Productive Image Interference:
Sigmar Polke and Artistic Perspectives Today
Trevor Paglen Seth Price Sigmar Polke Max Schulze Avery Singer Camille Henrot Raphael Hefti Phoebe Collings- James
9783954764259
238 pages
Distanz Verlag Gmbh Llc
Overview
The Pioneer of Image InterferenceWe have long lived with the awareness that we cannot trust our eyes—that pictures, whether manufactured or technically generated, do not so much depict reality as rather play a key role in shaping it, transmission errors, losses of quality, hacks, and other disruptions included. Studying at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1960s, Sigmar Polke (b. Oels, Lower Silesia, 1941; d. Cologne, 2010) soon took an interest in the mass-media imagery of his time. The replication and adulteration, transformation and recoding of these images became the motif of his raster-dot paintings and an early trademark of his art. Like Sigmar Polke before them, a generation of contemporary artists now finds inspiration in image interference. To mark his 80th birthday, the Anna Polke Foundation collaborates with Kunsthalle Dusseldorf to realize an exhibition curated by Kathrin Barutzki and Nelly Gawellek (both Anna Polke Foundation) with Gregor Jansen (Kunsthalle Dusseldorf). Titled Productive Image Interference, it presents Polke's works in dialogue with contributions by Kerstin Brätsch, Phoebe Collings- James, Raphael Hefti, Camille Henrot, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Max Schulze, and Avery Singer. The catalogue is the first book dedicated to an in-depth discussion of a central aspect of Polke's oeuvre, drawing connections to contemporary art production. The visual practice of appropriating and sampling existing images with their cultural and political implications is discussed in essays by Kathrin Barutzki, Katharina Bruns, Nelly Gawellek, Alicia Holthausen, Gregor Jansen, Charlotte Lang, Janice Mitchell, and Sophia Stang. In conversations between Avery Singer and Albert Oehlen as well as Raphael Hefti and Bice Curiger, through work encounters and contributions created especially for the book by the participating artists, a panorama opens up starting from Polke's point of view paired with contemporary perspectives by the other artists to create a survey of the engagement with the visual and historic contexts that shape our perspective on the world.
Author Bio
Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Pace New York (540 West 25th Street) and the Pace London.Seth Price is a New York-based multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist. He lives and works in New York City. Polish born Sigamr Polke, was a German painter and photographer. He studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1960s where he soon took an interest in the mass-media imagery of his time. The replication and adulteration, transformation and recoding of these images became the motif of his raster-dot paintings and an early trademark of his art. Max Schulze studied free art/ painting at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts and is now an associate editor of the art magazine schwarzweiss-eins/-zwei/-drei/-vier in Dusseldorf. Avery Singer is an American artist known for creating digitally assisted paintings created through 3D modeling software and computer-controlled airbrushing. Her paintings are displayed in the public collections of the Museum Ludwig, Stedelijk Museum, MoMA, The Whitney Museum and the Hammer Museum. Camille Henrot is a French artist who lives and works in Paris and New York. Her work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Arken Museum of Modern Art and the White Columns.
Raphael Hefti, born in Switzerland, originally worked in electronics, before moving on to study industrial design, photography, and art. Phoebe Collings- James is a visual artist and a fashion model. She was born in London and now lives and works in New York.
