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6/13/2000 - 11/4/2000
In the exhibition Mike Kelley, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, the Goetz Collection brings together two opposing artistic positions which transcend their different cultural and intellectual backgrounds to unite in a precise and pointed view of our reality. Mike Kelley was born in Detroit in 1954. He lives and works in Los Angeles. The two Swiss artists, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, were born in 1952 and 1946 in Zurich, where they still live and work. All the exhibits are from the collection and give a unique insight into the major works of these artists from the beginning of the Eighties until now. Mike Kelley’s works are firmly anchored in the ironic and detached manner in which he deals with his Irish/Catholic upbringing. He makes use of the pictorial worlds of specific subcultures and the aesthetics of ‘low culture’ products. His confrontation with different psychoanalytical theories is a theme that runs through all his works. As well as an intense interest in the theme of childhood, he also deals with studies and theories concerning the development of specific forms of sexual behavior and cultural identification. In his works he reflects our everyday life with its obsession for psychologizing theories and analyses. Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been working together since 1979. For their works they use simple everyday objects. Their humorous treatment of the various philosophical and theoretical ideas that try and find an explanation for our world is a theme that runs through all their works. By making slight alterations, artistically manipulating, or by changing the perspective, they take objects out of their normal context, enticing our thoughts to stray and see things in a different light. In their work they reflect our everyday life with its obsession for philosophizing theories and speculations. These two positions thus complement each other, far beyond the Atlantic, their cultures, uniqueness and individuality. Philosophy and psychoanalysis do not meet in their academic form, but in the reversals, simplifications and reductions that they experience in our everyday talk. Cheerful speculation about everyday things encounters a skeptical sense of humor regarding theories we use to fabricate our conception of ourselves. The exhibition is to be accompanied by video and film works by the artists. The extension and architectural integration of the galleries of Herzog & de Meuron, which until now have not been open to the public, will enable us to show video and film works from the Goetz Collection on a permanent basis and in an appropriate setting. Our premiere in these new rooms will comprise three films by Peter Fischli and David Weiss and films by and with Mike Kelley , which will run for the duration of the show. The three films by Peter Fischli and David Weiss Der Lauf der Dinge, Der Rechte Weg and Der geringste Widerstand are to be shown at the Munich Filmmuseum on Sunday, Oct. 15, at 8.30 p.m. The large, associated, three-dimensional installation, Alma Pater, created by Mike Kelley in 1990 and also part of the Goetz Collection, will be on view in the Lenbachhaus in Munich for the duration of the exhibition, from June 13, to November 4. In the exhibition catalogue, which covers 136 pages and contains 100 reproductions at a price of DM 48, Mike Kelley explains the autobiographical motives for this work. In addition, the catalogue includes an introduction by the curator Rainald Schumacher about the individual works in the collection, an article by Boris Groys about the slide composition by Peter Fischli and David Weiss entitled Projection 1 (H) (flowers) and the transcription of the spoken text of the work entitled Dialogue #1. An essay by Mike Kelley puts his installation Unisex Love Nest into the context of the gender and genre of transcending cultural activities from the Sixties and Seventies. A reprint of a short report by Patrick Frey about a day out with Peter Fischli and David Weiss sheds light on their humorous way of thinking and working. The catalogue also includes a list of the individual exhibits and reproductions. Catalog: Mike Kelley - Peter Fischli, David Weiss Essays by Ingvild Goetz, Rainald Schumacher, Mike Kelley, Daniel Kothenschulte, Patrick Frey, Bice Curiger, Boris Groys. Selected bibliography and exhibition checklist. Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz G.m.b.H. Editor: Ingvild Goetz / Rainald Schumacher 136 pages, 104 ills., 29 € Delivery: 9 € in Europe (Postage and Packaging) Delivery after payment: We will send you an invoice. Catalogues will be shipped, as soon as we have received payment. Language: English / German ISBN 3-9805267-5-5 http://www.sammlung-goetz.de/index2.php?lang=en&pn=publ&id=13
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| Photo Credits: 1–5) Nic Tenwiggenhorn, Düsseldorf; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 6, 7) SLG (Artists) © Goetz Collection, Authors and Artists | ||||
