Via Lewandowsky

Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

With his sound-installation Applause the artistevokes the illusion of a grand audience which applauds an invisiblepresentation. Criticism exhausts itself in eulogy and obeisance. Art has beenshrunk to a pretext for a social occasion and suffices as an agreement. Asclaqueurs Lewandowsky chose people from the immediate art set-up: collectors,curators, critics, museum directors and cultural politicians.

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Against the background of the international autumnfairs, Via Lewandowsky (*1963 in Dresden) raises the issue of the expandingrole of art in society. With his sound-installation “Applause” the artistevokes the illusion of a grand audience which applauds an invisiblepresentation. Criticism exhausts itself in eulogy and obeisance. Art has beenshrunk to a pretext for a social occasion and suffices as an agreement. Asclaqueurs Lewandowsky chose people from the immediate art set-up: collectors,curators, critics, museum directors and cultural politicians.

Theinstallation consists of 96 concert loudspeakers. They cover all 11 rooms onthe two levels of Haus am Waldsee. From a central computerised set therecordings of applauding persons are looped one at a time, doubled and playedin varying length, ebbing and rising like a symphony. Lewandowsky condenses the“applause-orchestra” from time to time by assigning one or more persons to aloudspeaker. In the meantime he is repeatedly playing only on single speakersthereby building dialogue sequences, silences or smaller or larger groups.Climactically, thunderous applause by all “participants” fills the entirehouse.

Lewandowskyconsciously defies tradition with regard to the opposition of viewer and workof art. The viewers find themselves in the middle of a technical installation.All speakers, cables and control technology remain visible.

The exhibitionis curated by Dr. Katja Blomberg. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Haus am Waldsee
Argentinische Allee 30 - Berlin
Hours: 11:00 to 18:00

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