Hans-Peter Feldmann
17 Mar - 31 May 2015
HANS-PETER FELDMANN
Paintings
17 March - 31 May 2015
By means of simple and subtle modifications of older paintings, the German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann sets the images free – in the sense of free of history, of their sublimity, and free of their originating social context, and thereby invite us to meet and think the artworks anew.
Feldmann’s art can in fact be described as political, but at the same time plays very subtly with artistic conventions and the expectations we have of the encounter with art, not least in a museum.
Paintings is not an exhibition of the artist’s own brushwork, but older paintings created by other artists, which he then applies very simple changes to. Feldmann (b. 1941) has always worked with existing images: cuttings, his own and others’ photographs and artworks.
His working method is thereby characterized by squinting, obscuring, turning upside down and short-circuiting, not only in the works – but for Feldman preferably also in a wider sense. His is deeply concerned with what kind of images and thoughts our encounter with the artworks give rise to in us.
Exhibited in Louisiana’s Old Villa, the works merge cheerfully with the ‘Danish Golden Age’ atmosphere of the building, while at the same time they impact on us and challenge us in the here and now.
HANS-PETER FELDMANN
Hans-Peter Feldmann studied painting at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz in Austria in the 1960s. From 1968 and on he began to make reproducible art works like artists’ books and photographs. Eventually, Feldmann became an important figure in the conceptual art milieu of the 1970s and has developed his artistic ouvre in various ways – now including his modifications of paintings.
Feldmann has exhibited at the Venice Biennial (2003, 2006), Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2010) and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2011).
Paintings
17 March - 31 May 2015
By means of simple and subtle modifications of older paintings, the German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann sets the images free – in the sense of free of history, of their sublimity, and free of their originating social context, and thereby invite us to meet and think the artworks anew.
Feldmann’s art can in fact be described as political, but at the same time plays very subtly with artistic conventions and the expectations we have of the encounter with art, not least in a museum.
Paintings is not an exhibition of the artist’s own brushwork, but older paintings created by other artists, which he then applies very simple changes to. Feldmann (b. 1941) has always worked with existing images: cuttings, his own and others’ photographs and artworks.
His working method is thereby characterized by squinting, obscuring, turning upside down and short-circuiting, not only in the works – but for Feldman preferably also in a wider sense. His is deeply concerned with what kind of images and thoughts our encounter with the artworks give rise to in us.
Exhibited in Louisiana’s Old Villa, the works merge cheerfully with the ‘Danish Golden Age’ atmosphere of the building, while at the same time they impact on us and challenge us in the here and now.
HANS-PETER FELDMANN
Hans-Peter Feldmann studied painting at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz in Austria in the 1960s. From 1968 and on he began to make reproducible art works like artists’ books and photographs. Eventually, Feldmann became an important figure in the conceptual art milieu of the 1970s and has developed his artistic ouvre in various ways – now including his modifications of paintings.
Feldmann has exhibited at the Venice Biennial (2003, 2006), Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2010) and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2011).