Überwensch (sic!): Ulrich Gebert / Fabian Reimann
Opening: in AMERIKA on Friday, January 12th at 6 p.m
Ulrich Gebert and Fabian Reimann present new works from 01/12 - 02/17/2007.
The exhibition title could be seen as a typing mistake, an inadvertency that can happen in daily business. However, it is rather a flaw in the concept and the conscious attempt to immediately contain and to restore it to normal modes of thinking by an ordering formula: "Überwensch (sic!)" holds the idea of human hubris and discloses its inherent constructiveness and hence its vulnerability.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 2) 2007, 5 c-prints, framed, different sizes,137 x 150 cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 3) 2007, 5 c-prints, framed, different sizes, 150 x 127 cm cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 5) 2007, 5 c-prints, framed, different sizes, 150 x 127 cm cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 1) 2007, 5 c-prints, framed, different sizes,137 x 150 cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 4) 2007, 6 c-prints, framed, different sizes,137 x 150 cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 2) 2007, 5 c-prints, framed, different sizes,137 x 150 cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 3) 2007, 5 c-prints, framed, different sizes, 150 x 127 cm cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
- Ulrich Gebert, Soft Land (Tableau 5) 2007, 5 c-prints, framed, different sizes, 150 x 127 cm cm,edition 3 + 1 a.p.
Ulrich Gebert
Soft Land (Tableau 2) 2007
5 C-Prints, framed, different sizes
137 x 150 cm
Edition 3 + 1 a.p.
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In the tableaux of his work Soft Land Ulrich Gebert traces this concept by taking up the well-known connection between the act of taking photographs and hunting. He creates a symbolic logic of the images that recalls the clichéd depiction of "hunter and prey". At the core of all those images lies a visual demonstration of power: nature as the item of research is examined by means of camera and notepad – one collects, draws comparisons and assumptions, scans and classifies. Soft Land takes the peripheral characters to the center in order to group them around an imaginary focus – an implied tree.
- Fabian Reimann, Krupke, 2007, wood, lacquer, 260 x 160 x 150 cm
- Fabian Reimann, Krupke, 2007, wood, lacquer 260 x 160 x 150 cm, detail
- Fabian Reimann, hookers (Fat B.), 2007, wood, plastic, 75 x 59 x 58
- Fabian Reimann, hookers (blitz hor.), 2007, wood, plastic, 53 x 165 x 50 cm
- Fabian Reimann, hookers (Love B.), 2007, wood, plastic, 125,5 x 31 x 36 cm
Fabian Reimann
Krupke 2007
Holz, Lack
260 x 160 x 150 cm
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Fabian Reimann’s sculpture Krupke – the bludgeon tree – consists of wedged "riot sticks". Standing on one club, different instruments of physical domination pile up. They all seem to be ready to move at any time just in order to transform the moment of still perseverance into dissonant acts of violence! Also in his second sculptural group – the hookers – everyday objects like hanger and broomstick develop an enormous energy hardly according to their original design: coated in white plastic paint they get out of control and court in their wrench for the attention of the spectator.
P.S.: the gallery will participate at the ARTE Fiera in Bologna, Italy from 01/25 - 01/29/2007. We would be happy to welcome you at our booth 92 A in hall AF 22!