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Michael
Kunze, Das Mohnfeld unterwandert die Markierung ERROR,
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exhibition "trouble with fantasy" presents a selected
array of fantastic worlds by ten artists in completely different
media: interactive computer games, installations and videos,
and also the traditional genres painting and drawing. Participating
in the exhibition are Tobias Bernstrup, Armin Boehm, Cao Fei,
Beate Geissler/Oliver Sann, Felix Stephan Huber, Kerstin Kartscher,
Michael Kunze, Markus Selg and Katerina Vincourová.
The stage-like landscapes and interiors or hermetic architectures
and labyrinthine buildings, which often form the scenery of
computer games, could scarcely have come about if art had
not already invented and developed the representation of space.
Conversely, the artistic output of a younger generation today
reflects a partly playful, partly critical reception of computer-generated
virtual worlds. After all, "computer games could hardly
draw on a vaster heritage – it can base its scenes on
almost our entire cultural history including its fantasies
and nightmares."1
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For
example, Markus Selg creates scenes you can walk into using
large-format digital prints representing a compressed world
full of symbols and signs between the past and future. Michael
Kunze's composite paintings show mysteriously hermetic architectures
and dramatic scenery with such ingenious perspectives that different
combinations of picture panels arise. Armin Boehm's large format
"Paintball" paintings were inspired by the tournament
game Gotcha. Conversely, the new video "Return to Veste
Rosenberg" by Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann shows many
fantastic figures and actions that directly encourage one to
imagine various fantasy adventures in the mediaeval fortress.
The reality of a Chinese city provides the setting for the imaginatively
costumed protagonists of Cao Fei's video "Cosplayers",
a docu-drama set in the seedier parts of the city. Tobias Bernstrup
and Felix Stephan Huber show new, interactive computer games
as space-grabbing installations. Whereas in Bernstrup's work
electronic technology of a futuristic high-speed lift has taken
control, Huber has made Hitler's former HQ bunker, the Wolfsschanze,
the fitting backdrop for explosive action, but allows escape
to supposedly more peaceful levels. While computer games naturally
require interaction to experience the game, painting, videos
and drawings activate the perception of the viewer in completely
different ways. The exhibition "trouble with fantasy"
itself becomes a playful display that provides different imaginary
worlds in each room of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg.
1
Andreas Rosenfelder: Unsere Welt im Zugriff der Konsole, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung vom 20.August 2005, Nr. 193, S. 35
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Armin
Boehm, Paintball orange, 2001
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Participating
artists: |
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Tobias
Bernstrup
born in 1970 in Göteborg, lives and works in New
York und Stockholm |
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Armin
Boehm
born in 1972 in Aachen, lives and works in Berlin |
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Cao
Fei
born in 1978 in Guangzhou (China), lives and works in
Guangzhou |
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Beate
Geissler/Oliver Sann
born in 1970 in Neuendettelsau/1968 in Düsseldorf,
live and work in Cologne |
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Felix
Stephan Huber
born in 1955 in Zurich, lives and works in Berlin |
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Kerstin
Kartscher
born in 1966 in Nuremberg, lives and works in London |
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Michael
Kunze
born in 1961 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin |
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Markus
Selg
born in 1974 in Singen, lives and works in Berlin |
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Katerina
Vincourová
born
in 1968 in Prague, lives and works in Prague |
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A
catalogue and accompanying events with talks with artists,
lectures, thematic guided tours, workshops are being prepared
for the exhibition.
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