18/9/2003
Per Huttner
Sub Bau, Goteborg
'Recycling Rejects' investigates rejection both on a human, artistic and consumerist level. The exhibition incorporates photographic and video work by the artist refashioned into a site-specific installation specially designed for the gallery.
Recycling Rejects
Sub Bau is proud to present the first solo exhibition by Per Hüttner.
'Recycling Rejects' investigates rejection both on a human, artistic
and consumerist level. The exhibition incorporates photographic and
video work by the artist refashioned into a site-specific
installation specially designed for the gallery.
In the window of the gallery Hüttner has created an installation
using rejected test prints of various photographic projects. The
majority of the images come from the 'Romanticism Revisited'-series
which depict the artist in positions where he resembles a discarded
commodity. He sandwiches this with repeating the identical image of
himself in a grid over the collage, bringing work by surrealist
painter Magritte to mind.
The installation in the window of the gallery serves both as an
artwork visible to the public 24-7. But it also dims the light in the
space. The artist uses this to show the single-screen installation
'From Her to Eternity'. The video is an ironic take on the classic
scene from 'From Here to Eternity', where a blond Hollywood couple
make out on the beach as the waves roll in. In Hüttner's version, the
artist can be seen mimicking this scene. But the woman has been
replaced by a blow-up doll and occasionally the artist is swept out
of the image by frothy waves.
This irony spills over into a single photograph shown in the gallery.
Here Hüttner can be seen performing a one-man demonstration in
central Paris, holding a blank white placard. The rules of the game
reversed and the ultimate provocation in activism is when you have
nothing to say.
In conjunction with the solo exhibition at Sub Bau Hüttner also shows
work from 'Romanticism Revisited'-series in 'Aletheia - The Real of
Concealment' at Göteborg's Konstmuseum. He is also showing work at
BIDA 2003 in September in Salamanca, Spain
Per Hüttner divides his time between a solo photography-based
practice that investigates notions of pleasure and pain and their
position within our media saturated society; and curatorial projects
- the latter often involving a degree of intervention on the part of
others. He is the editor for the book 'Curatorial Mutiny', which was
recently published.
Per Hüttner's recent exhibitions and projects include: Kontainer, Los
Angeles (solo, 2003); 'Fadren', Platform, Vasa, Finland (solo, 2002);
'Slowdive', Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
(2002) '3 in 1', Nylon Gallery, London (2001); '¦all we need is a
preacher and a motel¦', La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (2001). Per
Hüttner was co-founder and co-director of Konstakuten, an artist-run
space in Stockholm from 1996-2001, and was founder-director of The
Hood Gallery, Los Angeles (2002-2003)
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