Matthew Buckingham
dal 6/6/2007 al 18/8/2007
Segnalato da
6/6/2007
Matthew Buckingham
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
The artist's film investigates the question how the Hudson River acquired its name. Filmed from a helicopter following the riverbank from Manhattan to Beacon, its added voice-track recounts the story of the Hudson. Images, texts and biographies are simultaneously the subject-matter of his work and the means by which it achieves its form, while the exhibition leads the viewer to different places and sites in cities and landscapes.
Everything has a name
Matthew Buckingham's work is devoted to the historical enquiry into names and their origin. His film, Muhheakantuck – Everything has a name, investigates the question how the Hudson River acquired its name. Filmed from a helicopter following the riverbank from Manhattan to Beacon, the film's added voice-track recounts the story of the Hudson. Images, texts and biographies are simultaneously the subject-matter of Matthew Buckingham's work and the means by which it achieves its form.
The voyage theme, as the telling of historical facts using symbolic images, is discernable as the leitmotiv of Matthew Buckingham's work. Thus, the exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof leads the viewer to different places and sites in cities and landscapes. The knowledge of what lies behind a name corresponds to images that in a two-fold way suggest the theme of voyage: as a journey to these various places and as a point from which to enter the story of our culture.
Matthew Buckingham was born in Nevada, Iowa in 1963. He lives and works in New York. He has participated with his film works in international group exhibitions since the late 1990s. Comprehensive solo exhibitions have taken place in the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna in 2003 and in the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster in 2005. Until 1 July 2007, Matthew Buckingham's most recent work can be viewed in his solo exhibition “Play the Story” at the Camden Arts Centre London.
An Exhibition by the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD in collaboration with the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
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Opening: June 7th, 2007, 7pm
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstrasse 50-51 - Berlin
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-8pm, Sunday 11am-6pm