June 2001
New Aquisitions Photography, Video, Mixed Media Daimler Contemporary
Doug Aitken, Ian Anüll, Cor Dera, Walter Giers, Isabell Heimerdinger, Thomas Locher, François Morellet, Eva Maria Reiner, Pietro Sanguineti, Roman Signer, Georg Winter
Daimler Contemporary
16 June - 21 October 2001
Doug Aitken, Francois Morellet, Georg Winter
Cor Dera
Pietro Sanguineti
(now), slide light-box
The current exhibition explores some new aspects of media art for the collection. It tracks and interprets important lines of development in contemporary photographic, video and installation art.
There are acquisitions from the 90s in the form of two neon works by François Morellet, a picture object by Thomas Locher, an audio work by Walter Giers and Pietro Sanguineti's light-mirror object "showtime". There was already a group of works by Sanguineti in the Daimler Art Collection, and this is now complemented with an early textual work, new examples of his light-boxes and some videos, all clearly identifying the phases this young Berlin artist's work has passed through.
Video and photography as conceptual pictorial form
We are showing video works by two Swiss artists, Roman Signer and Ian Annüll. Both artists have made major contributions to video as a conceptual pictorial medium in the border areas between sculpture, moving images and three-dimensional action. Doug Aitken's and Isabell Heimerdinger's photographic and video works also come into this category. The Dutch artist Cor Dera's serial photographic works address a developing "new nature" that has emerged since the genetic engineering revolution. Eva Maria Reiner's multi-part, sewn textile reliefs turn the physiognomy and scale of the human body into abstract pictorial landscapes.