Thursday, March 19, 2009

Kunstverein Hannover / Frankfurter Kunstverein



The Kunstverein Hannover and the Frankfurter Kunstverein present the first comprehensive solo show of Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller (*1976, Århus) in Germany. 

Simon Dybbroe Møller subjects twentieth-century avant-garde to a subjective revision in his work. His installations, photographs and films allude to a seemingly astonishing precision in the accidental; convey by transformation, manipulation or mirroring, a mystical aura to the putatively logical. 

He is interested in the failures and peripheries of recent art history and combines individual fragments in order to construe new references or to lay emphasis on forgotten protagonists and bypaths. A side of modernism emerges behind the smooth, clear, and rationalist façade of abstract and conceptual art that already Sol LeWitt noted in his Sentences on Conceptual Art when he wrote: "We are mystics rather than rationalists."


CURATED BY: René Zechlin and Katja Schroeder

SPONSORS: "Kompendium" at Kunstverein Hannover is made possible by the kind support of the country of lower saxony, the Sparkasse Hannover and the Niedersächsische Sparkassen foundation. "Appendix" at Frankfurter Kunstverein is kindly supported by the Danish Arts Council, the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen and the Naspa Stiftung "Initiative und Leistung".

CATALOGUE: The catalogue including texts by Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Matthew Brannon, Brian O'Connel, Sam Frank, Christian Höller, Peter Laugesen, Thomas Meinecke, Katja Schroeder, Lumi Tan and René Zechlin is published by Sternberg Press and will be released on 17th April.

ALSO ON VIEW AT KUNSTVEREIN HANNOVER: 14th March - 17th May 2009
JOÃO MARIA GUSMÃO + PEDRO PAIVA: "ABOUT THE PRESENCE OF THINGS" 

ALSO ON VIEW AT FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN: 27th March - 31st May 2009
DORIS LASCH / URSULA PONN
"IF YOU DON'T CREATE YOUR OWN HISTORY SOMEONE ELSE WILL"
SASKIA HOLMKVIST
"ROLE CONTROL - IN CHARACTER"
10 REASONS TO BE A MEMBER #19 
COVA MACÍAS: "HORSES IN MY DREAMS" 

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