Michael Dreyer
22 Dec 2011 - 11 Feb 2012
MICHAEL DREYER
Theorie des Armen Publikums / Towards A Poor Audience
22 December, 2011 - 11 February, 2012
Hermes und der Pfau is pleased to announce the exhibition “Theorie des Armen Publikums / Towards a Poor Audience” of the Stuttgart based artist Michael Dreyer.
Debates about the viewer and about constructions of the public in art and in art business are seized in this exhibition. Based on different artistic media and forms – picture, collage, sculpture, plinth, display – Michael Dreyer devised a “theory” of the viewer in the shape of various objects and pictures – and in the context of motifs of the “Poor Theatre” by the Polish director Jerzy Grotowsky, the “Living Theatre”, the late work of the Stuttgart-based sculptor Alfred Lörcher and specific visual concepts of Pop Culture. Here, the notorious standards of “participation”, “promotion”, “context” and "emancipation of the viewer” (Jacques Rancière) are, however picked up, while at the same time reaching beyond respectively slurring over these very issues by playing with the idea of an audience that recaptures a post-participatory self-will.
Michael Dreyer was born in Coburg in 1953 and is a professor at Merz Akademie Stuttgart since 1982. Solo exhibitions include “Triple Negation – Double Props #I, WE NOW INTERRUPT FOR A COMMERCIAL” at Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (2011), “Pianistin, eine Aufnahme ‘elektronischer Klänge’ von Stockhausen anhörend” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2006) and “Abschaffung von Prügelsprache” at Grazer Kunstverein, at Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin and Filmwinter Stuttgart (2004/2005). In addition, his work has been shown in group exhibitions such as “Bild und Träger – und ein Pfeiler aus Sanssouci” at BKV Potsdam (2011), “White Albums” at W.O. Scheibemuseum, Stuttgart (2010), “Palindrom. Oben und unten mit Rex Whistler & Friends” at Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart (2009), “Kommando Giotto Bandoni” at Galleria Giò Marconi, Milan (2007) and “Shandyismus, Autorenschaft als Genre” at Secession, Vienna and at Kunsthaus Dresden (2006). Michael Dreyer lives and works in Stuttgart, where he runs the exhibition space W.O. Scheibemuseum. He is represented by Aanant & Zoo, Berlin.
Theorie des Armen Publikums / Towards A Poor Audience
22 December, 2011 - 11 February, 2012
Hermes und der Pfau is pleased to announce the exhibition “Theorie des Armen Publikums / Towards a Poor Audience” of the Stuttgart based artist Michael Dreyer.
Debates about the viewer and about constructions of the public in art and in art business are seized in this exhibition. Based on different artistic media and forms – picture, collage, sculpture, plinth, display – Michael Dreyer devised a “theory” of the viewer in the shape of various objects and pictures – and in the context of motifs of the “Poor Theatre” by the Polish director Jerzy Grotowsky, the “Living Theatre”, the late work of the Stuttgart-based sculptor Alfred Lörcher and specific visual concepts of Pop Culture. Here, the notorious standards of “participation”, “promotion”, “context” and "emancipation of the viewer” (Jacques Rancière) are, however picked up, while at the same time reaching beyond respectively slurring over these very issues by playing with the idea of an audience that recaptures a post-participatory self-will.
Michael Dreyer was born in Coburg in 1953 and is a professor at Merz Akademie Stuttgart since 1982. Solo exhibitions include “Triple Negation – Double Props #I, WE NOW INTERRUPT FOR A COMMERCIAL” at Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (2011), “Pianistin, eine Aufnahme ‘elektronischer Klänge’ von Stockhausen anhörend” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2006) and “Abschaffung von Prügelsprache” at Grazer Kunstverein, at Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin and Filmwinter Stuttgart (2004/2005). In addition, his work has been shown in group exhibitions such as “Bild und Träger – und ein Pfeiler aus Sanssouci” at BKV Potsdam (2011), “White Albums” at W.O. Scheibemuseum, Stuttgart (2010), “Palindrom. Oben und unten mit Rex Whistler & Friends” at Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart (2009), “Kommando Giotto Bandoni” at Galleria Giò Marconi, Milan (2007) and “Shandyismus, Autorenschaft als Genre” at Secession, Vienna and at Kunsthaus Dresden (2006). Michael Dreyer lives and works in Stuttgart, where he runs the exhibition space W.O. Scheibemuseum. He is represented by Aanant & Zoo, Berlin.