Wolfgang Staehle
dal 5/9/2001 al 6/10/2001
Segnalato da
5/9/2001
Wolfgang Staehle
Postmasters Gallery, New York
For Wolfgang Staehle, widely recognized as a pioneer of the internet art scene, this will be the first solo exhibition in New York in ten years. Staehle was born in Stuttgart, Germany and has been living in New York since 1976, where he worked as a video artist. In 1991 he founded THE THING, an independent media project which began as a bulletin board system (BBS) and became one of the seminal online and offline forums for new media art and theory.
"2001"
An exhibition of new works by Wolfgang Staehle.
For Wolfgang Staehle, widely recognized as a pioneer of the internet
art scene, this will be the first solo exhibition in New York in
ten years. Staehle was born in Stuttgart, Germany and has been
living in New York since 1976, where he worked as a video artist.
In 1991 he founded THE THING, an independent media project which
began as a bulletin board system (BBS) and became one of the seminal
online and offline forums for new media art and theory.
Staehle most recent work explores the dynamics, sensations and
implications of connectivity. The exhibition at Postmasters will
focus on large-scale, real time video projections from locations
around the world.
Effectively transcending technology into a somewhat Warholian update
of the landscape genre, the first of these pieces presented a live
image of the Empire State Building in New York. "Empire 24/7" was
included in the "net_condition" show at ZKM Center in Karlsruhe
in 2000 and in "loans from the nvisible museum" at Yerba Buena
Arts Center in San Francisco.
Staehle's exhibition at Postmasters will consist of three new
web-transmissions: the instantly recognizable television tower
in Berlin, the medival Comburg monastery, and a spectacular
panoramic view of lower Manhattan.
The projections - a visceral experience in synchronicity - offer
an instantaneous compression of time and space.
Non-relative terms like "here" and "now" attain a new meaning
where the literal and the metaphorical converge.
In today's ever-present, frenetic networking of the the globe
as a way of experiencing anything anywhere anytime, Staehle offers
the antidote of a reflective slowdown of beautiful images, close
and far away, static and changing at the same time.
The reception is scheduled for Thursday, September 6, between 6 and 8 pm.
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Wolfgang Staehle, "2001"
Postmasters
West 19th Street & 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
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