home
> exhibition
> Reading Room
for the Working Artist
Reading Room for the Working Artist
From January 28 to March 18, 2005. Opening on January 28 at
4:00 pm
|
| |
Reading
Room for the Working Artist, the result of several
years spent collecting, selecting and assembling visual
and textual material related to modern art and culture,
straddles the boundaries of artistic and curatorial practice.
Inspired by Aleksandr Rodchenko’s 1925 Workers’
Club, created for the Exposition internationale des
Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de Paris,
Angela Grauerholz’s installation consists of reading
room furniture, a film projection and a series of twelve
books containing a wide range of documents (press cuttings,
letters, book covers, postcards, reproductions, and artworks).
It invokes the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total
artwork), the central artistic concept for most of the
artists and authors to which the installation refers –
Duchamp, Warhol, Borges, Benjamin, Malraux, Zweig, etc.
–, all of whom attempted to achieve a synthesis
bewteen art and life. Bringing together various aspects
of Angela Grauerholz’s practice, Reading Room for
the Working Artist recounts a somewhat utopian yet thoroughly
personal history of art and of artists. The installation
permits a retrospective look at the very substance of
the artist’s methodology, her artistic production,
and her reflective process. |
|
|
|
|
|
