Jurgen Mayer H.
dal 9/5/2002 al 7/6/2002
Segnalato da
9/5/2002
Jurgen Mayer H.
mullerdechiara, Berlin
Rotversteck' is Mayer H's largest work to date which deals with data protection patterns (DPP). For many years he has been investigating the mechanisms of our information society, specifically the transmission of data. His work in mullerdechiara carrys over and enlarges a familiar procedure of data protection known from school textbooks onto an architectural scale.
Rotversteck
Rotversteck' (Hideout in Red) is Jürgen Mayer H's first solo show in the
gallery müllerdechiara. He also participated, however, in the gallery's
group show Wattage and Friendship.' He taught architecture at Harvard
University (Cambridge/USA) and at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Mayer
H's artwork has been exhibited worldwide, i.e., New York, Berlin, Chicago,
Linz, and the ZKM Karlsruhe.
Rotversteck' is Mayer H's largest work to date which deals with data
protection patterns (DPP). For many years he has been investigating the
mechanisms of our information society, specifically the transmission of
data. The DPP is a maelstrom of numbers, patterns and letters, an overload
of information that obscures the information which lies beneath.
His work in müllerdechiara carrys over and enlarges a familiar procedure of
data protection known from school textbooks onto an architectural scale Â
namely where the solution lies hidden' underneath a red pattern. But here
one finds a reversal: the red film, mounted on the plate glass windows,
allows for an uninhibited view of the solution' Â ROTVERSTECK Â while from
the inside one can recognise only the red obscured DPP pattern. In the view
to the outside, the Volksbühne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, and the PDS (Partei
des Demokratischen Sozialismus) Central Building are tinted red.
Visual transparency plays a central role in modern architecture and society.
That the transparency is more often rhetoric, behind which lies the actual,
is that trick which Mayer H. brings to our attention.
Opening Reception: Friday, May 10, 7 Â 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12:00-7:00 pm
For more information contact: Sönke Magnus Müller or Jeremy Higginbotham
+49-30-390320-40, fax-44
müllerdechiara
Weydinger Strasse 10
Berlin