8/4/2015
Framework 6
insitu, Berlin
With the desire to draw out different threads between the multi-layered practices of these artists, insitu has invited an additional curator to see how shifts of curatorial perspectives can produce different exhibitions.
curated by: An Paenhuysen Nora Mayr, Lauren Reid, Marie Graftieaux and Gilles Neiens
For »Framework 6: parallelisms« insitu presents 2 exhibitions taking place consecutively and both featuring works by three artistic positions: Eli Cortiñas, Ingo Mittelstaedt and Sam Smith.
With the desire to draw out different threads between the multi-layered practices of these artists, insitu has invited an additional curator to see how shifts of curatorial perspectives can produce different exhibitions and ideas while working with the same trio of artists. The first part of the show is curated by An Paenhuysen, followed by the second part curated by insitu’s team consisting of Nora Mayr, Lauren Reid, Marie Graftieaux and Gilles Neiens. Paenhuysen and the insitu team have been working separately on their respective shows, maintaining only a shared blog to generate associative ideas, without telling each other what they will show from the respective artists.
“To Be Continued…”, the first part of »Framework 6: Parallelisms«, is an experiment in literary curating. It is inspired by the conversation that Paenhuysen had with the insitu team via the blog format, where each curator consecutively posted an image that was a response to the preceding one. The chain reaction/cadavre exquis method of this blog turned into a body of visual research on the work of Eli Cortiñas, Ingo Mittelstaedt and Sam Smith. Paenhuysen wrote a text based on this correspondence, which can be read as a loop. She then asked the artists to fill one blank page each by selecting a work that confirms, comments, opposes, ignores, hyper-affirms, or illustrates the text.
The exhibition “To Be Continued…” refers also to insitu’s concept of “Parallelisms”, opening up the possibility for a continuation in the second part. A loop is a continuously repeated segment, whereas a parallelism employs a doubling or repetition while slightly changing the construction and therefore the meaning of the original paralleled concept. Within this Framework, Paenhuysen provides a hint of a challenge to the insitu team – “What happens next?”
Artist Bios
Eli Cortiñas (born 1976 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / Spain)
Eli Cortiñas’ enigmatic video loops, collages and sculptures are typically composed from iconic found footage of 50s and 60s films as well as scenes from art house classics such as Truffaut or Buñuel. By deconstructing and disrupting narration and representation in the original cinematic source, the composite result speaks a new visual language that is penetrated by dream logic and absurdity.
Ingo Mittelstaedt (born 1978 Berlin, Germany)
In an exciting game of art historical references and photographic alienation of aesthetic resolution and material presence, Ingo Mittelstaedt explores in his analogue photographs the potential for abstraction within the medium. Objects of everyday life, nature and art are typically the starting point of his artistic work, which are then re-formed and reframed through staged displacement and perceptual distortion.
Sam Smith (born 1980 Sydney, Australia)
Sam Smith works across sculptural construction and moving image, in an exploration of filmic language and its relationship to object. Intersecting the formal and conceptual frameworks that have previously separated these artistic disciplines he invests film and video with ideas relating to three-dimensional space while expanding object-based work into temporal territory, asking us to rethink sculpture as montage and cinematic editing as object construction.
Image: Ingo Mittelstaedt «RE: (Alexander Rodtschenko, Radiohörer (Porträt der Tochter Warwara))» (2015), courtesy the artist and Galerie koal. Original photo: courtesy of Sprengel Museum Hannover; Right: Sam Smith «Last Year» (2015), reading of a section of the script for L'Année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet, courtesy the artist and 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal. Posters: texts by curator An Paenhuysen.
Opening: Thursday 09.04.2015 18.00 – 21.00
insitu
Kurfürstenstrasse 21-22
10785 Berlin
Opening Hours:
WED. – FRI. 16.00 – 19.00 / SAT. 14.00 – 18.00