Peter Land
21 Apr - 20 May 2012
© Peter Land
Springtime, 2010
Painted fiberglass, fabric, metal, wood and rubble, variable dimensions variable
Courtesy Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Springtime, 2010
Painted fiberglass, fabric, metal, wood and rubble, variable dimensions variable
Courtesy Galleri Nicolai Wallner
PETER LAND
SpringTime
curated by Elodie Evers
21 April – 20 May, 2012
A two-facedness oscillating between tragedy and comedy traverses the entire oeuvre of Peter Land (*1966). While his works provoke laughter at first sight, they are revealed upon closer examination to be insufferable transgressions in the realm of “normality.” Land
gained recognition in the mid 1990s with his simply produced videos – documentations of personal failure and grotesque meaninglessness in which the artist is seen tumbling down an endless flight of stair, repeatedly falling off a ladder while painting or crashing to the floor while doing a drunken striptease to catchy disco hits. The Kunsthalle presents a selection of Land’s early films and recent
installations in a parcour reminiscent of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland: Different-sized doors that lead nowhere, doorknobs that do not work, and the eponymous piece “Springtime,” which comprises a pile of debris from which an arm protrudes. The boundaries between children’s games and nightmares are fluid in Peter Land’s work.
A total of 100 multiples from the edition “The Other Option” by Peter Land can be purchased on the occasion of the exhibition.
SpringTime
curated by Elodie Evers
21 April – 20 May, 2012
A two-facedness oscillating between tragedy and comedy traverses the entire oeuvre of Peter Land (*1966). While his works provoke laughter at first sight, they are revealed upon closer examination to be insufferable transgressions in the realm of “normality.” Land
gained recognition in the mid 1990s with his simply produced videos – documentations of personal failure and grotesque meaninglessness in which the artist is seen tumbling down an endless flight of stair, repeatedly falling off a ladder while painting or crashing to the floor while doing a drunken striptease to catchy disco hits. The Kunsthalle presents a selection of Land’s early films and recent
installations in a parcour reminiscent of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland: Different-sized doors that lead nowhere, doorknobs that do not work, and the eponymous piece “Springtime,” which comprises a pile of debris from which an arm protrudes. The boundaries between children’s games and nightmares are fluid in Peter Land’s work.
A total of 100 multiples from the edition “The Other Option” by Peter Land can be purchased on the occasion of the exhibition.