Hans-Peter Feldmann
dal 10/4/2012 al 4/6/2012
Segnalato da
10/4/2012
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Serpentine Gallery, London
The exhibition presents seminal works from throughout Feldmann's career, from his influential early photographic series to new works displaying women's handbags. The show also includes examples of his portraiture, a theme that the artist has returned to throughout his career.
A new comprehensive survey exhibition by the artist Hans-Peter Feldmann
presents seminal works from throughout his career, from his influential early
photographic series to new works displaying women’s handbags.
Born in Germany in 1941, Feldmann soon became a key figure in the
Düsseldorf art scene and is a contemporary of Joseph Beuys, Gerhard
Richter and Sigmar Polke. Through his lifelong dedication to collecting,
Feldmann has called attention to the cultural material that surrounds us by
gathering images and everyday objects from disparate sources into
meticulous installations.
Amongst Feldmann’s earliest works are a series of booklets consisting of
photographs of everyday subjects and situations from views of mountains
to aircrafts in the sky to women’s knees. In his latest works the artist has
taken collecting a step further by purchasing a number of women’s
handbags along with their entire contents and displays them in traditional
museum vitrines.
The exhibition also includes examples of his portraiture, a theme that
Feldmann has returned to throughout his career. Whether reproducing a
series of amateur snapshots from a friend’s family album or meticulously
documenting a woman applying her make-up in a series of photographs,
Feldmann uses the genre of portraiture to explore the interior life of the
individual as well as the material world that surrounds them.
Feldmann’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery is his first solo presentation
in a UK public gallery since winning the 2010 HUGO BOSS PRIZE and the
resulting exhibition at Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011). Feldmann has
presented many solo exhibitions internationally, including at Museo Centro
de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010), Arnolfini, Bristol (2007), Museum
Ludwig, Cologne (2003) and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
(1992). His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including
the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2003 and Take Me I’m Yours at the
Serpentine Gallery in 1995.
Hugo Boss
Over the years, support for the contemporary arts has become an established feature of the
HUGO BOSS corporate culture. In more than 16 years of promoting the arts, the company's
efforts have resulted in important partnerships with museums and galleries around the
world and enabled it to accompany unique artists in their creative evolution. For this reason,
we feel particularly privileged to be supporting the Serpentine Gallery and the winner of the
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010 in this exhibition of Hans-Peter Feldmann's works.
TAR
Tar Magazine proudly presents issue 7 with its magnetic cover designed by world famous
artist Hans Peter Feldmann in conjunction with his outstanding exhibition at Serpentine
Gallery in London. TAR magazine is delighted to celebrate and support the Serpentine
Gallery for the opening of Feldmann's exceptional show. Like Feldmann's art TAR is
about the power and the combination of art, ideas, visions and language. We like to imagine
TAR as a home for where different people connect, exchange and transform their ideas
about creativity, innovation and imagination intersecting culture and society at many
different levels of awareness. TAR moves slow and fast, high and low, north and south,
west and east, under and over. TAR is a ground a field where we play and we like to change
the rules of the game.
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For press information, contact:
Tom Coupe, 020 7298 1544, tomc@serpentinegallery.org
Rose Dempsey, 020 7298 1520, rosed@serpentinegallery.org
Opening 11 april
Artist talk Tuesday 24 April 2012
On the occasion of his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, artist Hans-Peter Feldmann talks about his work with the Gallery's Co-Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist at Victoria & Albert Museum.
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens W2 3XA London
Open daily, 10am - 6pm
Admission free