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Kriwet
dal 17/2/2011 al 30/4/2011

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Dirk Schewe


approfondimenti

Fer­di­nand Kri­wet



 
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17/2/2011

Kriwet

Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf

Yester'n' today. Ferdinand Kriwet is a pioneer of media art. Already in the 1960s he was creating exhibitions, theatre performances and radio plays examining how overstimulation from the mass media affects. In addition to the first Rundscheiben and Poem Paintings, the show will feature his audio and spoken texts, publications, film and television productions, neon works and mixed-media installations, as well as new pieces and some produced especially for the exhibition.


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In spring 2011, the Kun­sthalle Düssel­dorf will be hold­ing the world's first com­pre­hen­sive so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion of the col­lect­ed works of Fer­di­nand Kri­wet, who was born in Düssel­dorf in 1942. Fer­di­nand Kri­wet is a pi­o­neer of me­dia art.

Al­ready in the 1960s he was cre­at­ing ex­hi­bi­tions, the­atre per­for­mances and ra­dio plays ex­am­in­ing how over­stim­u­la­tion from the mass me­dia af­fects our view­ing habits and analysing the lan­guage of tele­vi­sion, ad­ver­tis­ing and pho­tog­ra­phy. Sim­i­lar to the fine arts, which since the 1950s had been mov­ing fur­ther and fur­ther away from tra­di­tion­al dis­ci­plines such as sculp­ture and paint­ing, post-war lit­er­a­ture was al­so search­ing for new, con­tem­po­rary forms of ex­pres­sion. Kri­wet, whose roots lie in con­crete po­et­ry, de­scribes him­self as a vi­su­al po­et who fo­cus­es on lan­guage. When he was just 19 years old, Cologne pub­lish­ing house Du­Mont Ver­lag pub­lished his first work, Ro­tor. For Kri­wet, lan­guage is as much about im­ages as about words. The texts in his Rund­scheiben (discs), a col­lec­tion of works he pro­duced in the ear­ly 1960s, are am­bigu­ous and in­de­ter­mi­nate and have nei­ther be­gin­nings nor end­ings. With no in­di­ca­tion as to the di­rec­tion the texts should be read in, read­ers were forced to pro­duce mean­ing from the con­tent them­selves. In the years that fol­lowed, Kri­wet's neon let­ter­ing, wall paint­ings and sig­nage in­creas­ing­ly fea­tured in pub­lic spaces. Be­fore he be­gan re­treat­ing from the art world in the late 1980s, he pro­duced sev­er­al ra­dio pro­grammes and de­signed a num­ber of Per­cent for Art pro­jects, in­clud­ing the coat of arms in the state par­lia­ment of North Rhine-West­phalia and a light & text col­umn for a post of­fice in Es­sen. Kri­wet's in­flu­ence on the art mar­ket was nev­er as strong as the ef­fect he ex­ert­ed, and con­tin­ues to ex­ert, on oth­er artists. Over the past five years, how­ev­er, his work has been en­joy­ing re­newed in­ter­est among cu­ra­tors and gallery own­ers and has fea­tured in a va­ri­ety of shows, such as those at Lud­low 38 in New York and BQ in Berlin.

The last time Kri­wet's work was on show in his home town of Düssel­dorf was in 1975 in an ex­hi­bi­tion at the Kun­stvere­in für die Rhein­lande und West­falen and in con­nec­tion with the leg­endary Cream­cheese club. Over 35 years lat­er, the ret­ro­spec­tive ex­hi­bi­tion at the Kun­sthalle Düssel­dorf will of­fer the world's first com­pre­hen­sive overview of the artist's mul­ti­faceted work. In ad­di­tion to the first Rund­scheiben and Po­em Paint­ings, the show will fea­ture his au­dio and spo­ken texts, pub­li­ca­tions, film and tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tions, neon works and mixed-me­dia in­stal­la­tions, as well as new pieces and some pro­duced es­pe­cial­ly for the ex­hi­bi­tion. The Kun­sthalle Düssel­dorf is pre­sent­ing the work of an artist who, right at the start of the mass me­dia's ad­vances in­to our so­ci­ety, was ex­plor­ing the mean­ing of me­dia com­pe­tence and whose work to­day, in the age of the in­ter­net, is more rel­e­vant than ev­er.

The ex­hi­bi­tion will be ac­com­pa­nied by the first pub­li­ca­tion to fea­ture a com­pre­hen­sive overview of Kri­wet's works, with nu­mer­ous colour pic­tures and texts by Sven Beck­stette, Elodie Ev­ers, Gre­gor Jansen, Klaus Schöning, Christoph Ben­Jamin Schulz and many oth­ers.

Image: Walk Talk, 1970, Siebdruck auf PVC 1081,5 x 100 cm. Courtesy: BQ, Berlin

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