Then the work takes place.
On the Paradigm of the Conceptual in Contemporary Photography
Infos
Duration
25.4.2009 – 28.6.2009
Opening
24.4.2009, 18:00
Lecture
23.4.2009, 18:00
Peter Piller, “Vorzüge der Absichtslosigkeit”
With
Marine Hugonnier (FR), Joachim Koester (DK), Sharon Lockhart (US), Jean-Luc Mylayne (FR), Peter Piller (DE), Hans Schabus (AT), Christopher Williams (US)
curated by Maren Lübbke-Tidow & Reinhard Braun
MARINE HUGONNIER, Towards Tomorrow (International Date Line, Alaska) I, 2001. Courtesy: Frac Lorraine, Metz / Max Wigram Gallery, London.
Intro
Contemporary conceptual art has, in recent years, been experiencing a cyclical upturn. Accordingly, in 2006 Camera Austria,
with the exhibition “First the artist defines meaning”, presented works by a younger generation of artists who were founding
their work on conceptual reflections. Evident here was a fundamental relationship of ambivalence – between image and idea,
between the visible and its representation, between methods and meaning – that invited more intensive reflection on this
ambivalent relationship as explored through the current (follow-up) project. After all, the title “Then the work takes place”
phrases the completion of Dan Graham’s sentence as stated in the context of deliberations on Sol LeWitt, which references
the traditional narrative of historical conceptual art: the focus lies on the primacy of the idea vis-à-vis the work. Precisely this
primacy of the idea vis-à-vis the work – of the conceivable and expressible vis-à-vis the sensible – forms the crux of the
explorative questioning by the exhibition “Then the work takes place”. The title (in accentuating the work) already signalises
that the images take centre stage as specific aesthetic occurrence and manifestation, that they are not simply pursuing the
idea but rather countering the language and the argument – that they are therefore occupying a space in which thought,
perception, recognition, experience, and knowledge are brought into new interrelatedness.
Installation Views
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Then the work takes place
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Hans Schabus, HAAANS, 2008/2009. Photo: Bruno Klomfar. Courtesy: Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Wien.
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Marine Hugonnier, Mountain with no name (Pandjshêr Valley, Afghanistan) VI, 2003. Courtesy: Max Wigram Gallery, London.
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Then the work takes place
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Then the work takes place
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Jean-Luc Mylayne, Nº B2, novembre – décembre 2000 – janvier 2001. C-print, 153 x 123 cm. Courtesy: Gladstone Gallery, New York.
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Marine Hugonnier, Towards Tomorrow (International Dateline, Alaska) I, 2001. From the series: "Towards Tomorrow", 2001 – 2003. Digital print on aluminium, 180 cm x 300 cm. Courtesy: Frac Lorraine, Metz / Max Wigram Gallery, London
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Joachim Koester, The Abbey of Thelema I, aus der Serie: Morning of the Magicians, 2005. Courtesy: Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen.
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Joachim Koester, The Room of Nightmares II, aus der Serie: Morning of the Magicians, 2005. Courtesy: Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen.
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Then the work takes place
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Sharon Lockhart, Enrique Nava Enedina: Oaxacan Exhibit Hall, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, 1999. Private collection, Berlin. Courtesy: neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
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Christopher Williams, Bouquet, for Bas Jan Ader and Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1991. Archival corrugated board, archival photocorners, compound, 4-ply conservamat, 8-ply conservamat, drywall, dye transfer print, glass, lacquer-based finish, linen tape, nails, Northern maple, plastic set back strips, primer, screws, seaming tape, paint and wood. Print: 16 x 20 inches [40,6 x 50,8 cm]; 29 x 32 5/8 inches [73,7 x 82,9 cm] (framed); Wall: 120 x 180 x 4 3/4 inches [304,8 x 457,2 x 12 cm]; Overall: 120 x 180 x 6 3/4 inches [304,8 x 457,2 x 17,2 cm]; Edition: 1/8. Edition size: 8 and 3 artist's proofs. Private collection, Berlin. Courtesy: Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln.
Lecture
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Vortrag / Lecture Peter Piller
"Vorzüge der Absichtslosigkeit"
Camera Austria 2009
Photo: Christian Wachter -
Vortrag / Lecture Peter Piller
"Vorzüge der Absichtslosigkeit"
Camera Austria 2009
Photo: Christian Wachter -
Vortrag / Lecture Peter Piller
"Vorzüge der Absichtslosigkeit"
Camera Austria 2009
Photo: Christian Wachter -
Vortrag / Lecture Peter Piller
"Vorzüge der Absichtslosigkeit"
Camera Austria 2009
Photo: Christian Wachter