Fein raus
05/15 – 06/04/2005
Opening: Saturday, 05/14/2005, at 6 p.m.
- Q, 2004, bronze (10 pieces), 40 x 35 x 20 cm
- Pirat, 2005,bronze (7 pieces), 43 x 63 x 42 cm, edition 3
- Büttel, 2005, elastomer, metal rods, 180 x 170 cm, edition 3
- Interrail, 2001, illuminated advertisement box, glass panes, engine, 90 x 60 x 10 cm
Andreas Grahl
Q 2004
Bronze (10 pieces)
40 x 35 x 20 cm
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The works of Andreas Grahl do not follow a specific pattern of formal recognition, but seem to appear somehow familiar. The bronze sculptures and wall installations on display are connected by their common approach: seemingly trivial circumstances of life are deprived of their causality and rationality and without saying calculation and improvisation, references to reality and poetics start to interweave. In their high degree of artistic craftsmanship and level of material expenditure these art works are foremost an expression of enormous sensuality.
- Monika T., 2005, dig. c-print, 155 x 120 cm (framed), edition 2+1 a.p.
- Verräter, Drecksau, 2005, dig. c-print, 124 x 164 cm (framed), edition 2+1 a.p.
- Verdienter Respekt, 2005, dig. c-print, 124 x 164 cm (framed), edition 2+1 a.p.
- Vorbild für Verdächtige, 2005, dig. c-print, 155 x 120 cm (framed), edition 2+1 a.p.
Michael Schäfer
Monika T. 2005
Dig. c-print
155 x 120 cm
Edition 2+1 a.p.
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The large-scale photographies of Michael Schäfer present themselves in an equal skill of artistic expression. Taking perceived absurdities in the visual language of everyday media as initial point, Schäfer uses photography in order to set detailed standards of own visual and referential spaces. These are to be intrinsically located in our cultural memory and in present times, but do not have any relation to real events. Being completely staged and constructed, they obtain by fraud our trust quoting media codes and using stereotypical iconographies. In doing so, the works of Michael Schäfer confront us as archetypes and projection screen.