Korpys/Loffler
dal 17/7/2004 al 26/9/2004
Segnalato da
17/7/2004
Korpys/Loffler
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Among sculptors. A comprehensive solo exhibition by artist duo Korpys/Loffler, and presenting their complex, innuendo-rich work of the last 10 years. The focus will be on room installations with drawings, sculptures, videos and photos; several films will also be incorporated.
Among sculptors
In light of current events, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum is showing a comprehensive solo exhibition by artist duo Korpys/Löffler, and presenting their complex, innuendo-rich work of the last 10 years. The focus will be on room installations with drawings, sculptures, videos and photos; several films will also be incorporated.
For over 10 years the research work undertaken by Andree Korpys (born 1966) and Markus Löffler (born 1963) for their projects and films was conducted in social and political domains frequently characterized by special functions and security structures, or which are considered to be historical topographies with a special symbolism.
In their works the artists observe and explore the formal composition of surveillance technology, monitoring systems and prestigious, public buildings. The result is an individual aesthetic, grammatical composition that questions the relationship between art and power, and above all art and violence. No attempt is made to comment, adopt a particular moral position or provide an explanatory gesture.
In the mid-1990s they announced an exhibition with "very bad pictures", which addressed Germany’s concentration camp memorial sites. In a different context they produced an installation that recorded a minutely planned bank robbery. The installation "Sandhaufen" (lit. Heap of Sand) investigates the extraordinary incident that befell artist Theo Sand: he was visited by a couple who ordered a mural from him, then suddenly overpowered him and proceeded to aim a rocket launcher at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office across the street.
Generally speaking, political events such as the state visit by George W. Bush in 2002, provide the starting point for their investigative art, which places the strategy of artistic formal analysis in a new context. The artists weave fictional and biographical threads into their documentary analyses, which serve to further underline contradictions and revelations, and to construct new associations and opinions. Yet which associations have any meaning whatsoever for historical events, and which are to be given priority?
The exhibition also examines issues related to defining one's own position. What means are open to art and artists today to participate in an historical discussion, which the media appears to have replaced? How are historical events coloured by the media's presentation of them?
An accompanying program to the exhibition can be found under "events". An information booklet is in preperation. On the ocasion of the finissage an extensive reader, published by Revolver-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., will be presented.
Curator: Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt
Press conference: 11.30 a.m., Friday, July 16
Opening: 11.30 a.m., Sunday, July 18
Image: Korpys / Löffler
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