PORTFOLIO - Klaus Scherübel, The Artist at Work
In his series Untitled (The Artist at Work), Klaus Scherübel presents a paradoxical system of references to myths and phantasms of modernism and to descriptive contexts of current art.
To take the title or the visual appearance as a starting point already implies taking part in a discourse that is subverted by the work itself. Many aspects suggest that the work is an ironic celebration of a kind of absence that can be completed only by the viewer’s imagination. What we see is an imbroglio of cultural texts that does not allow the viewer to escape to any secure ground despite the reflection on its conditions.
Untitled (The Artist at Work) # 7, colour print, caption, variable size, 2000. Photo: Marylène Negro.
© Klaus Scherübel
Untitled (The Artist at Work) # 12, colour print, caption, variable size, 2004. Photo: Emmanuelle Léonard.
© Klaus Scherübel
Untitled (The Artist at Work) # 8, colour print, caption, variable size, 2002. Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger.
© Klaus Scherübel
Untitled (The Artist at Work) # 2, colour print, caption, variable size, 1998. Photo: Marylène Negro. Courtesy of Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg.
© Klaus Scherübel
Untitled (The Artist at Work) # 9, colour print, overhead projector, chairs, caption on wall label, variable size, 2002/2004. Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger. Installation shot at Art Speak Gallery: Jenn Laing.
© Klaus Scherübel
La rédaction · CV65 · Wednesday, 01 September 2004 00:00
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