Hedi Slimane
07 Jan - 18 Feb 2006
Hedi Slimane
7 january - 18 february 2006
Invited by Klaus Biesenbach to spend a year (2000) in residence at the Kunstwerke in Berlin, Hedi Slimane there produced a photographic diary which would give rise to a book published by Steidl/7, and two exhibitions
The work titled "Berlin" which would be exhibited is a three-dimensional installation including photographic projections.
The first exhibition was held at the Kunstwerke in 2004 and then at PS1 in New York that same year. The "Berlin" installation is now partof the collection of the MODAM (Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-duc Jean,Luxembourg). A series of photographs of this project was presented at the Koyanagi Gallery in Tokyo, also in 2004, and then at the Maison de la Photographie in Toulon during the summer of 2005.
The set of works titled "Berlin" focuses on the current Berlin generation, highlighting patterns of behaviour, the character of certain places, expressions of a new freedom, changes in a city where two worlds merge, east and west. It enlightens a new Romanticism inherited from the 19th century, which is inherent to German culture, and its transposition in the present-day world, especially through the central role played by techno music and rock.
The importance of music in the imagination, and its power to crystallize desires and incarnate myth for the generation of the 1970s and 1980s is a phenomenon which Hedi Slimane has brought to the fore. In a way, he reveals the rebirth, in a current form, of that predestined part played by rock music as the vehicle of a desire for renewal, and for the transformation of patterns of social behaviour.
His second book, "Birth of a Cult" (published by Steidl/7) is in a way the narrative, through photography, of the embodiment by a human being (Pete Doherty) of the transgressions of a generation, its questions and its shared romantic fervour, as well as its "mal de siècle".
Photography is one of the media used by Hedi Slimane. At times it takes the form of installations ("Berlin", 2004); recently, the fragmentation of certain photographs has appeared, (Thank you for the Music, Spr ̧th Magers Gallery, Munich, November-December 2006), creating a rhythm and freeing the image of its immediacy, incorporating spaces of time and of unknown.
There are also new works called "Steles", like mirrors without silvering in which snippets of the words of songs are engraved, along with poetry, and shared memory.
The exhibition will be made up of these different works and new three-dimensional works.
© Hedi Slimane, "Sans titre" 2004
Photographie extraite de la serie "Stage"
7 january - 18 february 2006
Invited by Klaus Biesenbach to spend a year (2000) in residence at the Kunstwerke in Berlin, Hedi Slimane there produced a photographic diary which would give rise to a book published by Steidl/7, and two exhibitions
The work titled "Berlin" which would be exhibited is a three-dimensional installation including photographic projections.
The first exhibition was held at the Kunstwerke in 2004 and then at PS1 in New York that same year. The "Berlin" installation is now partof the collection of the MODAM (Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-duc Jean,Luxembourg). A series of photographs of this project was presented at the Koyanagi Gallery in Tokyo, also in 2004, and then at the Maison de la Photographie in Toulon during the summer of 2005.
The set of works titled "Berlin" focuses on the current Berlin generation, highlighting patterns of behaviour, the character of certain places, expressions of a new freedom, changes in a city where two worlds merge, east and west. It enlightens a new Romanticism inherited from the 19th century, which is inherent to German culture, and its transposition in the present-day world, especially through the central role played by techno music and rock.
The importance of music in the imagination, and its power to crystallize desires and incarnate myth for the generation of the 1970s and 1980s is a phenomenon which Hedi Slimane has brought to the fore. In a way, he reveals the rebirth, in a current form, of that predestined part played by rock music as the vehicle of a desire for renewal, and for the transformation of patterns of social behaviour.
His second book, "Birth of a Cult" (published by Steidl/7) is in a way the narrative, through photography, of the embodiment by a human being (Pete Doherty) of the transgressions of a generation, its questions and its shared romantic fervour, as well as its "mal de siècle".
Photography is one of the media used by Hedi Slimane. At times it takes the form of installations ("Berlin", 2004); recently, the fragmentation of certain photographs has appeared, (Thank you for the Music, Spr ̧th Magers Gallery, Munich, November-December 2006), creating a rhythm and freeing the image of its immediacy, incorporating spaces of time and of unknown.
There are also new works called "Steles", like mirrors without silvering in which snippets of the words of songs are engraved, along with poetry, and shared memory.
The exhibition will be made up of these different works and new three-dimensional works.
© Hedi Slimane, "Sans titre" 2004
Photographie extraite de la serie "Stage"