Joep van Liefland
27 Apr - 01 Jun 2013
JOEP VAN LIEflAND
Traces
27 April – 1 June 2013
Traces is the second solo exhibition of the Dutch artist Joep van Liefland (* 1966) at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann Berlin.
The exhibition presents new works, silkcreens on canvas, cabinets with videos and video cases and also bronze sculptures.
Joep van Liefland deals with the medium of video.
In times of on-going digitalisation of the media and the extinction of old information carriers, the current exhibition shows a large number of those “traces“ of medial ghosts. Free from nostalgia the artist is working with the haptic present of videotapes that are not representing a film but are put into the artistic focus as an object. Locked in cabinets behind glass or stacked and cast in bronze, the fugacity of the videotape is antagonised and hence consolidated as a memorial in the course of time – similar to a memorial as a trace of history.
Starting with Minimalism, Traces turns into a process of recognition and loss – a direct confrontation with objects that hold not only the artist ‘s fingerprints but also the fading warmth of the touch of previous users.
(Dr. Jennifer Allen, "Digital killed the Video Star", 2013)
Besides his artistic work Joep van Liefland has been operating the Autocenter in Berlin since 2001
Traces
27 April – 1 June 2013
Traces is the second solo exhibition of the Dutch artist Joep van Liefland (* 1966) at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann Berlin.
The exhibition presents new works, silkcreens on canvas, cabinets with videos and video cases and also bronze sculptures.
Joep van Liefland deals with the medium of video.
In times of on-going digitalisation of the media and the extinction of old information carriers, the current exhibition shows a large number of those “traces“ of medial ghosts. Free from nostalgia the artist is working with the haptic present of videotapes that are not representing a film but are put into the artistic focus as an object. Locked in cabinets behind glass or stacked and cast in bronze, the fugacity of the videotape is antagonised and hence consolidated as a memorial in the course of time – similar to a memorial as a trace of history.
Starting with Minimalism, Traces turns into a process of recognition and loss – a direct confrontation with objects that hold not only the artist ‘s fingerprints but also the fading warmth of the touch of previous users.
(Dr. Jennifer Allen, "Digital killed the Video Star", 2013)
Besides his artistic work Joep van Liefland has been operating the Autocenter in Berlin since 2001