„..The five or six paintings which hung on the walls impressed me as objects upon which their owner’s eyes rested daily with love. None of them could have been painted after 1750. Among them was a Poussin. They all gave off a breath of peace, and disclaimed any effect. By this I do not mean the effect of modern painters, who limit themselves to pure invention, but the effect produced by masters. These painting, assembled here by Zapparoni, could never have seemed surprising, not even to their contemporaries. From the very beginning they must have seemed familiar.
This impression, transmitted to the entire house, was linked with another impression, concerning the problem of pure power, and was intensified by it. As I said before we live in times when words have lost or changed their meaning and have become ambiguous. This also holds true for the word “house”, formerly the very essence of stability and permanence. For some time now a house has become a sort of tent, but without giving the freedom enjoyed by nomads. Buildings are pushed up high, and jerry-built structures rise by the thousands. This would not be so bad if, at least for a short while, one could feel safe in one’s own and untouchable home. The opposite is true: Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him at foot, by car, or by telephone."
Ernst Jünger
"RED DOT" JONATHON KEATS (USA) SEP/OKT 2007
"ICH LIEBE DEUTSCHLAND UND DEUTSCHLAND LIEBT MICH" - R.T.HANSEN - JULY-AUG 2007
"MOLOTOV" - TOMAZ KRAMBERGER (SLO) - JUNE 2007
"JESUS FUNNY SORRY" - BAKTRUPPEN (Nor) - Produktion Sohpiensäle - JUNE 2007
"BELIEVERS & ILLUSIONISTS" - FULL LIST OF WORKS- PRESSRELEASE -
Vårin Andersen (N), Jan Christensen (N), Santiago Cucullu (AR), Halina Kliem (DE), Josefine Lyche (N),
Frode Markhus (N), Marius Martinussen (N), Yorgos Sapountzis (GR), Anders Smebye (N), and Norbert Erwin Witzgall (DE).
Curated by Lars Morell
"OVERHALFWAYROUND" - GEMMA BUDDEN (UK) - APRIL 2007
"ONE THOUSAND PAINTINGS" - MARCEL SALATHÉ (CH) - MARCH 2007
HIDEHITO WORLD" HIDEHITO SHINNOU (JAP) - FEBRUARY 2007 (BEST SHOP)
"24 HRS OPEN" ROBERT BARTA (GER) - FEBRUARY 2007
"R.T.HANSEN CONTEMPORARY" - JAN 2007
"BLURRY DIAMOND" LARS MORELL (NOR) - NOVEMBER 2006
LILY ELECTRIC (DK) - BAND PERFORMANCE - OCTOBER 2006
"BLINDS" JAKOB FRIIS (DK) - OCTOBER 2006
"NEW DRAWINGS" ANNIKA UNTERBURG (GER) - SEPTEMBER 2006
"1.618" CLAUS RASMUSSEN (DK) - AUGUST 2006
Other
THOMAS LINDVIG @ RIO JAN 08
"PANTOME CALIPPO" ALEX RATH - NOV 2007
"NEW WORKS" CELESTE NATJ OKT 2007
HOME
Domesticated
reality & overloaded context of art
Blending
in with the atmosphere of a casually interiored Berlin apartment any audience
visiting could make their own mind up whether the art was meant as a social
badge or if the architecture was purposefully downgraded to rid the context
of any of the usual art-gallery-aesthetics. The intention with exhibiting
art in living rooms was to show the hypocracy in moder art: "designed"
art. In an age of constant recycling of ideas the design-thinking reflects
the mind of the ultimate subjective individual, immersed in materia, disengaging
from any realness behinds phenomena. Producing methaphors of signification.
Modern art as this platonical reflection is often made by outsorced labour
be it painter assistants, builders or other more knowledgable hands. Making
the artist more or less the manager the creative head of a advertising/branding
agency of output of objects and media. Contemporary art has paradoxically
removed itself from any real aesthetical purpose and revolutionary potential.
The true liberation however does not lie in art but in the art of the real so to speak. Domesticated experience emphasises "the real" element of art as it has no( fine) art context to cover behind. If it's just a pipe lying in the living room, it IS in fact a pipe.
Aug 2006-Aug 2007, R.T.Hansen
R.T.Hansen is Danish working from Berlin. In 2006 he exhibited his home along with art exhibitions to show the emergence of art and design. Other projects include transforming an art gallery to interior design retail (2007), furniture of recycled wood (2008) and wall-papers of old walls (forthcoming).