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13/4/2005

Peter Land

Fundacio Joan Miro', Barcelona

Hasty Departure

Espai 13

Cycle: Obsessions (zero % standard)

The Joan Miró Foundation presents Hasty Departure, the first solo exhibition in Barcelona by the Danish artist Peter Land, as part of the “Obsessions (zero % standard)” cycle selected by Montse Badia.

The work of Peter Land (Aarhus, Denmark, 1966) is characterised by the repetition of facts, which he then uses to reflect on our existence and to seek a meaning in acts that would seem to be meaningless. In his videos, drawings and installations, he shows himself in grotesque situations – processes that are repeated obsessively and condemned to failure, in a permanent attempt to succeed.

Specifically created for the Espai 13, his installation titled Hasty Departure shows the frozen image of an impossible action that is completely out of control, like a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd film or those absurd surrealist cartoons: a bed disappearing through the roof and a hand holding a suitcase that has fallen open leaving its contents scattered on the ground. A very hasty departure indeed.

A number of small doors invite the viewer to cross the threshold, as in a kind of Alice in Wonderland – another of the artist’s obsessions. Like Lewis Carroll, Land persuades the visitor to enter another dimension, where things may be very different.

In his work, Land becomes both the analyst and the object analysed. He exposes to the viewer his body, his identity, his fears and his doubts in order to demonstrate the dignity and the absurdity of contemporary human beings through the image transmitted, which derives from the codes established by society and the vision created by the media.

This season’s cycle will come to an end in June, but before that several new issues of Francesc Ruiz’s comic Soy Sauce will be appearing. The artist who started off the cycle will therefore be the one to bring it to finish it off.

Opening: Thursday 14 April 2005, at 19:30 h

Fundació Joan Miró
Parc de Montjuïc, s/n
08038 Barcelona

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