Indissoluble Art Dreams. On the borders and limits of communication

Wednesday, 4 May 2011, Salon Populaire, Berlin, 20:00
Indissoluble Art Dreams. On the borders and limits of communication
Catalogue presentation and talk between Inke Arns, Barbara Breitenfellner and Ute Vorkoeper

Barbara Breitenfellner’s artistic practice bears witness to the fact that we live in a culture of ubiquitous imagery. The artist’s uncanny installations and collages derive from the observation that ‘(oneiric) images give rise to reality – a reality full of holes, corners and recesses’ (Jens Emil Sennewald). Over the past few years Breitenfellner has been collecting a series of dreams on art, making art, being an artist and exhibiting, which she put down in writing. For her first solo exhibition in a public gallery in Germany, entited Dream of an Exhibition (www.hmkv.de, until June 5, 2011), she selected two dreams, which were implemented as large-scale installations. In the first of the two dreams, ‘1 museum floor covered with 1 zigzag carpet (and) a fat sports car’ are said to play an important role, while the second dream was recorded as follows: ‘For days on end, Beuys made a performance in 1 space. Someone else (?) climbed on 1 lying gorilla with 1 fur on a platform – a rack that was moving upwards. In the end Beuys jumped from the rack like a winner in a circus.’ But what happens when dream memories and protocols become a reality in three-dimensional space? Where is a translation possible, where will it necessarily fail? The discussion will deal with the borders and limits of communication. A slideshow of the exhibition at HMKV and a screening of Kathrin Resetarits’s short film Ägypten (1996, 10 min.) will frame the conversation.

The catalogue published on the occasion of the exbition Barbara Breitenfellner: Dream of an Exhibition (Berlin: Revolver by Vice Versa Publishing, 2011), with texts by Inke Arns and Ute Vorkoeper, 72 pages (40 colour pages), will be available for 15,00 €.

Salon Populaire, Berlin, 4 May 2011, 20:00
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