Kara Walker
dal 16/5/2002 al 7/7/2002
Segnalato da
16/5/2002
Kara Walker
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin
The works of this artist from Providence, Rhode Island, focus on questions of identity, racism and social injustice. Her historical figures, at first sight apparently unsophisticated, mostly black silhouettes, subtly yet brutally combine episodes from the history of the South with images from Walker's own imagination: ''The silhouette was a near perfect solution to a complex project that I set for myself... to try and uncover the often subtle and uncomfortable ways racism, and racist and sexist stereotypes influence and script our everyday lives.''
Deutsche Bank Collection
The works of this artist from Providence, Rhode Island, focus on questions of identity, racism and social injustice. Her historical figures, at first sight apparently unsophisticated, mostly black silhouettes, subtly yet brutally combine episodes from the history of the South with images from Walker's own imagination: "The silhouette was a near perfect solution to a complex project that I set for myself... to try and uncover the often subtle and uncomfortable ways racism, and racist and sexist stereotypes influence and script our everyday lives."
Walker's decision to work with silhouettes is logical, given the fact that she grew up in the South where this art form is very widespread, a region "where a longing for a romanticised and homogenous 'past'... retains all of its former power in the form of dubious arts... Romance novels, pornographic fantasies, cartoons, antique postcards and collectible figurines."
Kara Walker also uses drawings and prints to create this ambivalent combination of racist, decorative and personal images. The exhibition of her works from the Deutsche Bank Collection embraces all media capable of opening up significant new narrative perspectives.
Curators:
Dr. Ariane Grigoteit and Friedhelm Hütte, Deutsche Bank Collection
Catalogue:
To accompany the exhibition the catalogue "Kara Walker" is in German and English available. Edition No. 19: Kara Walker "The Bush/Skinny/De-boning", 2002;
Opening hours:
daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., thursdays to 10 p.m.
Lunchtime lectures: Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Guided tours on selected themes followed by a small lunch
Thematic tours:
Sundays at 11.30 a.m. Guides on special themes followed by brunch
Press Conference:
Friday, May 10, 2002, 11 a.m.
Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin Unter den Linden 13-15,
Charlottenstraße entrance
Press contacts:
Svenja Simon/Sara Bernshausen 030-202093-14
Following Exhibition:
Gerhard Richter 20. July to 6. October 2002
Image: Untitled, 1994/1995. Deutsche Bank Collection. (c) Brent Sikkema, NYC.
Guggenheim Museum
Unter den Linden 13-15 D-10117
Berlin