Two exhibitions
dal 15/9/2007 al 9/11/2007
Segnalato da
15/9/2007
Two exhibitions
Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig
Lutz-Rainer Muller & Jan Freuchen: "Objet perdu". Originally named Objet Trouvet (found object), the installation went through a deconstruction as the artists chopped it into smaller pieces with each of them working as an autonomous sculpture. William Lamson: "Sublunar", a series of photographic and video works as well as an installation.
Gallery 1
Lutz-Rainer Müller & Jan Freuchen OBJET PERDU
In 2006 Lutz-Rainer Müller and Jan Freuchen exhibited an almost 1:1 wooden replica of The Eagle, the lunar module that landed on the moon in 1969. The replica also had a over- sized copy of a grand piano attached to its body. Originally named Objet Trouvet (found object), the installation went through a deconstruction as Freuchen and Müller chopped it into smaller pieces with each of them working as an autonomous sculpture.
They were dropped in a rustic private swamp-property to form a grotesque sculpture park called "Basdorf Research Center".
In the summer of 2007 it was decided to take the pieces of the sculpture back out of the swamps and to show them in the solo exhibition "Objet Perdu".
In their attempt to recreate their initial project the artists deal with modernisms own relationship to the crisis of representation.
The exhibition will consist of all the, partly reconstructed, fragments found in the swamp and will also include other sets of reference and source material from the project.
Gallery 2 and Video Room
William Lamson SUBLUNAR
"The pursuit of flight, no matter how flawed or hopeless the attempt, places the amateur in the heroic position of trying to transcend his place on earth. This project investigates the flight endeavor as it represents the desire to escape earth and the hope of surpassing human limitation."
- William Lamson, 2007
The exhibition will consist of a series of photographic and video works as well as an installation.
Each work documents the attempt -and failure- of the artist to escape earth as a metaphor for the human impulse to surpass natural given limitations.
Image: William Lamson, Monument Valley Flight Attempt (Video Still), 2006, 2 minutes 41 seconds, Ed. of 5
Opening:
Saturday, September 15th, 2007, 11 AM - 9 PM, and
Sunday, September 16th, 2007, 11 AM - 6 PM
Part of the "Rundgang" of the Spinnerei Galleries
PIEROGI Brooklyn Leipzig
Leipzig: Spinnereistr. 7/PF514, Halle 10,
Leipzig (Plagwitz), Germany 04179
Noon to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment