'COVER UP' Tape Modern No.16 Curated by Christopher Winter with collaboration from Stephen Riolo.
Opening: Friday 11th June 7pm-2am Address: Heidestrasse 14, 10557 Berlin. Tape Modern is proud to present the international group exhibition Cover-up curated by Christopher Winter Tape Modern hosts one-night events that have over the past years established themselves as an innovative platform for curated shows at the heart of the Berlin Art Scene. Cover-up will explore art which literally masks and hides true identity Many motives and objectives inform this work; sexual: political, religious and sociological. Leigh Bowery / Fergus Greer I Boris von Brauchitsch I Olaf Breuning I Thorsten Brinkmann I Marcel Dzama (The Royal Art Lodge) Dennis Feser I Andreas Fux I Linda King I John Kleckner I Robert OConnor I Loukas Panayiotis I Sabine Reinfeld Stefanie Reling / David Lee Burns I Sergio Roger I Eli Sudbrack (Assume Vivid Astro Focus) I Jochen Twelker Weitz / Volkmann I Frauke Wilken I Christopher Winter A thread runs through contemporary art that has its roots in the theatrical performances of Oskar Schlemmer. In the 1920s, Schlemmer engaged in three years of practical research into the nature of non-naturalistic or abstract stage space. This applied also to the human form. Schlemmer attempted to recreate on stage the metaphysically resonant spaces which he depicted in his paintings. The body altering element that appears in the psycho-sexual work of Thorsten Brinkmann and Dennis Feser becomes truly transformed and public for artists like Leigh Bowery. His desire to challenge preconceived ideas of beauty and gender using fashion and humour aims to shock and move boundaries. Robert OConners work focuses on the language of the city such as posters and billboard advertising. The photographs explore urban symbols, codes, image subversion and how this type of altered media cuts a swath through the usual. We live in a world that seamlessly blends fantasy with image and physical reality. There is now a generation of young artists who engage in covering-up. It is not just confined to performance, photography or video but includes painting. This is clearly illustrated by the work of Marcel Dzama, Christopher Winter and Loukas Panayiotis. All the chosen artists depict the covered human body, altering it's form in order to deconstruct and mask it's natural appearance. This resonates strongly in our times of virtual worlds and Internet identities. -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
