Orientalists
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On the pitfalls of the precalibrated gaze. Reproductions of anthologies on the art of the “Orientalists” dating from the turn of the 19th to 20st century are again reproduced in parts, enlarged, some of them rasterized, and reassembled in b/w photo-copies. Are we under the curse of the sated gaze, or can the overtones of things not yet archived make themselves heard above the resonance of the remembered, however strong it may be ?
 Installation view, Seeing is Remembering, Stedefreund, 2011 Orientalist #01 (b.o. Alma-Tadema), 2011, laser-copies (s/w), 90 x 60 cm, framed
 Installation view, Seeing is Remembering, Stedefreund, 2011 Orientalist #09 (b.o. Müller), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), wallpaper glue, 180 x 110 cm
 Orientalist #01 (b.o. Alma-Tadema), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #02 (b.o. Wilda), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #03 (b.o. Speyer), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #04 (b.o. Deutsch), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #05 (b.o. Deutsch), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #06 (b.o. Deutsch), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #07 (b.o. Kosler), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #08 (b.o. Müller), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #09 (b.o. Müller), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable
 Orientalist #10 (nach Müller), 2011, laser-copies (b/w), size variable |