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Galerie Marian Goodman: LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN - 9 Apr 2011 to 21 May 2011 Current Exhibition |
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LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN April 9 - May 21, 2011 Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to present its fourth exhibition by the artist Lothar Baumgarten, with Fragmento Brasil / R�alit� Silhouette Paradoxe (1977-2005), a multi projection of slides existing in four versions. � Fragmento Brasil is a projection piece of six synchronized projectors, organized in three pairs beside two single additional projectors. Each projector pair has its own interval for a total of 648 simultaneously projected images. All pairs have different projection sizes and are balanced in relation to each other. To create a momentum, the projected images relate in their size to the given architectural conditions. There is no sound involved in this piece. This piece exists in four versions of individual composition. The parcours of the projected images and their sequences are comprised of three visual sources: details from eighty single paintings of Brazilian birds in idealized landscapes of European provenance by Albert Eckhout from 1654; drawings made by Y�nom�mi people in pencil, watercolor and pen; landscape photography of the Rio Caroni, Rio Uraricuera and Rio Branco region in Venezuela and Brazil that I took in 1977. The painted European vision of Brazilian birds opposes the exploring native hand. The configurations of both lines and concepts overlay one another often in congruence. Through this binary stratum they talk back to us about the diversity of two multiple-shaped worlds. This strand combines the projected images in ever-changing intervals and forms its osmosis and parcours. The abstract drawings and watercolors of the Y�nom�mi people represent the animistic cosmos of a non-writing society. In their abstraction they often match the plumage pattern of the birds. These species are also game and find regular use in the native kitchen. The people adorn themselves with the feathers or use their patterns for body painting and to adorn their goods. This exceptional and intriguing circumstance and stunning quality became the material source to develop this piece. The drawings of the Y�nom�mi, who hadn�t experienced a sheet of paper before they drew on it, are extraordinarily sensual through their spiritual truth and technical skills. These markings were animated and collected by myself during a time frame of eighteen months while I lived among the people of Kashoraw�-theri in the Upper Orinoco region in 1978-1980. Through their nomadic, half sedentary lifestyle, I came in contact with many other bands of the Y�nom�mi society which live in the forests in Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil in the Parima and Pacaraima Mountains. Natural patterns related to animals and plants are very common in their daily use. They also frequently represent the hekura, powerful invisible spirits from their animistic world. The landscape photography took place during a walk of five month in La Gran Sabana in Venezuela and Northern Brazil in 1977. � Lothar Baumgarten The work of Lothar Baumgarten has been presented in many personal and collective exhibitions in international museums and institutions. Fragmento Brasil / On the Origin of Table Manners (1971-2005) is a unique piece which is presently shown in the Museum Folkwang�s permanent collection (Essen, Germany). His recent solo exhibitions include Seven Sounds/Seven Circles, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2009), Autofocus retina, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona (2008), Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany (2006), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2008), Carbon, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (2004), The Origin of the Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2003), Carbon, De Pont, Tilburg (2002), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2001), Museu Serralves, Porto (2001). He represented Germany at the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984, where his work was awarded the Golden Lion. Among his last collective exhibitions we can cite Projecto Tierra, Alh�ndiga Bilbao (2010), Leopolds in the Temple, Sculpture Center, Long Island, USA (2010), Radical Nature � Art and Architecture for a changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican Centre, London (2009), Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, Museu Colec�ao Berardo, Lisbon (2009), Un Coup des D�s, Generali Foundation, Vienna (2008), Objectivit�s: La Photographie � D�sseldorf, Mus�e d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris (2008), From the Earth to the Moon, Castello Rivoli, Torino (2007), Why Pictures Now, MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2006), Slide Show, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2005-2006), Behind the facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Joan Mir� Foundation, Barcelona, Museu Serralves, Porto, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. He participated in the Documenta (Kassel) in 1972, 1982, 1992 and 1997. LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN