Hans-Peter Feldmann
19 Jun - 22 Aug 2010
HANS-PETER FELDMANN
"An Art Exhibition"
19 June - 22 August 2010
Opening: June 18th, 2010 at 7 pm
Since the 1970s, Hans-Peter Feldmann (* 1941) has been collecting, archiving, and arranging everyday objects and photographs found in photo albums and newspapers and taken by himself. Seemingly banal, whimsical motifs compose his colourful repertoire. He takes pictures of shoes, sunsets, women's knees, and portraits out of their original context, reassembling them in accordance with preset criteria. Presented in series, they point to a world behind what they portray and construct stories that catalyse both collective and personal memories. They hence offer the viewer opportunities for individual identification.
Owing to the omnipresence of reproductions, Feldmann's authorship is not to the fore; he neither signs not limits editions of his works. Feldmann's own version of appropriation art is thus consistent with a democratic attitude towards visual art, which knows no distinction between amateur and professional, private and public, other and own. In the view of the artist, pictures belong to everyone.
The show, curated by Gregor Jansen and Elodie Evers, is Hans-Peter Feldmann's first major solo exhibition in his home town. The Kunsthalle shows photographs, installations, sculptures, and books from the past four decades, included Schattenspiel (Shadow Play) (2002).
"An Art Exhibition"
19 June - 22 August 2010
Opening: June 18th, 2010 at 7 pm
Since the 1970s, Hans-Peter Feldmann (* 1941) has been collecting, archiving, and arranging everyday objects and photographs found in photo albums and newspapers and taken by himself. Seemingly banal, whimsical motifs compose his colourful repertoire. He takes pictures of shoes, sunsets, women's knees, and portraits out of their original context, reassembling them in accordance with preset criteria. Presented in series, they point to a world behind what they portray and construct stories that catalyse both collective and personal memories. They hence offer the viewer opportunities for individual identification.
Owing to the omnipresence of reproductions, Feldmann's authorship is not to the fore; he neither signs not limits editions of his works. Feldmann's own version of appropriation art is thus consistent with a democratic attitude towards visual art, which knows no distinction between amateur and professional, private and public, other and own. In the view of the artist, pictures belong to everyone.
The show, curated by Gregor Jansen and Elodie Evers, is Hans-Peter Feldmann's first major solo exhibition in his home town. The Kunsthalle shows photographs, installations, sculptures, and books from the past four decades, included Schattenspiel (Shadow Play) (2002).