In today's recurring realism the focus
above all is on the human image and the question of its coordinates. The works
making up the exhibition NACHGEMACHT/DUPLICATED on the other hand are
starting out from the environment and are dealing with the image at the interface
between the 'artificial' and the 'natural.' This dichotomy, operating along the
questions of illusion, virtuality, the dream and the awakening, has always been one
of the central concerns to modern artistic production. The artistic game unfolding
in these inter-spaces ultimately also touches on the sphere of psychological
structures and refers to concepts like the real, simulation or imagination.
Songül Boyraz-Höll contributes photographic works in which urban vistas are
interrupted by cut flowers wrapped in plastic foil. As in her video projects the
artist thus attempts to approach space as a social realm. The flowers do not fit
into the spatial scene but - artificially - create a distance.
Emilie Halpern's works are about a pinning down in time of natural and
artificial structures. In a basic sense the natural often seems the more transient
while the artificial pretends to be eternal. Halpern's photographs and videos blend
these levels and frequently radiate a sort of uncanny romanticism.
With his photographs and video installations Florian Pumhösl on his part
follows up a concept of modernism under the most diverse contextual conditions, be
it from a historical or a spatial point of view. Among other things the project
investigates the conditions of form and content a western modernist language was
subjected to when being transplanted to colonial Africa.
The works by Dean Sameshima on show portray landscapes situated in the wrong
locations, as it were, and thus emanating their own form of fiction. Such as, for
instance, photographs of snowscapes on a Hollywood boulevard, set-like suggesting
pure nature. Another time we are confronted with the desolate and deserted landscape
of the grounds of a zoo.
The film-maker and installation artist Bruce Yonemoto examines the
materiality of film and its contents within art world conditions. At the same time
his projects also have a thing or two to say on the medium itself. The utopia of a
cultural coherence of modernism is being scrutinized with the help of fragments from
the specific language of the 'other.'
On show will be works by:
Songül Boyraz-Höll, Emilie Halpern, Florian Pumhösl, Dean Sameshima,
Bruce Yonemoto.
Curator: Martin Prinzhorn
sponsored by:
Der Kunstraum Innsbruck, Verein zur Ausstellung aktueller Kunst, wird unterstützt von Stadt Innsbruck, Land
Tirol, Bundeskanzleramt Sektion Kunst, Tourismusverband Innsbruck und seine Feriendörfer und für das BesucherInnenservice vom Land
Tirol. Der Kunstraum Innsbruck ist Ö1-Club-Partner.
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