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Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle: BJ�RN DAHLEM - VOYAGER Showroom: TIM LEE, ANICKA YI - 8 Dec 2011 to 28 Jan 2012 Current Exhibition |
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BJÖRN DAHLEM VOYAGER Showroom TIM LEE ANICKA YI December 8th 2011 until January 28th2012 Opening: Wednesday, December 7th 2011, 7.00-9.00 p.m. Voyager is the title of Björn Dahlem’s first exhibition in his native city of Munich. In his room-filling installations Dahlem processes the widest diversity of everyday objects and materials into world models distinguished by their sheer poetry of form and composition. Astronomy, physics, psychology and philosophy are his prevalent themes. Forming an essential part of these visionary installations are acrylic showcases – reminiscent of museum showcases or relic shrines – standing in the room or projecting from the wall. These showcases contain fragile sculptures. What is the role of the individual and how does the individual relate to the whole? What do we believe in? Such are the questions posed by the artist, beginning with the title. Witnessed by millions of people worldwide, the Voyager 1 space probe was launched in 1977, so far the only man-made object to venture into the hitherto uncharted depths of the universe.Science and philosophy merge with hope, speculation and belief. While he is fully aware of the primaeval helplessness of humanity, Björn Dahlem makes no attempt at pointing the way but rather opens up possibilities of complex and individual interpretation. Born in Munich in 1974, Björn Dahlem has been living and working in Berlin since 1999. He already has many international exhibitions to his credit, including his shows at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. His presentation Die Theorie des Himmels at the KIT (Kunst im Tunnel) in Düsseldorf in 2010 was accompanied by a same-titled catalogue. For his first exhibition at the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Björn Dahlem will be showing his work both in the exhibition room on the 1st floor and in the roof garden. Exhibiting at the same time on the ground floor will be the Canadian artist Tim Lee and the New York-based artist Anicka Yi. Born in Seoul in 1975, Tim Lee lives and works in Vancouver. His films, videos and photographs have as their theme the ambivalent relationship between ethnicity, nationalism, art history and regional folklore, a subject matter the artist often treats with plenty of humour, though never without insight. With the aid of such stylistic devices as splitting and doubling, twisting and reversing, Tim Lee succeeds in making the viewer perceive things not just in terms of their form but also question them in terms of their content. Is what we see perhaps not what we think we see? On the invitation of Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa, Tim Lee recently exhibited at the 12th International Istanbul Biennial. In 2009/10 he was a Guest of the DAAD's Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme. His work was shown in a solo exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery in 2009. Anicka Yi, born in 1971, likewise in Seoul, lives and works in New York. A row of colourful roll-necked sweaters hang from clothes hangers on the wall. Deep-fried flowers grow out of their collars. An aggressive treatment of tactility- surface textures, simultaneously inviting and repelling touch, smell. The connections between materials and materialism, states of perishability and their relationship to meaning and value, consumerist digestion and cultural metabolism are questions that emerge. By exploring tactility, sensorial, political, identity-like statements of biological metaphor, memory machine Yi attempts to develop a new language from an expanded notion of the sensorial. Her participation in the exhibition at the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery is the first showing of her work in Germany. |
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