16 September 2006 – 7 January 2007

TERESA MARGOLLES

127 cuerpos

teresa_margolles_2 Teresa Margolles' at first glance poetic installations present the body in exceedingly abstract form and yet with the use of highly realistic means: she works with the water used to clean corpses, traces of blood or fatty deposits. In so doing she fills the exhibition space with the traces of several, often anonymous bodies and »contaminates« thus its neutral, innocent aura.
Thr work 127 cuerpos (127 bodies), 2006, which Teres Margolles conceived for the Kunstverein, alludes to 127 autopsied bodies from different regions of Mexico. The artist displays leftover pieces of suturing thread used in the sewing up the corpses after the autopsy. She connects these pieces of thread to create an installation which annexes the space and conveys a feeling of disappearance and dissolution by virtue of its reduced means.

A catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition.

The „Teresa Margolles" exhibition is part of the "Quadriennale 06" project of the city of Düsseldorf.

 

   

24 June – 27 August 2006

GUILLAUME LEBLON

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Symptomatic for Guillaume Leblon’s method is the discovery and superimposition of spaces and ideas of spaces, which are accessed by people. His formal language is indicative of the abstract trends of Modernism, Minimalism and Land Art, but also has a domestic or everyday feel about it. Leblon is specifically interested in »shifts« in the sense of a transference of architectural/utopian elements into free, abstract and autonomous forms: he uses simple materials such as plaster, cardboard, wood, leather and copper to construct his installations, which one can walk around and which contain the traces of both stories and history itself. Leblon has developed an overall course out of a display structure for the Kunstverein, which is presenting his first solo exhibition in Germany. The course allows an experimental field of works to arise and invites the viewer to place familiar forms and as yet unknown meanings into new relationships.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.

 

   

12 March - 11 June 2006

AMELIE VON WULFFEN

wulffen_installation_1 The painterly research of Amelie von Wulffen intermingles her own and common history, the inside with the outside and points to different traditions on which present-days dissolving society is based on. Cultural history and politics meet one another in traumatic places and ruins; objects of memory span an imaginary network between Dürer, Seurat, Solschenizyn, John Travolta and her own grandmother.
Von Wulffen is most notably known for her collages: photographs mounted in a central position are expanded through painting and dissolved into abstract compositions. She prolongs in parts direct biographical references and motives taken from art history into the exhibition space and cross-fades the different levels on which artist and viewer experience the work.

A catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition in cooperation with Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel.