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Opening: TOM BURR - "MOODS"Hauptraum, DEIMANTAS NARKEVIČIUS, "AMONG THE THINGS WE TOUCHED", Galerie, Grafisches Kabinett27 April 2007 19:00 “Moods”, be they specific or vague, depend on various factors that may be individual just as they may reflect a particular time or generation, as described by Amanda Lear in a line from her song Alphabet “this is my alphabet for the children of my generation, ... each generation may find a different mood to their world...”. Tom Burr’s elegant arrangements of sculptures and objects aim for romantic desire at the same time as being cerebral events. At the Secession, Burr is showing new and recent works, loosely grouped and dividing the space into several areas.Tom Burr’s works act out past discourses on sculpture—from site-specificity and contextuality through theatricality—in different variants. In this way, the question of the author can again be asked without wishing to return to the figure of the artist as a director genius. Instead, it deals with the uncertain foundations of identity and unstable subjectivity. A number of characters are invoked, from the painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler (to whom the titles Arrangement in Black and Blue and Arrangement in Black and Red refer, and whose mention in turn invokes John Singer Sargent and Oscar Wilde), Jean Cocteau, and Truman Capote through Jack Kerouac, who is the subject of a series of collages. In his films, Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevičius deals with the experience of collective—usually Eastern European—history. In the politically and culturally turbulent situation in Eastern European states since the 1990s, Narkevičius currently sees a vacuum in which ideological self-awareness is characterized neither by a reflection of one’s own history, nor by any kind of vision for the future. Narkevičius constructs (past and future) history out of active relations with individual biographies. In this way, the protagonists of his films reconstruct and interweave their memories with a linear concept of history generally accepted as true. Narkevičius explores the medium of film using a documentary approach, in which, for example, interviews heard as voices-off comment on photographs or drawings, and diverse film techniques and narrative styles are used simultaneously. At the Secession, Deimantas Narkevičius is showing four of his most recent films. Location:
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