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4/4/2002

Rene Zeh

Kapinos Galerie, Berlin

Galerie Kapinos is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Duesseldorf based artist René Zeh and would like to invite you to a reception for the artist on Friday, 5th April 2002, from 7pm - 9pm.

The exhibition presents sculptural and photographic works.

Tobias Berger on the recent work of René Zeh:
Rome or Rio, sex or Bratwurst, surfboard or artwork. Questions that oscillate between art and life determine the work of the Duesseldorf artist René Zeh. Several elements repeatedly crop up along the way.

Transporters: with which you can beam yourself to the place in the world of your choice. As quick as a package deal to the caribbean can be booked online. Click and away. Black holes serve in this context not as vacuums of space, but rather as an interface between stations. René Zeh's transporters remind us of the provisional accomodation of the nomadic homeless, decorated with the city maps of the capitals of the world.

City maps: available in every bookshop for every large city in the world.Each city with a different pattern but otherwise the same: Churches marked with a cross, rivers in blue and important buildings in red. On paper it's all the same. Mountains and valleys are as infrequent as noise, dirt and slums. You think you'll be able to handle it all, orient yourself. But things get serious when reality comes out of two dimensionality... by then it's usually too late though, and your fold up map will never fold up properly again.

Travel: package tour adventure in the caribbean, shopping in New York, a quick weekend away to the Sydney Biennale. Travel is no longer a luxurious tour of discovery, it's a nerve-wracking, ostentatious, prestige-enhancing performance. Everything is possible, and because everything is possible as much as possible has to be brought along. Like a cold buffet at christmas.

New York? Tokyo? Paris. Information becomes omnipresent. You can dial up to check the weather at home from any place in the world, with GPS I always know exactly where I am, and with UMTS I am able to be reached worldwide. Information explodes and simultaneously implodes.

From globalisation to an all encompassing empire. There is no longer a centre, merely centres. We are compelled to fly frequently, spatial and temporal expansion becomes everyday. We move around more and more often in four dimensional space, the interface becomes home. Earlier it was known as 'the means is the end'. Once again art and artists are not trailing behind. Instead they're out in front. Not criticising, but instead projecting this play between art and sociality. More flexible, more innovative, more beautiful. René Zeh's work begins right here.

René Zeh will be participating in the 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius, September 2002. http://www.coa.lt

opening reception for the artist: Friday April 5th, 2002 from 7pm - 9pm

Tue - Sat 1pm - 7 pm

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Next exhibition: Michael Kunze - opening reception for the artist Friday May 17th, 2002

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Kapinos Galerie
Gipsstrasse 3
10119 Berlin - Mitte
Germany
Tel/Fax +49.30. 283 84 755

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