Right Brain Problems
20 - 23 Apr 2013
Stuart Sherman: "The Eleventh Spectacle (The Erotic)", 1978. Photo: Babette Mangolte. Courtesy of the artist and Broadway 1602, New York
Stuart Sherman: "The Eleventh Spectacle (The Erotic)", 1978. Photo: Babette Mangolte. Courtesy of the artist and Broadway 1602, New York
The group exhibition "Right Brain Problems" links the first European, institutional solo exhibition of Stuart Sherman with contemporary artists who are connected to his work in various ways.
The American performer and filmmaker Stuart Sherman (1945-2001) was part of an exclusive scene of avant-garde artists, theater performers and filmmakers in New York. He presented his art, small-scale, obsessive and headstrong, mostly in places beyond the art establishment.
An important part of his artistic oeuvre is his short performances called “Spectacles”. During these performances, he set up everyday objects in new constellations on a camping table and thereby opened references to genres like comedy, magic, musicals, minimalism, surrealism, fluxus and opera. Though small in presentation, Sherman discussed in the Spectacles extensive topics like time, language, eroticism and identity. With "Right Brain Problems" the Heidelberger Kunstverein shows for the first time in Germany an overview of the cinematic and performative works of Sherman, as well as a comprehensive selection of his paintings.
Alongside Sherman's works, the Heidelberger Kunstverein will host creations by Serge Baghdassarians and Boris Baltschun (1972/1974), Christine Lemke (1967), Babette Mangolte (1941), Anahita Razmi (1981) and Olivier Toulemonde (1972), who either worked together with Sherman (Babette Mangolte) or whose works reference Sherman's methods, humor or his self-understanding as an artist.
Concept: Susanne Weiß and Lena Ziese
The American performer and filmmaker Stuart Sherman (1945-2001) was part of an exclusive scene of avant-garde artists, theater performers and filmmakers in New York. He presented his art, small-scale, obsessive and headstrong, mostly in places beyond the art establishment.
An important part of his artistic oeuvre is his short performances called “Spectacles”. During these performances, he set up everyday objects in new constellations on a camping table and thereby opened references to genres like comedy, magic, musicals, minimalism, surrealism, fluxus and opera. Though small in presentation, Sherman discussed in the Spectacles extensive topics like time, language, eroticism and identity. With "Right Brain Problems" the Heidelberger Kunstverein shows for the first time in Germany an overview of the cinematic and performative works of Sherman, as well as a comprehensive selection of his paintings.
Alongside Sherman's works, the Heidelberger Kunstverein will host creations by Serge Baghdassarians and Boris Baltschun (1972/1974), Christine Lemke (1967), Babette Mangolte (1941), Anahita Razmi (1981) and Olivier Toulemonde (1972), who either worked together with Sherman (Babette Mangolte) or whose works reference Sherman's methods, humor or his self-understanding as an artist.
Concept: Susanne Weiß and Lena Ziese