10 May 2009

Kunstverein Hannover presents Catalogues of Simon Dybbroe Møller and João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva now available

The Kunstverein Hannover is pleased to announce the release of two catalogues accompanying the current exhibitions which continue through May 17, 2009:


Simon Dybbroe Møller
Kompendium
with texts by Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Matthew Brannon, Brian O'Connell, Sam Frank, Christian Höller, Peter Laugesen, Thomas Meinecke, Katja Schroeder, Lumi Tan, René Zechlin
29,7 x 21cm / 140 pages / ill. / German and English / published by Sternberg Press
ISBN 978-1-933128-68-9
25 € / members 20 €

Simon Dybbroe Møller subjects twentieth-century avant-garde to a subjective revision: His installations, collages, films, and sculptures play with works of Minimal and Concept Art as well as Constructivism, De Stijl or the Bauhaus and transform their conceptual strategies into narrations that are as sentimental as they are analytical.

The works are reflections of an eye-twinkling modernism that oscillate between construed and authentic art history, between original and reproduction and transfer the avant-garde of the past into a weave comprising wondrous coincidences, hidden secrets, and subjective commentaries.
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João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
About the Presence of Things
with texts by René Zechlin and Natxo Checca
14,8 x 21cm / 48 pages / ill. / German and English
ISBN 978-3-934421-17-2
12 € / members 8 €

The short films, sculptures, and installations of the Portuguese artist duo João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva move in the area between myth and science, and they tell of nature's magic and mysteries.

The spatial combination and juxtaposition of documentaries dealing with simple, quasi scientific experiments, observations on nature, short wondrous narrations and extrasensory phenomena challenges the usual perception of the world and moves in metaphysical dimensions.
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The catalogues can be ordered:

via email  mail@kunstverein-hannover.de
via fax     +49 511 1699278-278
via mail    Kunstverein Hannover, Sophienstraße 2, D-30159 Hannover, Germany