JOSEPH KOSUTH – INSOMNIA: ASSORTED, ILLUMINATED

Posted on 2013-06-03

Featuring work dating from 1965 through to today, ‘Insomnia: assorted, illuminated, fixed .’ will for the first time offer an extensive overview of the artist’s work in neon. This chronicals a nearly 50
year-long investigation of the production and role of language and meaning within art, and an on-going use of neon, a material appropriated in the 1960’s first by Kosuth who considered it a form of ‘public writing’, without fine art associations, and traditionally associated with popular culture.

The exhibition will feature 26 of Kosuth’s neon works, showcasing key early compositions including one of the artist’s first neons Five Fives (to Donald Judd) [orange], (1965), alongside recent works such as elements from his Beckett series (2011). Constructed in a way that actively responds to the gallery’s specific architectural space, the colourful retrospective will be installed across the length of the top floor of the gallery, utilising some never before used areas for display purposes.

An important pioneer of Conceptual Art, Kosuth is credited with initiating appropriation strategies, language based works and the use of photography in the 1960’s. The artist’s investigations into language and perception, and the appropriated use of literature, philosophy as well as psychology characteristically take the form of works in series, a practice that allows capacity for play and reflexivity in direction.

Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2013

Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178
Berlin

www.spruethmagers.com

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HANS-PETER FELDMANN

Posted on 2013-06-03

The focus of the exhibition is put on pictures stemming from different sources, mainly 19th and early 20th century paintings. In his Dreiergruppen (triads) Feldmann arranges three images of different traditional subject-matters and techniques.

Each viewer may perceive and interpret these constellations in his or her own way. Thus images of clearly defined theme and content are integrated in a network of open and complex relationships.
Feldmann continuously ties his work to the history of image production and its entire cultural spectrum, from fine art to mass production, from children’s books to photography and postcards. He is interested in which images are popular, held in esteem and collected by people at any given time. By way of painterly interventions he creates a new, contemporary context: red noses, crossed eyes and black eyes add a strikingly modern and humorous accent to the dusty and solemn images. Feldmann brings the stiff and conventional portraits back to life.


Exhibition runs through to June 22nd, 2013

Johnen Gallery
Marienstr. 10
10117
Berlin
Germany

www.johnengalerie.de

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