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There is no term commonly used in art history that might
be applied to Jorge Queiroz’ works. His often large-format
artworks on paper integrate different materials, and they are
neither sketch-like preparation for later work, nor do they represent
self-contained artistic products in themselves. The fifty new
works that he is showing at the Künstlerhaus are thus pointers
to an artist’s book that he is producing at present, without
simply being preparatory sketches – at the same time, however,
the book is only one of several components, and subordinate to
the overall project. In this way, Queiroz rejects traditional
interpretations and narrative structures, and the viewer’s
imagination is granted a free rein by the composite beings - oscillating
somewhere between man, animal and plant - that he is occasionally
able to discern in the artist’s drawings.
Jorge Queiroz: Studio 3, 8th – 24th
October 2004 (Opening:
Thursday, 7th October 2004, from 7 p.m.)
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In Studio 2 of the Künst-
lerhaus, Evanthia Tsantila is projecting her highly subjective
adaptation of a classic of film history. She has transposed Ingmar
Bergman’s “The Silence“ (1962) into her own
video version – composed as a series of excerpts - and into
a group of large-format drawings that lend a new autonomy to the
artistic-cinematic image. The brush and ink drawings can only
be truly grasped after more exact observation and from a certain
distance, and they thus follow up one of the artist’s fundamental
interests – an analysis of the relationship between the
art object and its reception.
Having started out as a painter, early on in her artistic career
Tsantila had already begun to concern herself with the different
media outside the field of fine art and to transform pictorial
objects from one medium into another. Most recently, her Biennial
installation also questioned the recipient’s expectations
of a con-
ventional, self-contained exhibition space by confronting him
with an entirely immaterial light installation.
Evanthia Tsantila: Studio 2, 8th –
24th October 2004 (Opening: Thursday, 7th October 2004, from 7
p.m.)
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"Men in Black"
is an art-theoretical analysis in the form of a handbook published
by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In over 100 statements, more than
30 essays and with illustrations by Peter Friedl, this book gives
a survey of curatorial discussion during the last ten years. Its
592 pages explain the changing role of those who create exhibitions,
examine perspectives for the future and relate attempts to break
out of conventions, all from a range of perspectives. [view]
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Another new publi-
cation in autumn 2004 has been produced by the Swiss duo of artists
RELAX. It not only represents a critical appraisal of the changeable
history of the Künstlerhaus, but has also developed into a
reader on the history of Kreuzberg. [view]
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