30 Illusionistic paintings with draperies.
An exhibition, 1992/1995 (Curtain, hydrometer, rope cordons, picture captions,
video monitor and surveillance camera, mirror, catalogue and audio cassette
with a guided tour lasting 40 minutes
Voice: Klaus Piontek, Deutsches Theater, Berlin) |
The interior of a light shaft is staged as a small art exhibition room.
The entrance is hung with a red brocade curtain which is gathered back at
the side. Each empty window frame inside the shaft is painted gold and has
its own picture caption beneath it. Inside the room a surveillance camera
attached at the wall opposite the room's entrance films the visitors from
a mirror hanging on a wall in a small vestibule on the other side of the
curtain. Thus the exhibition visitor appears in the monitor as a figure
within a "tableau vivant" which (being half-covered by the brocade
curtain) scenically imitates the interconnected rooms portrayed by the Dutch
genre painters. The guided tour through this collection of imaginary "paintings
with illusionistic drapes" can be heard on a walkman.
Shown at:
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1992
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Hamburg, Installation in a light shaft, Galerie Vorsetzen |
| 1995 |
Potsdam, Installation in a gallery, Galerie Mittelstrasse |
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Voice (Englisch): David Freedberg, Audiofile (Quicktime)
Voice (German): Klaus Piontek, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Audiofile (Quicktime)
http://www.plueschow.de/bild-malerei/weirich_t.html
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