Mind Body Alpha
1989
Oil, acrylic and vinyl lettering on canvas
73 1/2 x 73 1/2 in.
Subject: The concentration of consciousness and mass for the entire Universe.
Symbol Evocation: The position in Space from which everything is related.
SECRET UNIVERSE: PAUL LAFFOLEY
NATIONALGALERIE im HAMBURGER BAHNHOFF, BERLIN
November 3,2011 thru March 4, 2012
Udo Kittelmann & Claudia Dichter
Publication by Verlag der Buchhandlung: Walter Konig.
Where can a secret still exist, if it’s exhibited in the public space of a museum? Does it lie in what is shown, in the conditions under which it originated, in the effect it has? It lies in all of the above. Secret Universe presents individual artistic positions that cannot be branded with any of the labels commonly used in the art world and do not follow a contemporary discourse, yet employ all of the strategies of contemporary art. With the series, secret universe, Hamburger Bahnhoff-Museum fur Gegenwart-Berlin is opening a project area in the museum’s eastern wing for a period of three years, which will present works of art that give insights into fascinating worlds of potentiality, as well as offering complex visual narratives.
Geochronmechane: The Time Machine from the Earth1990
Serigraph in colored inks, with corrections by the artist in colored pencils
Paper: 32 x 32 in. / Image: 28 x 28 in.
Comments: It is now just five years since the centennial celebration of the 1895 publication of the famous novel by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), The Time Machine. The subject matter of science fiction has long been recognized as a fruitful source of ad hoc research and development. However, it was not until the mid 1950’s (the period of the beginning of the maturity of our vision of technology) that this recognition became widespread and socially obvious. The concept of the Time Machine, in short, has been considered by its nature impossible and absurd.
MODELS OF FEASIBILITY
WESTFALISCHER KUNSTVEREIN
8 October – 23 December 2011
The project “Models of Feasibility” comprises an exhibition in the Westfälischer Kunstverein and a seminar at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster and will be accompanied by a series of public lectures. It deals with model designs in art, science and related disciplines. The main focus is on a parallel view with regard to the awareness-forming and productive skills of the respective models of presentation and narration. An attempt will be made to accommodate the differences in the respective technical terminology so that it is not about a dialogue between the different disciplines in the sense of an interdisciplinary approach but much more about the diverse possibilities for describing the world, which are each granted their own claim to truth in equal measures. Through a non-judgemental, parallel consideration of different models, the goal is to allow for greater tolerance of “different” truths, opening up a “dialogue of truths”.
Alice Pleasance Liddell1968
Oil, acrylic, ink, and vinyl lettering on canvas
73 1/2 x 49 1/2 in.
Subject: The Real Alice
Symbol Evocation: The Awakening of Sexuality
ALICE IN WONDERLAND organized by the TATE LIVERPOOL
Tate Liverpool. 4 November 2011 – 29 January 2012
MART, Rovereto . 25 February – 3 June 2012
Kunsthalle Hamburg 30 June – 30 September 2012
Lewis Carroll’s stories based around the figure of Alice are numbered among the most outstanding literary inventions and continue to exert a fascination to this day, having remained artistically original and innovative while retaining their broad appeal . . . Concealed behind the appearance of a children’s book lurks a complex puzzle of references, with flashes of philosophical profundity in the form of entertaining and short-lived episodes. In a playful and intelligible way, Carroll’s stories pose imoortant questions about individuality and self-knowledge, time and space, the relationship between fiction and reality, and history and story telling, as well as the function and authority of language. In this way, Alice and her adventures have become a metaphor for artistic engagement and the quest for meaning per se.
Tesseract House1978
Ink and letraset on board
51 x 33 in.
Subject: The Cosmic Mission of Architecture
Symbol Evocation: The Tesseract as the Key to the Mystery of the Universe
MONDES INVENTES, MONDES HABITES
MUDAM LUXEMBOURG
8 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
Presented in four of the museum’s galleries, this exhibition is concerned with the singularity of worlds created by artists who, in turn thinkers, engineers and architects, question the physical and organic mechanics that constitute our universe and the energetic and vital forces that cross it. The exhibition thus presents a voyage through the work of artists as David Altmejd, Alighiero e Boetti, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Vincent Ganivet, Theo Jansen, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Paul Laffoley, Isa Melsheimer, Miguel Palma, Panamarenko, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Nancy Rubins, Conrad Shawcross or Roman Signer.