Peter Roehr
dal 27/11/2009 al 6/3/2010
Segnalato da
27/11/2009
Peter Roehr
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt
Artist's formal repertory is deliberately reduced to the selection of an object, the definition of the number of its repetitions, and their arrangement. The exhibition illustrates that Roehr's strict formalism is much more complex and eloquent than it seems to be at first glance.
Curated by Dr. Martin Engler (Städel Museum) and Dr. Andreas Bee (Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main)
When the Frankfurt artist Peter Roehr died in 1968 at the young age of 23, he left behind several hundreds of works in which he pursued exclusively the idea of serial repetition. From found commonplace materials he created ever new montages of photographs, text, typography, objects, sound, and film probing the concept of redundancy. Roehr abstained from both making a statement and sticking to an individual style.
His formal repertory is deliberately reduced to the selection of an object, the definition of the number of its repetitions, and their arrangement. The element used is still recognizable, although it becomes absorbed in the series, so that the original form and color scheme are subjected to a potentiating effect. Last year, the Städelsche Museums-Verein was able to acquire the artist’s ten Schwarze Tafeln (Black Panels) for the museum, a central work in which the method of a non-narrative serial arrangement of identical objects culminates.
Now that four decades have lapsed, the commonplace nature of Roehr’s works pushes to the fore even more vehemently. They become amazingly enhanced and turn into narrative formulations oscillating between ready-made and seriality, pop and minimal art, everyday life and abstraction. The exhibition Peter Roehr illustrates that Roehr’s strict formalism is much more complex and eloquent than it seems to be at first glance.
The exhibition will be organized by the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, in cooperation with the MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
Catalogue
bilingual: german-english 184 pages, 114 colour illustrations 24 x 30 cm 24,90 Euro
Image: Untitled (FO-116), 1965 (Detail)
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