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christine koenig galerie: G.R.A.M. : caf� paparazzi - 18 June 2009 to 1 Aug 2009 Current Exhibition |
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G.R.A.M., Paparazzi (Barack Obama), 2008
b/w - photography Courtesy Christine K�nig Galerie, Vienna |
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G.R.A.M. caf� paparazzi Opening: June 18, 2009, 7 - 9 p.m., together with the galleries Gabriele Senn, Georg Kargl, Momentum, and Engholm Engelhorn. The artists will be present. Duration of the exhibition: June 19 - August 1, 2009 For the duration of the exhibition G.R.A.M. will set up a real caf� in the gallery: CAFE PAPARAZZI. The pop music composer Binder&Krieglstein; will provide a soundtrack specifically for this. PAPARAZZI ISBN: 978-3-902675-07-1 is a new book by G.R.A.M. which will be published in "FOTOHOF edition 2009" http://www.christinekoeniggalerie.at/news/09/Paparazzi_GRAM.pdf From the gallery's CONVERSATION series: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 12 p.m. Thomas Seelig, Fotomuseum Winterthur and G.R.A.M. about "Look-Alikes" G.R.A.M. live and work in Graz. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2007 Penthouse, Abel - Neue Kunst, Berlin; China Entdecken, K�nstlerhaus, Graz; Wiederg�nger, Ateli�r Josefa Sudka, Prague; 2006 Global Player, Christine K�nig Galerie, Vienna; automatic (with Josef Dabernig), Art Film, Art Basel 2006; Allhamduleilah, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Z�rich; 2003 Cameron Jamie & G.R.A.M., Christine K�nig Galerie, Vienna; 2002 Wiener Blut, Christine K�nig Galerie, Vienna; 2001 Nach Motiven von ..., TZR Galerie f�r Bildende Kunst, Bochum, Germany; 2000 Elvis slept here, Galerie und Edition Artelier, Graz; Innocent Anarchists, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles. PAPARAZZI (1997-2008) Nearly a year before the fatal accident of Diana Spencer and Dodi Al-Fayed, G..R.A.M.. an artist group from Graz, developed the project PAPARAZZI. Beginning with a Schindler House scholarship in Los Angeles (1997), they integrated viewing habits and stereotypes of the commerical photographers into the art world. Playing with sensations, voyeurism, deceit, and the rules of media in photos of boring everyday scenes experiences a dramatic reinterpretation: through Paparazzi esthetics the ordinary is being loaded with secrets. "Fact" becomes "fiction". Since a decade G.R.A.M. delivers a series of PAPARAZZI images, a personal contribution to media�s conjuration of the "End of Privacy". All images were taken by G.R.A.M. themselves, through the mixing of prominent persons and celebrities (e.g. Barack Obama, David Beckham, Kate Moss, or Paris Hilton) and non-prominent persons a visual undergrowth evolves, where there seems to be no safe truth. The images "shot" in Hollywood, New York, Cannes, Nizza, Monte Carlo, London, Vienna, Berlin, or Graz simulate realities, that only exist in the minds of the viewers. With the complex PAPARAZZI series which embraces thousands of photos, G.R.A.M.. specifically focuses their view on the no man�s land between privacy and public, the gray zone between reality and non-reality. |
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