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[8. september
2002]
pressemeddelelse
Artists talk
- with Morten Schelde and Wolf von Kries
Morten Schelde and Wolf von Kries
Tuesday, the 10. September at 7 PM
Sparwasser HQ Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
Torstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin
Telefon +49 30 21803001 / 01796705859
Fax +49 30 44047981
www.sparwasserhq.de
mail@sparwasserhq.de
Morten Schelde:
I am in my apartment trying to write a text on my work. In the background,
the first Star Trek movie is running. A little while ago, I was
watching CNN's preparations for the upcoming september 11. Outside
my open window was just a minute ago the sounds of a weddingparty
going on at the church across the street, playing the wedding march
and some songs of Nena and Joe Cocker.
These clashes of different realities is very much what my work is
about. I like working with a diversity of pictures, collecting and
combining them. I am interested in the psychological and emotional
impact they have on me, and in the way pictures are dealt with in
the media and in art. How do we encounter them as individuals?
In general, I am interested in producing images reflecting an individual
voice, while trying to find underlying structures of what ties us
together in communities and larger groups.
Specifically, I have chosen drawing as my primary medium. I started
working with drawings because I like the slowliness and simplicity
of the process, and chose to work mostly monochromatic after having
tried out doing fullcolour drawings...which turned out to look like
the work of 10 kindergarden-kids. Working in just one colour is
to me about emphasising the drawing as surface, and it gives me
the possibility to work with shifts of ambiences between the individual
drawings. Like the differences between CNN, Nena and Joe Cocker.
M.S. Berlin 8/9-2002 http://www.mortenschelde.dk
Wolf von Kries:
Bei den hier vorgestellten Arbeiten handelt es sich zumeist um ortspezifische
Interventionen, in denen die Funktionsweisen sozialer, ökonomischer
kultureller Strukturen hinterfragt werden. Dabei werden bestehende
Mechanismen oder Objekte durch kleine Eingriffe isoliert, konzentriert
oder simuliert und erhalten so eine von der herkömmlichen Anwendung
abgehobene Bedeutungsebene, die seine Funktion zugleich auflöst
und bestätigt.
Wolf von Kries lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Most of the presented works are site-specific interventions that
question in one way or the other the functioning of our social,
economical or cultural structures. They consist of little manipulations
of existing mechanisms or objects, which are either isolated, concentrated
or simulated thus adding a meaning beyond its original function,
which it affirms and dissolves at the same time.
Wolf von Kries lives and works in Berlin.
Sparwasser HQ is supported by DCA (Danish Contemporary Art Foundation)
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