Korpys/Loffler
dal 13/9/2012 al 27/10/2012
Segnalato da
13/9/2012
Korpys/Loffler
Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen
In collaboration with Dieter Schmal Geist. This exhibiton attempts to make that fleeting something, for example, time or the aura inherent in things, concrete and sensually perceptible in a different way.
The term Geist (spirit) – meaning either the thinking mind, the spirit of the past or a ghostly essence – designates something intangible, inexplicable and mysterious. This solo-exhibition by Korpys/Löffler, organized in collaboration with Dieter Schmal, attempts to make that fleeting something, for example, time or the aura inherent in things, concrete and sensually perceptible in a different way. For the exhibition Geist they have made a special new work that addresses the history of the Künstlerhaus Bremen and creates a link between the present and the history of art.
Taking a visual approach to the history of the Künstlerhaus Bremen, the artists have intervened in the very substance of the exhibition building, uncovering and temporarily altering past architectural interventions. By shifting a wall that was raised at a later date into the interior of the building they have revealed a row of windows that is normally concealed with the result that the original “face” of the building comes into view again. The, for outsiders, invisible structural intervention becomes visible and the otherwise closed space accessible.
For another section of the exhibition Korpys/Löffler and Dieter Schmal have installed a kind of distillery in which they let unusual ingredients and alcoholic essences ferment. The various materials and objects include significant artefacts from art history, which play an important role not just historically, but also for the artists personally. The exhibition catalogue for the legendary show “When Attitudes become Form”, for example, curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle in Berne in 1969. With that exhibition Szeemann blazed a whole new curatorial trail, creating the type of the free curator. He arranged the exhibits in an exciting dialogue according to a concept of his own to facilitate a new perception of art. Szeemann was the first to present artists’ attitudes and ideas that engaged directly with the social changes taking place in his own time and generation and being expressed in new art forms.
Other things that serve as ingredients are fragments of chocolate busts by Dieter Roth, and the fish typical of Bremen. To create the link to the history of the Künstlerhaus Bremen, the artists have added a further ingredient by taking a piece of wood out of the wall construction in the exhibition space. The architectural frame carries, so to speak, the history of the house and exhibits traces both of the past and of the intervening changes.
As a result of the continuing process of decomposition, aromas emanating from the objects and materials are conserved, their substance, content, history transformed into a fluid state. They alter their appearance, become reduced to their pure essence and are therefore capable of being tasted and smelled. Removed from their original context and form, the objects turn into tastes and exude fragrances of the past.
The solo-exhibition Geist by Korpys/Löffler in collaboration with Dieter Schmal is taking place in the framework of ZWANZIG12 – 20 Years of the Künstlerhaus Bremen. The artist duo from Bremen had a studio in the building from 1998 to 2005. They have been professors at Bremen’s Hochschule der Künste for several years now.
Geist is being sponsored by the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation, the Waldemar Koch Foundation and GUT FÜR BREMEN – the foundation of the Sparkasse Bremen.
photo credit: Korpys/Löffler, When Attiudes Become Form, Schlempe, 13.07.2012,
photo, 2012
Press
Marita Landgraf
Künstlerhaus Bremen
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Opening: 14 September 2012, 7 pm
Kunstlerhaus Bremen
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