STURM UND DRANG EXHIBITION

Julien Audebert, Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler, Lisa Tan

Galerie Kamm, Berlin
October 25 - December 20, 2008




01. Installation view




02. Lisa Tan, Dom Letter, 2008, cprint in artist's frame




03. Lisa Tan, All the Times the Words Bore, Bores, Bored, Boring and Boredom Appear in Alberto Moravia’s Boredom,
2008, archival ink on paper and c-print bookmark in artist's frame




04. (Detail image) All the Times the Words Bore, Bores, Bored, Boring and Boredom Appear in Alberto Moravia’s Boredom




05. Lisa Tan, Letter Never to Arrive, 2008, cprint in artist's frame



DESCRIPTION

Included in this exhibition are pieces from a series of counting words prints. An inventory of words, play off of the titles of the books and are paired up with a 4 x 6 inch photograph, leaning on the lower left corner of the frame.
From the press release:

“Sourcing from texts and novels, the artists translate written originals in many different ways—culturally, media-based, using language, and from one genre into another. In doing so they focus on the significance of the individual—with regard to himself and ‘others’ as a being influenced by emotions and intellect. In the course of this ‘discovery of the individual’ pursued by ‘Sturm und Drang’ authors in the 18th century, artists question the link between the particular text content and its aesthetic and formal representation…"