David Lamelas
07 Jul - 10 Sep 2006
DAVID LAMELAS
July 7 – September 10, 2006
“It is impossible for me to make definitive statements. A piece is defined by the person who looks at it.”*
In his artistic practice, which covers a wide range of media from spatial interventions to films, David Lamelas explores the concept of the artwork and the roles of author and viewer within it. His sculpture- and installation-based works of the 1960s established the fact that the space surrounding the work (that is defined not locally or nationally, but as immaterial) is a constitutive element. Space has no meaning geographically, but solely in terms of an intellectual and transnational position. Rather that contenting himself with a vision of the artist as a political subject or overemphasizing this role, David Lamela creates scope for a process of critical analysis that does without moralizing (of whatever kind). For the Galerie at the Secession, Lamelas will devise a site-specific intervention which temporarily redefines the determinants of the space; this approach is of particular interest since it has traditionally been the Hauptraum and not the other two spaces that is subjected to spatial analysis by artists. For the Grafisches Kabinett—the only exhibition space at the Secession with an outside view—Lamelas will develop a new sound piece.
*From an interview with Lynda Morris, 1972
David Lamelas (*1946) lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.
July 7 – September 10, 2006
“It is impossible for me to make definitive statements. A piece is defined by the person who looks at it.”*
In his artistic practice, which covers a wide range of media from spatial interventions to films, David Lamelas explores the concept of the artwork and the roles of author and viewer within it. His sculpture- and installation-based works of the 1960s established the fact that the space surrounding the work (that is defined not locally or nationally, but as immaterial) is a constitutive element. Space has no meaning geographically, but solely in terms of an intellectual and transnational position. Rather that contenting himself with a vision of the artist as a political subject or overemphasizing this role, David Lamela creates scope for a process of critical analysis that does without moralizing (of whatever kind). For the Galerie at the Secession, Lamelas will devise a site-specific intervention which temporarily redefines the determinants of the space; this approach is of particular interest since it has traditionally been the Hauptraum and not the other two spaces that is subjected to spatial analysis by artists. For the Grafisches Kabinett—the only exhibition space at the Secession with an outside view—Lamelas will develop a new sound piece.
*From an interview with Lynda Morris, 1972
David Lamelas (*1946) lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.