Kendell Geers 1988-2012
dal 30/1/2013 al 11/5/2013
Segnalato da
30/1/2013
Kendell Geers 1988-2012
Haus der Kunst, Munich
The artist born in 1968 in South Africa, uses various media such as installation, drawing, video, performance, and photography. His life and work can be divided into two decade-long periods whose trajectories and developments are explored in this exhibition.
Kendell Geers, born in 1968 in South Africa, uses various media such as installation, drawing, video, performance, and photography. He gained international recognition through his participation in Documenta 11 (2002) and his active global exhibition activity.
His life and work can be divided into two decade-long periods whose trajectories and developments are explored in this exhibition. The first political phase runs from 1988 to 2000, during which time the artist, a white South African, explored the moral and ethical contradictions of the apartheid system through his practice.
Geers developed a visual vocabulary characterized by provocation as well as humor by using found objects such as barbed wire or glass shards. By appropriating historical events and ideas, he focused on questions of relationship between individual and society. It was in this context that Geers changed his date of birth to May 1968, the start of the student and civil revolution, and joined every political party in the period before South Africa’s first democratic elections, from the extreme right-wing to the Communist party. In this way, he expressed his doubts about the fetishization of party politics.
Initiated by his move to Brussels in 2000, his later European period is now characterized by a more poetic aesthetic. Here, Geers transferred his incendiary practice into a postcolonial and increasingly global context, suggesting more universal themes like terrorism, spirituality, and mortality. As such, the artist’s life and work can be said to constitute a living archive comprised of political events, photographs, letters, and literary texts that serve as a source of inspiration and represent a continuation of his oeuvre.
Image: PrayPlayPreyPay, 2011, Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels
Press contact:
Elena Heitsch and Jacqueline Falk Tel +49 89 21127-115, Fax +49 89 21127-157 presse@hausderkunst.de
Exhibition opening on Thursday, January 31, at 7 pm
Speakers are:
Okwui Enwezor, Director
Clive Kellner, Curator of the exhibition
Kendell Geers
The exhibition has been generously supported by Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg / Cape Town; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
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