Heinz Emigholz
dal 7/12/2007 al 23/2/2008
Segnalato da
7/12/2007
Heinz Emigholz
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
This monographic exhibition constitutes the first comprehensive presentation of the artist's interdisciplinary project 'The Basis of Make-Up'. It comprises over 200 artistically designed notebooks alongside 550 drawings and the film trilogy The Basis of Make-up I, II and III (with a combined length of over 90 minutes).
Since 1974 visual artist and filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has been working on a tableau of some hundreds drawings in which autobiographical elements are interwoven with historical and fictitious events from the 20th century to produce an idiosyncratic imagery. The drawings source from Emigholz’s collage-filled diaries which are also the object of his long-term film project „The Basis of Make-Up“. For the exhibition in Berlin, which includes the first complete presentation of this vast body of work, the series has been expanded to include 550 drawings.
As Heinz Emigholz writes: “’The Basis of Make-Up’ is the nucleus around which my films ‘Ordinary Sentence’, ‘The Basis of Make-Up’ and ‘The Meadow of Things’ revolve. I imagine ‘The Basis of Make-Up’ to be a kind of silent intermezzo or a brief recapitulation between these films.”
This monographic exhibition constitutes the first comprehensive presentation of Emigholz’s interdisciplinary project The Basis of Make-Up. It comprises over 200 artistically designed notebooks alongside 550 drawings and the film trilogy THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP I, II and III (with a combined length of over 90 minutes). The black-and-white presentation designed by Emigholz unites the different media of this major body of work within the space. On the basis of the early notebooks and the drawings translated into photographs, wall drawings, films and carpets, the exhibition offers viewers an impressive insight into the genesis of The Basis of Make-Up in its entirety.
As part of the Berlinale programme, Heinz Emigholz’s new film on the architect Frederick Kiesler, KIESLER’S PROJEKTIONS, will also receive its world premiere within the context of the exhibition.
Image: Heinz Emigholz, Title page of the series of drawings “The Basis of Make-Up”(1974-2007); © Heinz Emigholz 1974
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstrasse 50-51 - Berlin
Hours: Tuesday till Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. · Saturday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. · Sunday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission: Kombi-Ticket 8,- EUR · 4,- EUR (concession)