We Fragment, Collect and Narrate
dal 13/2/2014 al 26/4/2014
Segnalato da
Pawel Althamer
Francis Baudevin
Carol Bove
Marcel Broodthaers
Davide Cascio
Jeremy Deller
Diana Dodson
Haris Epaminonda
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Hans Gerber
Ingo Giezendanner
Felix Gmelin
Hella Jongerius
Scott King
Reto Leibundgut
Christian Marclay
Josephine Meckseper
Boris Mikhailov
Claudia Muller
Julia Muller
Sarah Ortmeyer
Man Ray
Gerard Ruhm
Lorenzo Salafia
Giacomo Santiago Rodago
Joachim Schmid
Dominik Stauch
Joelle Tuerlinckx
Monica Ursina Jager
Sayoko Nakahara
Petra Giezendanner
Helen Hirsch
13/2/2014
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate
Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
The focus is a technique that is more than just familiar in our daily lives - collecting, disassembling and reassembling of knowledge, experiences or images. With works from the collections of Frac Nord-Pas de Calais and Kunstmuseum Thun.
The juxtaposition of two collections casts a special light on the selected works of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the Kunstmuseum Thun. The focus of the exhibition is a technique that is more than just familiar in our daily lives – collecting, disassembling and reassembling of knowledge, experiences or images.
We live in a time of fragmentation: all the time we are interrupted in our daily existence by incoming phone calls, SMS, emails, tweets; we are constantly exposed to a flood of partial information of all kinds thanks to the news, advertising or entertainment industry; we constantly google the Internet for information and content. Thus we relentlessly absorb the most varied knowledge, and out of it we derive our explanations and ideologies, our whole personal view of the world. So it is hardly surprising that this procedure plays an important role also in art. Time and again artists disassemble the existing into individual parts and reassemble; time and again they combine thoughts or ideas that have ostensibly nothing in common. Thus they create new meaningful correlations and enable new insights, and also reflect our reality characterised by fragmentation.
With We Fragment, Collect and Narrate the most diverse works from the collections of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the Kunstmuseum Thun are juxtaposed against each other and queried on the current significance of collage, assemblage or montage. The exhibition focuses its attention not only on the physical "cut and paste" but also considers how contemporary art responds to our complex, fast-paced and blind society.
Artists: Pawel Althamer, Francis Baudevin, Carol Bove, Marcel Broodthaers, Davide Cascio, Jeremy Deller, Diana Dodson, Haris Epaminonda, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Gerber, Ingo Giezendanner, Felix Gmelin, Hella Jongerius, Scott King, Reto Leibundgut, Christian Marclay, Josephine Meckseper, Boris Mikhailov, Claudia & Julia Müller, Sarah Ortmeyer, Man Ray, Gerard Ruhm, Lorenzo Salafia, Giacomo Santiago Rodago Joachim Schmid, Dominik Stauch et Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Monica Ursina Jäger
Curated by: Sayoko Nakahara (FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais)
Co-curated by: Petra Giezendanner and Helen Hirsch (Kunstmuseum Thun)
In cooperation with
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais
Image: Pawel Althamer, The Book, 2007 © Pawel Althamer, Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais
Media contact:
Barbara Berger Tel.: +41 (0)33 2258207 barbara.berger@thun.ch
Opening: Friday, 14 February, from 6.30 p.m.
Kunstmuseum Thun
Thunerhof, Hofstettenstr. 14, CH-3602 Thun
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
closed on Mondays
Admission:
Adults CHF 10
Students, apprentices, AHV, IV CHF 8
Children / Adolescents up to age 16 and school classes are free
Groups from 10 persons up 10% discount