303 Gallery presents our fourth one-person exhibition of work by Hans-Peter Feldmann. The German conceptualist will exhibit early and new collections of photographs, watercolors, objects and text based installations.
Hans Peter Feldmann’s appropriations of mass-produced images and objects capture the human compulsion to archive in an attempt to make sense of our surroundings. His particular sensibility produces works as personal and playful as “Pictures of car radios taken when good music is playing”, 1970’s to 1990’s, and a new sculpture of two collided matchbook trucks complete with a soy sauce oil spill. More socially critical work reflects, in part, on Feldmann’s national identity. His book, “1967-1993 Die Toten” reproduces images from newspapers of all of the lives lost due to the violence and terrorism that permeated contemporary German history.
In “Pictures from my collection of Amateur-photographs”, 2004,
Feldmann has re-photographed found black/white and color prints that give
us a glimpse into other people’s private lives while maintaining
the distance to contemplate our own lives. This processing of perceived
ideas and emotions is described in Feldmann’s catalogue with an
excerpt from Chuck Berry’s autobiography: “First, it happened;
second, I conceived what happened; third, I reproduced what I conceived;
and fourth you will conceive what I have produced.”
Hans Peter Feldmann (b. 1941) lives and works in Dusseldorf. In 2002-2003,
a comprehensive solo exhibition of Feldmann’s work traveled from
the the Fundacio Antoni Tapies in Barcelona to the Fotomuseum Winterthur
in Germany, the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, and the Museum
Ludwig, Cologne. A major catalogue “272 Pages” with an essay
by Helena Tatay was published to accompany the show. Hans Peter Feldmann
was also included in the “Utopia Station” exhibition at the
2003 Venice Biennale, and in “The Last Picture Show” at the
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, which will travel to the UCLA Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles, and MARCO in Spain. Currently, Feldmann’s monumental
photograph series “100 Years” is on view at P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center , Long Island City, New York through February 20, 2005.
303 Gallery represents the work of Doug Aitken, Valentin Carron, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ceal Floyer, Karel Funk, Maureen Gallace, Tim Gardner, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Rodney Graham, Mary Heilmann, Jeppe Hein, Jens Hoffmann, Larry Johnson, Matt Johnson, Jacob Kassay, Karen Kilimnik, Elad Lassry, Florian Maier-Aichen, Nick Mauss, Mike Nelson, Kristin Oppenheim, Eva Rothschild, Collier Schorr, Stephen Shore, Sue Williams, Jane and Louise Wilson,
303 Gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 am - 6 pm. For further information please visit us at www.303gallery.com or contact Cristian Alexa or Kathryn Erdman.