[rohrpost] ARTISTS TALK on Tuesday

[Sparwasser HQ]

Artists talk

on Tuesday, the 10. September,
at 7 PM

with
Morten Schelde and =00Wolf von Kries

at
Sparwasser HQ
Offensive f=FCr zeitgen=F6ssische Kunst und Kommunikation
Torstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin
Telefon +49 30 21803001 / 01796705859
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http://www.sparwasserhq.de
mail@sparwasserhq.de



   Morten Schelde:

I am in my apartment trying to write a text on my work. In the 
background, the first Star Trek movie is running. A little while ago, 
I was watching CNN=92s preparations for the upcoming september 11. 
Outside my open window was just a minute ago the sounds of a 
weddingparty going on at the church across the street, playing the 
wedding march and some songs of Nena and Joe Cocker.

These clashes of different realities is very much what my work is 
about.  I like working with a diversity of pictures, collecting and 
combining them. I am interested in the psychological and emotional 
impact they have on me, and in the way pictures are dealt with in the 
media and in art. How do we encounter them as individuals?
In general, I am interested in producing images reflecting an 
individual voice, while trying to find underlying structures of what 
ties us together in communities and larger groups.

Specifically, I have chosen drawing as my primary medium. I started 
working with drawings because I like the slowliness and simplicity of 
the process, and chose to work mostly  monochromatic after having 
tried out doing fullcolour drawings...which turned out to look like 
the work of 10 kindergarden-kids. Working in just one colour is to me 
about emphasising the drawing as surface, and it gives me the 
possibility to work with shifts of ambiences between the individual 
drawings. Like the differences between CNN, Nena and Joe Cocker.
M.S. Berlin 8/9-2002              http://www.mortenschelde.dk


  =00 =00Wolf von Kries:

Bei den hier vorgestellten Arbeiten handelt es sich zumeist um 
ortspezifische Interventionen, in denen die Funktionsweisen sozialer, 
=F6konomischer kultureller Strukturen hinterfragt werden. Dabei werden 
bestehende Mechanismen oder Objekte durch kleine Eingriffe isoliert, 
konzentriert oder simuliert und erhalten so eine von der 
herk=F6mmlichen Anwendung abgehobene Bedeutungsebene, die seine 
=46unktion zugleich aufl=F6st und best=E4tigt.
Wolf von Kries lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Most of the presented works are site-specific interventions that 
question in one way or the other the functioning of our social, 
economical or cultural structures. They consist of little 
manipulations of existing mechanisms or objects, which are either 
isolated, concentrated or simulated thus adding a meaning beyond its 
original function, which it affirms and dissolves at the same time.
Wolf von Kries lives and works in Berlin.








"structures", letzte Tag ist/ last day is 21. September

"the island and the aeroplane", Er=F6ffnung am/ opening on 26. September

teilnahme am / participating in art forum berlin 2002, 26. - 30. September

Sparwasser HQ is supported by DCA (Danish Contemporary Art Foundation)