Alex Heim
14 - 16 May 2010
ALEX HEIM
"Nectar"
14.05. – 16.05.2010, Opening 14.05.2010 at 10 am
Hermes und der Pfau is pleased to announce its participation at „No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents“ (curated by Cecilia Alemani, Massimiliano Gioni und Maurizio Cattelan) in London. For the second edition of the festival, which already took place in New York in 2009 on invitation of X-Initiative, Hermes und der Pfau will present the video installation “nectar” by the London-based German artist Alex Heim (*1977) at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
The video installation „nectar“, whose title refers to the loyalty card scheme of a major British supermarket chain, combines recorded images of various English formal gardens – all located in Gloucestershire – and arranged according to strict geometrical principles – with the sounds recorded by Alex Heim in a supermarket check out area. The editing of the images and the different shots derive from the rhythm of bar code scanners and beeps of tills and the clash with the shots of the gardens initially seems to be at random. But the decoupling of image and sound – a typical feature of previous works by Alex Heim – is, in fact, not resulting in an emphasis on the contrast but a complementarity of both spheres based on an aspect of artificiality.
At Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the combination of supermarkets and gardens obtained from Alex Heim’s audio-visual “wild life recordings” are extended by barrier elements that make up a course resembling the geometrical plantation pattern of the gardens in front of the projection screen.
Alex Heim was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1977. He studied at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and at the Goldsmiths College in London. He currently lives and works in London, where his works were recently exhibited at the Cell Project Space (2009). Other exhibitions include doggerfisher in Edinburgh, The Approach and ICA in London (all in 2008), Gallery Karin Günther in Hamburg and Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (both 2007). He will participate at “Yesterday Will Be Better” an exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus this summer. Alex Heim is represented by doggerfisher in Edinburgh and Galerie Karin Günther in Hamburg.
Like in New York, the new edition of „No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents“ offers an opportunity to the most interesting non-commercial project spaces, institutions and organisations of artists around the world, to present themselves with the common objective of international networking and exchange. On the occasion of Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, more than 70 initiatives from all over the world will gather in London to showcase their programmes in the form of exhibitions, performances, screenings and lectures from 14 – 16 May 2010.
No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents
Tate Modern – Turbine Hall
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
United Kingdom
14. & 15. Mai 2010, 10 am – 0 pm
16. Mai 2010, 10 am – 6 pm
www.nosoulforsale.com
"Nectar"
14.05. – 16.05.2010, Opening 14.05.2010 at 10 am
Hermes und der Pfau is pleased to announce its participation at „No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents“ (curated by Cecilia Alemani, Massimiliano Gioni und Maurizio Cattelan) in London. For the second edition of the festival, which already took place in New York in 2009 on invitation of X-Initiative, Hermes und der Pfau will present the video installation “nectar” by the London-based German artist Alex Heim (*1977) at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
The video installation „nectar“, whose title refers to the loyalty card scheme of a major British supermarket chain, combines recorded images of various English formal gardens – all located in Gloucestershire – and arranged according to strict geometrical principles – with the sounds recorded by Alex Heim in a supermarket check out area. The editing of the images and the different shots derive from the rhythm of bar code scanners and beeps of tills and the clash with the shots of the gardens initially seems to be at random. But the decoupling of image and sound – a typical feature of previous works by Alex Heim – is, in fact, not resulting in an emphasis on the contrast but a complementarity of both spheres based on an aspect of artificiality.
At Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the combination of supermarkets and gardens obtained from Alex Heim’s audio-visual “wild life recordings” are extended by barrier elements that make up a course resembling the geometrical plantation pattern of the gardens in front of the projection screen.
Alex Heim was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1977. He studied at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and at the Goldsmiths College in London. He currently lives and works in London, where his works were recently exhibited at the Cell Project Space (2009). Other exhibitions include doggerfisher in Edinburgh, The Approach and ICA in London (all in 2008), Gallery Karin Günther in Hamburg and Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (both 2007). He will participate at “Yesterday Will Be Better” an exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus this summer. Alex Heim is represented by doggerfisher in Edinburgh and Galerie Karin Günther in Hamburg.
Like in New York, the new edition of „No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents“ offers an opportunity to the most interesting non-commercial project spaces, institutions and organisations of artists around the world, to present themselves with the common objective of international networking and exchange. On the occasion of Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, more than 70 initiatives from all over the world will gather in London to showcase their programmes in the form of exhibitions, performances, screenings and lectures from 14 – 16 May 2010.
No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents
Tate Modern – Turbine Hall
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
United Kingdom
14. & 15. Mai 2010, 10 am – 0 pm
16. Mai 2010, 10 am – 6 pm
www.nosoulforsale.com