home, home again
24 Nov 2006 - 28 Jan 2017
Franz Ackermann , Kleine Rundreise, 2006
ithography, mixed technique ,53,5 x 70,5 cm
© Franz Ackermann
ithography, mixed technique ,53,5 x 70,5 cm
© Franz Ackermann
HOME, HOME AGAIN
23 gespenster
24 November 2006 – 28 January 2007
The kestnergesellschaft is presenting a new, space-encompassing installation by Franz Ackermann. The artist, who was born in 1963, can already look back on a rapidly developing career. His work, which includes drawing, painting, photography and installations and has been in the public eye since the middle of the 1990s, has in the meantime become well-known on the international level.
Travel constitutes a fundamental experiential aspect of Franz Ackermann’s oeuvre. The “Mental Maps” which are thereby generated in the form of small-scale works on paper serve as the subjective exploration of an unfamiliar world and as the basis for Ackermann’s painting, into which they are transferred as scattered projections. With his intense orientation towards the Pop aesthetic, Ackermann makes use therein of ornamental or floral visual elements, mixed with architectural set pieces.
Ever since 1997, the artist has developed out of his works on paper and his paintings space-encompassing installations, often combined with wall paintings and complemented by photographs, advertising posters from the tourist industry or newspaper articles, along with mirroring surfaces and sculptural insertions. Arising out of this conglomeration of diverse materials are spatial panoramas with extensive contents.
Ackermann’s aesthetically complex installations take up the suggestion offered by the media concerning experience of the world and give resolute expression to its problematic, such as the explosive growth of urban centers or globalization. They demonstrate in a vivid manner that actual space is destroyed by its simulation through the media, and in this way they prove themselves to be thoroughly critical visions of the future. They contain blunt confrontations of a spatial, political and visual nature which invite both observation and reflection.
23 gespenster
24 November 2006 – 28 January 2007
The kestnergesellschaft is presenting a new, space-encompassing installation by Franz Ackermann. The artist, who was born in 1963, can already look back on a rapidly developing career. His work, which includes drawing, painting, photography and installations and has been in the public eye since the middle of the 1990s, has in the meantime become well-known on the international level.
Travel constitutes a fundamental experiential aspect of Franz Ackermann’s oeuvre. The “Mental Maps” which are thereby generated in the form of small-scale works on paper serve as the subjective exploration of an unfamiliar world and as the basis for Ackermann’s painting, into which they are transferred as scattered projections. With his intense orientation towards the Pop aesthetic, Ackermann makes use therein of ornamental or floral visual elements, mixed with architectural set pieces.
Ever since 1997, the artist has developed out of his works on paper and his paintings space-encompassing installations, often combined with wall paintings and complemented by photographs, advertising posters from the tourist industry or newspaper articles, along with mirroring surfaces and sculptural insertions. Arising out of this conglomeration of diverse materials are spatial panoramas with extensive contents.
Ackermann’s aesthetically complex installations take up the suggestion offered by the media concerning experience of the world and give resolute expression to its problematic, such as the explosive growth of urban centers or globalization. They demonstrate in a vivid manner that actual space is destroyed by its simulation through the media, and in this way they prove themselves to be thoroughly critical visions of the future. They contain blunt confrontations of a spatial, political and visual nature which invite both observation and reflection.