Peter Friedl
dal 9/10/2014 al 31/1/2015
Segnalato da
9/10/2014
Peter Friedl
Centre d'art contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme
The Diaries. Since his early beginnings, writing and drawing have been core activities of his artistic practice. For the first time, all of the artist's handwritten diaries from 1981 to 2014 will be on view.
The centre d’art contemporain – la synagogue de Delme is pleased to present the solo
exhibition
The Diaries
by Peter Friedl. Since his early beginnings, writing and drawing —
in the broadest sense — have been core activities of Friedl’s artistic practice, in which
critical intimacy, displacement, political awareness, conceptual transfers, and new models of
narration play an important role. For the first time, all of the artist’s handwritten diaries
from 1981 to 2014 will be on view in Delme.
More than three hundred closed notebooks are displayed in piles within specially designed
museum showcases. As is often the case with Friedl’s projects, juxtaposition and overexposure
are the exhibition’s very dynamics. In fact,
The Diaries
is an epic staging of real time,
memory, volume, and text on paper. Thousands upon thousands of densely filled pages covering
a period of over thirty years testify to the impossibility of capturing bare life in words.
Like Friedl’s other long-term projects such as
Playgrounds
(since 1995) and
Theory of Justice
(1992–2010) — both based on documentary photographic images — his diary installation is a
study in narration and is open to change.
As private books and authentic documents authored equally by professional writers and
amateurs, diaries sit ambivalently on the threshold of literature and history. Their
centuries-long tradition has given rise to many ways of constructing, documenting and revoking
subjectivity. By blocking access to the contents of his enshrined, closed diaries, Peter
Friedl invites the viewer to contemplate the multi-layered meaning of how aesthetic experience
and imagination work. In an era of open access and ubiquitous surveillance, overabundant
communication and information, the artist’s “real allegory” takes on critically new
importance. It questions the power of display and imagination, the drama of form and content
as well as the fragility of autonomy.
The Diaries
plays with notions of the anachronistic, precarious, and unfinished. Yet Friedl’s
installation subverts the myth of immediacy in order to offer an alternative composed of
withdrawal, silence, and introspection. Simple, mundane activities such as reading and writing
become tools and aids for potential resistance and emancipation.
As a visual prologue to the diary project, the exhibition will include a selection of Friedl’s
own childhood drawings from the 1960s. Like the notebooks, the authenticating medium of the
drawing can be experienced as a piece of material culture.
Peter Friedl (born 1960) is an artist who lives in Berlin.
His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MoMA PS1, New York; Van
Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Hamburger Kunsthalle. He has participated in documenta X (1997) and
documenta 12 (2007), the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), the 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary
Art (2004), the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville (2006), Manifesta 7,
Trento (2008), the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), the 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008), La
Triennale, Paris (2012), the Taipei Biennial (2012), and the 12th São Paolo Architecture
Biennale (2013).
Press contact:
Pierre Viellard +33(0)3 87014342 communication@cac-synagoguedelme.org
Opening Friday 10 October, 6pm.
Centre d’art contemporain la synagogue de Delme
33 rue Poincaré 57590 Delme
Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday: 2-6pm.
Sunday: 11am-6pm.
Free entrance.