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2/2/2011

Jens Semjan & Bernhard Lermann

Traversee, Munich

It exists for five until eight million years. The history of human being. As a scientific discipline, Anthropology was invented in the 15th century. As autobiography, it is also imprinted on our faces in the form of wrinkles. The concept artists Jens Semjan und Bernhard Lermann explain our world now with the help of twenty chronicles and ask: Is history a cyclical phenomenon? Through which time units are economy and society considering? How are brands outlasting their inventors? Why is the politicians’ awareness of history that underdeveloped?

Semjan and Lermann gather their data from public accessible sources and create significant chronicles in the fields of politics, law, economy, banking houses, medicine, natural sciences and history of brands and luxury goods. They extract the relevant facts from a tremendous data-mass with the precision of a surgeon to row them into timelines. Referring to US-artist Mark Lombardi, they dissect complex temporal phenomena and cycles and transform them into dramaturgical graphs. Unseen cycles, connections and developments become simple and clear at a glance. This point of view offers us perceptions on our old world and makes history become conceptual art and vice versa.

Jens Semjan, born 1979, former Master student with American concept artist Joseph Kosuth, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He lives and works in Munich.
Bernhard Lermann, born 1971, worked as editor-in-chief for Condé Nast and from 1992 on as author for different media. Currently, he does freelance work as Marketing- and Public Relations-adviser. He lives and works in Munich.

Next: Performing the document, group exhibition curated by Anna Schneider
Opening: March 24, 2011, 7 – 9 pm

Opening: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 7 to 9 pm
Artist talk: February 24, 2011, 7 pm

Traversée zeitgenössische Kunst e.K.
Theresienstraße 56b, München
Hours: Tue-Fri 11-19, Sat 11-16
free admission

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