(Press Text): A Blind Man in His Garden is the fourth in a
series of pilot exhibitions organised by POOL, featuring works from the
collections of Maja Hoffmann and Michael Ringier.
The exhibition
will be curated by de Appel alumni Kris Dittel (b. 1983, Slovakia) and
Emma Panza (b. 1985, Italy) and mentored by Lorenzo Benedetti, Director
at de Appel arts center, Amsterdam.
How to deal with the impossibility of experiencing
an artwork or constellation of artworks to its fullest? If our
understanding of it is always fragmented, based on factual information, a
compressed image in a database or newspaper, lessons learnt and
forgotten, can we allow our sensations and intuitions to take over our
imagination?
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| Philippe Parreno |
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| Urs Fischer |
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| Thomas Hirschhorn |
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| Jim Shaw |
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| Jim Shaw (detail) |
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| Spartacus Chetwynd |
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| William Sasnal |
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| Sylvie Fleury |
(cont). A Blind Man in His Garden is an exhibition that
emphasizes subjective narratives, and puts forward a reading of an
artwork, or exhibition, based on personal associations, previous
knowledge and encounters. The title of the exhibition also refers to
Joel Sternfeld’s photograph, A Blind Man in His Garden, Homer, Alaska,
which suggests that there is a potential of artworks to trigger single
or multiple narratives. By shifting the attention away from the visual
experience of a lush rural landscape towards the imagination of vivid
sensations, probably felt by the depicted man, the artwork encompasses
numerous possibilities to experience it beyond its visual qualities.
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Blind Man in His Garden is a fable with an open ending, a hidden path
inside a network of mystical déjà vus, where the garden eventually
becomes a place where any act of imagination can find a space beyond its
visual connotation.
Featuring works by
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pawel Althamer, Danai Anesiadou,
Richard Artschwager, Melchiorre Bega, Walead Beshty, Monica Bonvicini,
Mark Bradford, Maurizio Cattelan, Valentin Carron, Spartacus Chetwynd,
Silvie Defraoui, Trisha Donnelly, Urs Fischer, Peter Fischli/David
Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Katharina Grosse, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer,
Mike Kelley, Ragnar Kjartansson, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, Seth
Price, De Rijke/De Rooij, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jim Shaw, Slavs and Tatars,
Christopher Williams.
With contributions by Dina Danish and Styrmir Örn Gumundsson
