about the content of his commentary, the artist arrives at the scene of his creative act. Dan Perjovschi takes an approach that is very specific to the venue and space in question.
For the exhibition "Fair enough" staged at Kunsthaus Baselland, he has devoted his attention to the rows of windows that are a salient feature of the building. Working with daily newspapers, magazines, and an Internet connection to news agencies, the artist produced new drawings on location, and reuse his existing repertoire of drawings with a view to further developing, reinterpreting, or logically complementing adjacent drawings.
Perjovschi"s drawings express vitriolic comments and provide lucid and mordant analyses. They put controversial things in a nutshell, they are polemic and critical at the same time. Most strikingly, they are straightforward, in-your-face, and direct, and they brook no indifference.
Kupcsik Adrián: Felnőttkori önarckép, Liget,
a kiállítást megnyitotta Horányi Attila, 2008. április 24-én, 18 órától, a kiállítás megtekinthető május 22-ig, megnyitó, előtte, még előttébb, ajánló a tranziton
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