Hängung

Regine Müller-Waldeck
Frank Berger

08/06 – 08/27/2005

The exhibition opens on Saturday, August 6th 2005 at 6 p.m.

By presenting REGINE MÜLLER WALDECK and FRANK BERGER, the gallery introduces two artists that will turn the gallery up-side-down – in a very literal sense!

The installation by REGINE MÜLLER WALDECK operates as a tight network of gracile form and glossy surface, in which one becomes immediately entangled when looking at it. Ostensibly 'innocent' objects and human limbs cast true to the original are distributed in a collage-like arrangement throughout the (air) space. This 'Hängung' (hanging) irritates through its exposed delicate lightness and alluded brutality. Notions of abyss are intrinsic to it leaving the game of aesthetics and violence open to the spectator. In perfect craftsmanship and implemented seamlessly, there is nothing left to say but with Jean Cocteau: "Something that is not relentless stays decorative."

 

 

FRANK BERGERS’s 'Oxford Street' focuses on a relatively short stretch of London’s famous shopping mile. The sequence of 60 photographies is projected in astonishing brilliance and detail on the entire wall. The images in dissolve technique re-animate the observed street scenery and turn them into a stage – an urban raree show with according accouterment and changing personnel. In a tide of busy people a 'living billboard' – standing in midst of the current – gradually emerges after some time, functioning as a seeming instance of calmness within this urban theater.