Intervention - WUNDERLUST BERLIN
from: ArtSlant, Los Angeles, January 20th, 2008
by Nicholas Grider
on the show "WUNDERLUST - BERLIN"
at Paul Kopeikin Gallery
6150 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
from 12 January 2008 through 09 February 2008
A group show of fourteen artists from Berlin, Wunderlust Berlin showcases
a vibrant cross-section of work using a wide variety of media. Given the
large number of artists in the relatively small space, there isn’t
really a “dud” in the show. Guest curator Laurie De Chiara
has done an excellent job in compressing a wide survey into a small space
and all of the work is worth seeing, but a few pieces in particular deserve
special mention.
(...)
The other great and simple act of intervention in the show is [Peter
Freitag's] collages of identical photographs. A copy of the photograph
(or several copies) was cut up into perfectly round discs and glued over
the same spots where that part of the image would ordinarily fall. The
content of the photographs are mundane interiors, but the “bubbles”
of the overlaid copies produces the uncanny suggestion of thought bubbles.
Given that there are no people present, this process produces the wonderful
impression of simple, ordinary spaces dreaming of themselves.
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