13-11-2009

30-01-2010

Germany, Berlin
Bourouina Gallery Charlottenstr.1-2 10969 Berlin

Posted by: bourouina-gallery

Category: Exhibition

Field: Visual arts

Source www.bourouina.com

EXHIBITION OPENING

ANDY WAUMAN: THE QUOTA COPIES

FR 13.11.09, 18-21h

A pack of black letters. They re-form themselves over and over, but the message stays the same: Soul Killers Don't Quit and Hate Delivers Majority. The letters are free when they find a new form. In their existence in the media machinery, those very Soul killers, they have to copy apparent truth. But what is truth anyways? Can a copy possibly be more authentic, than the assumed original? Are we still aware of authentic meanings in a society manaced by distorted messages?
Andy Wauman tackles these very issues. He is a man of both, many and few words: Language figures prominently in his work – his works „consists“ of language so to speak– but word are always used used moderately, yet emphatically. His works maintain a clear and simple nature, without becoming minimalistic. His use of colour is reduced to the essential: black and white are pretty much the only colours available in Wauman's World. In this polarisation, the opposites „art“ and „language“ can develop the best. Wauman focuses on playing with words and symbols that have been overused and missused in media and popular culture. He recycles terminological concepts, creates new concepts and leads us back to original meanings.
The three pins in the middle corridor are oversized versions of those buttons that became symbols of self-expression and identity, political statement and revolt. The zone of daily routine that steals a part of our freedom - the Rob Zone, the world simulated by the media: Almost Real, or the 4th Reich, the dictatorship of consumption in that we find ourselves already in, typified by a bar code.
Waumans developes his own poetical language, a language, that categorically spoken probably could be best described as post-broken English: Dance Wires Rose Thorns. Wauman, who calles himself a „poetical terrorist“, reanimates through his associative word games the power of the ordinary and ubiquitous. Invoking the rediscovery of social energy, freedom and anarchy. Confrontated with Waumans fragmented and pointed words and haikus, the viewer shall question his own values and presupposed ideas to then look into existing concepts, in a search for true authenticity.


For more information, please visit:
www.andywauman.com
www.bourouina.com

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