A Short History of Cologne
dal 16/5/2013 al 21/6/2013
Segnalato da
16/5/2013
A Short History of Cologne
Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Julia Scher, Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell. The exhibition features documentary material and new works from three artists working in Germany.
Clench your fists into the smoggy air of L.A. no more! Documentary material
and new works from three artists (one is a writer) working in Germany! A
trio from Köln offers a brief lung transplant into alternate history
factoids! Long lost nights of cruising on the Sunset Strip are only a click
away from these three, at the same time as their strange adjacency in
Germany, on the west coast of the River Rhine.
No taboo lays uncovered between them! Mother loads of indignities are faced!
All three fill and empty the cipher like a threaded needle thru the skin of
time into the Rhineland, not now passed over for other digs.
Frances Scholz's films and paintings easily survive the demise of 90s
Cologne to anti-dazzle with a new kind of plastic infinity! Between silted
rows of color on white, pressed values of spacetime marble like meat onto
crispiest surface. Gushes of LSD, wisps of sound stop and carry the bus
away. Suddenly a hugging machine appears, laying waste to hackneyed ideas of
light painting, furniture, lovers, consolation prizes, animal husbandry and
bondage, etc. in the process.
In the gaps the visual can't cover Dr. von Schlegell's Neo Ficto-criticism
debunks previous time forms with old intelligence and a keen eye for the
forgery of illusions pressed on by contemporary cultural demanders/those in
control of distribution -- including Rheinland museum directors and Berlin
printmeisters! Science fiction on view here.
Julia Scher! Alien commix, landing pad, historical document and welcome
sign. Self-instructor whose faux machismo mixed for Cologne the historical
parables of Scher, Schindler and Schlemiel from the 80s and beyond, is
brought to the table. It was deep into Bush the Second when she wound up
moving for good to Cologne, taking a Professorship at the KHM. Scher hardly
recognized what she saw upon her arrival. The 80s were gone, but now even
the 90s too! Nothing stood between herself and that castle high in the
mountains with runic symbols carved in its floor. Two friends appeared.
Small models of alien landing pads began popping into the digital horizon.
Might they serve as open hole way-outs? The art space, she realized, the l-
void, can be the welcoming place, the feeding area for the newest visitors.
Not just meet and greet -- entire museums might now hotel aliens...
Image: Frances Scholz, Throne (Temple G.), 2013
Aluminum, oak wood, goat leather, foam and rigging
27.5 x 25.5 x 43 inches
Artists Reception | ltd los angeles | Friday | 17 May | 7-9p
Artists Film Screening followed by a conversation with Bennett Simpson | MOCA Grand Avenue | Sunday | 19 May | 3p
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