EXHIBITION

Land Ends / Wunderkammer

Museum Théo Kerg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Schriesheim, 09/27/2015 - 11/01/2015

Talstraße 52, 69198 Schriesheim

ABOUT

Land Ends showed in Museum Théo Kerg, Schriesheim, Germany – featuring ‘Wunderkammer’ by Canadian artist Michael Campbell, a cabinet of curiosities including works by Michael Campbell and Janice Rahn. The show also included new collaborative photographs by APT artist Melissa Moore and Michael Campbell, from the Series ‘Even the Light is Dark Enough’, and generated much favourable regional press.

The small island Hornby off the west coast of British Columbia / Canada is a special place. Since the 1960s, it is preferred inhabited by dropouts, environmentalists and consumer critics who enrich seasonal or year-round with her creative life. Many have created here imaginative wooden houses, sometimes with a living tree as an integral part.

Many interiors and gardens on Hornby are distinguished in that they are enriched with flotsam and found objects from nature. And a popular hub for Used (an ideal basis for the "up-cycling") is the "Free Store", where you can easily change things.

 

The British photographer Melissa Moore and the Canadian artist Michael Campbell are avid customers of this shop. Both have visited the island for a long time again, and Campbell has there now a studio. Now they show at the newly renovated Museum Théo Kerg in Schriesheim, which connects them to Hornby.

In the series "Land Ends", the renowned photo artist Moore 2008-2013 enigmatic, mossy glades, bizarre shore formations or cozy, cluttered with all sorts of junk houses trapped in which they themselves - usually only visible as a background figure or the hair - with scans. In clothes from the "Free Store" that fit in color to each topic, it becomes a natural part of the environment - held in place with the self-timer of an analog Hasselblad camera.

As the art historian Maria Lucia Weigel stressed during the opening in her introductory speech, the photos of Melissa Moore depict not external but an inner, spiritual reality that connects the artist with these places. In fact, the almost mystical terms is not only visible where they, for example, details of the amazing, built under cosmic viewpoints building by architect Lloyd House shows, but also where it accepts the misty or bathed in bright light landscape of the island in focus ,

Michael Campbell does it differently: On the beach and in the "Free Store" he sets out in search of floating debris, old tools and materials such as copper, tin and brass. From this he formed quite curious objects, which can retain each track and stories of former users. In the display case on the ground floor of the museum amassed a "Wunderkammer", reflect something of the playful, often to the horror vacui prone acquisitiveness of the islanders. In this manner, Campbells assemblages an apt complement to the large-scale photographs Moore showing off the idiosyncratic spirit of Hornby impressively.

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