EXHIBITION

Daily memories

Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Magdeburg, 11/16/2014 - 03/01/2015

Regierungsstr. 4-6

ABOUT

Do you remember? Memory might be the most important method of orientation in life. As immediately our memories are part of our personality and our social being as less tangible the functioning of our memory seems to be in everyday life. Our memories can deceive us, haunt us, they select what really happened and they leave us – maybe especially in our time of today that is characterized by an unknown range of technical storage devices. Is our capacity of remembering losing its hitherto existing degree of insight and are the parameters of reality already shifting into the perspective of keywords looked up on the internet? Art’s steady and maybe most important idea has always been to capture what has been in order to be able to tell about it later and elsewhere. The artistic form is both an instrument and a place for storing memories.

 

The works of different 17 international artists reveal many different methods that show the function of memory. There are, for example, the recalled images collectively anchored by mass media that Michael Schirner explores in his manipulated photographs, there is the fear of forgetting and being forgotten in the faceless portraits of painter Gideon Rubin, while Edgar Arceneaux’s video deals with the memory of his father.

Anahita Razmi’s photograph reminds us of pictures taken of Micheline Bernardini in the year 1946. Louis Réard, a designer, sent her on the catwalk in a two-piece swimsuit that was printed with press photos of the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll.

Hans-Peter Feldmann explores typologies in everyday life. His photographic cycle “100 years” consists of 100 photos starting with a picture taken shortly after birth. Every following picture stands for one year of life. As so often photography serves as a storage medium for memories in life.

 

The word “daily” points to our remembering in everyday life that is often triggered by unconscious stimuli like a sound, a smell – or when looking at art.

 

Thus the exhibition creates a complex horizon of images and meanings providing a mirror for the visitor’s own experiences and memory.  

 

Artists:

 

EDGAR ARCENEAUX 

JEREMY DELLER 

MARKUS DRAPER 

HANS-PETER FELDMANN 

RUTH FRANCKEN 

DIETER FROELICH

MICHAEL HOFSTETTER 

SVEN JOHNE 

RASHID JOHNSON

JOEP VAN LIEFLAND

NICHOLAS NIXON

ANAHITA RAZMI

REALITIES:UNITED

GIDEON RUBIN

MICHAEL SCHIRNER

NANAÉ SUZUKI

YIN XIUZHEN 

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