Leo Kaufmann

Emmanuel Post, Leipzig

20 years of history. The artist's large-scale photographs and sculptures fuse elements from diverse historical backgrounds, blend archaic with modern forms into contemporaneous content, and juxtapose the traditional in technical perfection with dilettante improvisation.

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Galerie Emmanuel Postis is announcing the '20 Jahre HISTORY' exhibition by the Leipzig artist Leo Kaufmann (b. Rostock, 1979) and would like to invite you to the opening reception at 7 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2008.

Is HISTORY, as a developmental process shaping the present, a period of only twenty years? The exhibition title '20 years of HISTORY' ironically alludes to the inextricable conflict between historical experience and its own structure. Leo Kaufmann's large-scale photographs and sculptures fuse elements from diverse historical backgrounds, blend archaic with modern forms into contemporaneous content, and juxtapose the traditional in technical perfection with dilettante improvisation. One of the sculptures oscillates between classical furniture and the IKEA-object. Whether he addresses historical growth or constructs correlations between objects and time, his work manifests the potential of openness in the artistic process of development, allows for plurality and realism in interpretation, and engages the observer in the complexity of aesthetic discourse. Our understanding of the presence of history in the present is as important as the perception of coincidence in our construction of reality.

Image: Untitled (from the series "Gute Besserung") 2005 C-Print 37,8 x 28,0 cm Edition: 5

Emmanuel Post
Windmuhlenstrasse 31b - Leipzig
Admission free

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