Peter Geschwind
dal 4/4/2002 al 11/5/2002
Segnalato da
4/4/2002
Peter Geschwind
Mogadishni Cph, Copenhagen
In this exhibition the new video piece 'Sound Cut' (2002) will be on display, as well as a series of objects. The video 'Sound Cut' consists of short sequences of everyday activities that generates different sounds, like a slamming door or a vacuum cleaner, recorded in the Iaspis flat in Berlin.
The leisure club MOGADISHNI invites you to the opening reception of 'New
Works'by Peter Geschwind (represented by the leisure club MOGADISHNI)
It is a great pleasure to present the exhibition 'New Works' by Peter
Geschwind (b. 1966 in Sweden, Stockholm, lives and works in Berlin and
Stockholm).
In this exhibition the new video piece "Sound Cut" (2002) will be on
display, as well as a series of objects. The video "Sound Cut" consists of
short sequences of everyday activities that generates different sounds, like
a slamming door or a vacuum cleaner, recorded in the IASPIS flat in Berlin.
The footage is then edited primarily from the sound by making a grid
structure where "frames per second" is treated like "bits per minute". The
result is reminiscent of some kind of mtv-poltergeist-psychosis.
Peter Geschwind`s at once entertaining and disturbing objects and
installations are based on 'do it yourself' aesthetics and could hardly be
conceivable without the western consumption and brandname culture. His work
is often composed of widely different things like clothes, household objects
and discarded furniture; they also contain elements of machinery, children`s
playthings and folk art. Combined, they almost look as if they belong in a
children`s programme that has misfired.
What at first glance seems playful or funny in Geschwind`s work is soon
revealed as not only violent but sometimes even psychotic. In the colourful
'Merry-Go-Round' (1994), constructed from an old table and a dilapidated
parasol, simple plaster figures slam against the poles of the
merry-go-round. The series of works for the Moderna Museet Projekt (1998),
including among others the mobile pieces of junk in "Moving Trash" (1997),
where he has mounted crumbled soda pop cans, empty candy wrappers and entire
sacks of rubbish on radio-controlled wheels, also show close contacts with
American popular culture, not the least in horror b-films.
Peter Geschwind has just participated in 'FAIR' in London. After 'New Works'
in MOGADISHNI, he will exhibit at Maze Gallery, Turino, and Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin.
Opening reception: April 5th 2002 7-11pm
Wed thru fri 12-5pm
sat 12-3pm
The leisure club MOGADISHNI Artillerivej 40 house 9 stair b floor 4 DK 2300
Copenhagen tel +45 32543535 fax +45 32543545