This autumn
the Kuenstlerhaus presents five exhibitions which
have a good look at the matter of artistic co-operation.
This series of shows focusses on different approaches
and motivations of co-operations. The invited
projects use several medias of contemporary art
as painting, concept, photography, installation
and
film. For instance, painters (who usually are
keen to define and protect their very personal
style and strategy) discover and enjoy the advantages
of opening out and combining their points of view
and skills. Co-operating is not that unusual for
young art film-makers, possibly it is even essential.
Different from their way of working together on
projects are the effective production communities
of photographers and installation artists.
participating
artists:
Co_op_photography: with the artists
Simone Eberli (*1972 at Altstätten,
CH)
and Andrea Mantel
(*1966 at New Jersey, USA)
The
Anatomy of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
(Jugendliche from Urdorf)
62, 3 x 40,7 cm, 2001
The two Zuerich artists
work together on photography projects with young
people since 2000.
They work from the basis of well-known, quite
used-up and explored paintings of art history.
For example they interpret famous portraits and
re-new them with the help of young boys and girls.
With these quotes they comment our collective
memory and re-animate image recollaction.
The
Journalist Sylvia von Harden
(Rahel Biri)
120 x 155 cm, 2002
Joseph
Roulin, sitting at a table
(Andreas Gerber)
130 x 161 cm , 2002
The
killed Marat
(Mirco Marcella)
98 x 127 cm, 2003
"We take pictures
of people, because they resemble historical
persons we do not know and will never meet.
In the scenes we try to accept the artificial
as far as there is something new, something
human from the actual person opposite to us."
(Eberli + Mantel)
The
project "Tableaux vivants" by Eberli
+ Mantel is the cometition's application of the
Kuenstlerhauses Dortmund for this year's award
"Jugendkulturpreis NRW". www.jugendkulturpreis.de
