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Exposición / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Grabbeplatz, 4 / Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Alemania
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Cuándo:
10 sep de 2011 - 09 oct de 2011

Inauguración:
10 sep de 2011

Organizada por:
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Artistas participantes:
João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

João Ma­ria Gusmão and Pe­dro Pai­va (born 1979 and 1977) de­scri­be their work as a poe­ti­cal phi­lo­so­phi­cal fic­tion. A cen­tral sour­ce of in­spi­ra­ti­on for the Por­tu­gue­se ar­tist duo are the wri­tings of the litt­le-known French aut­hor René Dau­mal (1908-1944) who be­mo­aned the loss of myths in mo­dern so­cie­ty and de­vo­ted him­s­elf to the li­mits of con­ven­tio­nal per­cep­ti­on and the ma­gic of things.

 

As Dau­mal de­scri­bed in his 1943 short sto­ry 'The De­ter­mi­ning Me­mo­ry,' Tem gwef tem gwef dr rr rr was a sound him­s­elf ma­de du­ring one of his vi­si­ons of the here­af­ter. Li­ke Dau­mal, who ne­ga­ted the bo­un­da­ries bet­ween the mys­te­rious and the ra­tio­nal in his wri­tings, know­ledge over­laps wi­th sur­re­al, un­ex­plainable ap­pa­ri­ti­ons in Gusmão's and Pai­va's films, pho­to­graphs and sculp­tu­res in which they ar­tis­ti­cal­ly vi­sua­li­se the in­com­pre­hen­si­ble and uni­ma­ginable.

 

In a kind of dream­scape set­ting de­ve­lo­ped es­pe­ci­al­ly for the ex­hi­bi­ti­on, the ar­tists show a se­ries of works that chal­len­ge re­a­son in par­ti­cu­lar wi­th fil­mic me­ans, op­ti­cal il­lu­si­ons and ob­scu­re ex­pe­ri­ments and deal wi­th the pro­blem of re­lia­bly il­lus­tra­ting rea­li­ty.

 

The ex­hi­bi­ti­on is ac­com­pa­nied by a Ger­man/English pu­bli­ca­ti­on wi­th nu­me­rous co­lour il­lus­tra­ti­ons and texts by Elo­die Evers, René Dau­mal and João Ma­ria Gusmão and Pe­dro Pai­va.

 

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