April 9 - May 21, 2011 La galerie Marian Goodman a le plaisir de pr�senter sa quatri�me exposition de l�artiste Lothar Baumgarten, avec Fragmento Brasil / R�alit� Silhouette Paradoxe (1977-2005), une projection multiple de diapositives existant en quatre versions. � L��uvre Fragmento Brasil consiste en six projecteurs de diapositives synchronis�s, organis�s en trois paires, avec deux projecteurs individuels additionnels. Chaque paire de projecteurs a son propre intervalle, pour un total de 648 images projet�es simultan�ment. Les tailles de projection sont diff�rentes et s��quilibrent en fonction des autres. Pour cr�er une dynamique, la taille des images projet�es r�pond aux conditions architecturales du lieu d�exposition. C�est une pi�ce sans son, existant en quatre versions compos�es individuellement. Les images proviennent de trois sources visuelles: des d�tails de quatre-vingts peintures d�Albert Eckhout repr�sentant des oiseaux br�siliens sur fond de paysages europ�ens id�alis�s, datant de 1654 ; des dessins r�alis�s par les indiens Y�nom�mi au crayon, � l�aquarelle et au stylo ; des photographies en noir et blanc de paysages des r�gions du Rio Caroni, Rio Uraricuera et Rio Branco au Venezuela et au Br�sil, que j�ai prises en 1977. La fa�on dont la peinture europ�enne voit les oiseaux br�siliens s�oppose � la mani�re indig�ne qui, elle, explore. Dans cette configuration, lignes et concepts se recouvrent, souvent harmonieusement. Par cette strate binaire, elle nous renvoie � la diversit� de deux mondes prot�iformes. Cet encha�nement, qui m�le des images projet�es � des intervalles qui changent ind�finiment, cr�e son osmose et son parcours. Les dessins abstraits et les aquarelles des Y�nom�mi refl�tent le cosmos animiste d�une soci�t� sans �criture, et correspondent souvent aux motifs du plumage des oiseaux. Ces esp�ces servent aussi de gibier et sont couramment utilis�es dans la cuisine indig�ne. Les indiens prennent les plumes comme parure, et leurs motifs pour les peintures corporelles et la d�coration des objets. Ces faits � la fois exceptionnels et intrigants, sont devenus, de par leur qualit� remarquable, les mat�riaux � l�origine de cette pi�ce. Les dessins des Y�nom�mi, qui n�avaient jamais vu de feuille de papier avant de dessiner dessus, sont extraordinairement sensuels dans leur v�rit� spirituelle et leur habilet� technique. Ces compositions ont �t� initi�es et collect�es par moi-m�me lors de mon s�jour de dix-huit mois dans la r�gion du Haut-Or�noque aupr�s du peuple des Kashoraw�-theri en 1978-1980. Gr�ce � leur mode de vie nomade et semi-s�dentaire, j�ai pu rencontrer plusieurs autres groupes de la soci�t� Y�nom�mi, qui vit dans les for�ts du Sud du Venezuela et du Nord du Br�sil dans les monts Parima et Pacaraima. Les motifs inspir�s de la faune et de la flore sont tr�s pr�sents dans leur vie quotidienne. Ils repr�sentent r�guli�rement les hekura, ces puissants esprits de leur monde animiste. Les photographies de paysages ont �t� prises durant une marche de cinq mois dans la Gran Sabana (La Grande Savane) au Venezuela et au Nord du Br�sil en 1977. � Lothar Baumgarten Le travail de Lothar Baumgarten a �t� pr�sent� dans de tr�s nombreuses expositions personnelles et collectives dans des mus�es et institutions internationales. L��uvre Fragmento Brasil / On the Origin of Table Manners (1971-2005) est une pi�ce unique qui est actuellement montr�e dans la collection permanente du mus�e Folkwang � Essen, Allemagne. Ses expositions personnelles r�centes incluent Seven Sounds/Seven Circles, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Autriche (2009), Autofocus retina, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelone (2008), Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Allemagne (2006), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2008), Carbon, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (2004), The Origin of the Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2003), Carbon, De Pont, Tilburg (2002), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2001), Museu Serralves, Porto (2001). Il a repr�sent� l�Allemagne � la 41�me Biennale de Venise en 1984, o� son �uvre a re�u le Lion d�or. Parmi les expositions collectives r�centes auxquelles il a particip�, on peut citer Projecto Tierra, Alh�ndiga Bilbao (2010), Leopolds in the Temple, Sculpture Center, Long Island, Etats-Unis (2010), Radical Nature � Art and Architecture for a changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican Centre, Londres (2009), Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, Museu Colec�ao Berardo, Lisbonne (2009), Un Coup des D�s, Generali Foundation, Vienne (2008), Objectivit�s: La Photographie � D�sseldorf, Mus�e d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris (2008), From the Earth to the Moon, Castello Rivoli, Turin (2007), Why Pictures Now, MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig, Vienne (2006), Slide Show, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art, New York, Etats-Unis (2005-2006), Behind the facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Joan Mir� Foundation, Barcelone, Museu Serralves, Porto, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. Il a particip� � la Documenta de Kassel en 1972, 1982, 1992 et 1997. |
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