Die Galerie Reinhard Hauff freut sich mit inside/outside, outside/inside, die achte Einzelausstellung des in Berlin lebenden Künstlers Thomas Locher (*1956) ankündigen zu dürfen.
HANG
Das Hängen ist nicht abgeschlossen, die Schrifttafeln können immer wieder neu im Bildraum platziert werden. Sie sind angehängt, ihre Bedeutung ist angehängt.
PLASTIZITÄT/PLASTICITY
Das Subjekt erhält seine eigene Form, aber niemals passiv – es formt das, wodurch es geformt wird (Catherine Malabou, Philosophie Magazin 01/2015, S. 70).
LUMPEN
Der Lumpen sind ein textiler Rohstoff und eine politische Kategorie. Brecht setzt den Verweis auf Lumpen als Störung des bürgerlichen Theaters ein.
ZIEGELSTEINE/BRICKS
Ziegelsteine sind zusammengesetzte Steine, die zugleich in der Zusammensetzung – als Mauer oder Bauwerk – wirken. Ihre Haptik ergibt sich durch das Gewebe, das Muster, die Textur.
TOUCH
And there is a charge, a very large charge,
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood
(Lady Lazarus (Ariel), Sylvia Plath, 1962)
FRAME
Der Rahmen ist Grenze und Rand. Er unterscheidet zwischen Innen und Außen, zwischen Oben und Unten, zwischen Seiten, Tiefen und der Zeit. Und stellt mir die Frage: was diese Grenze ausmacht … für mich und für andere?
GRID
The grid's mythic power is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism (or sometimes science, or logic) while at the same time it provides us with a release into belief (or illusion, or fiction). The work of Reinhardt or Agnes Martin would be instances of this power. And one of the important sources of this power is the way the grid is, as I said before, so stridently modern to look at, seeming to have left no place of refuge, no room on the face of it, for vestiges of the nineteenth century to hide (Rosalind Krauss, Grids, October, Vol. 9, Summer, 1979, p. 50-64.)
Thomas Locher (*1956 in Munderkingen, Deutschland) lebt und arbeitet in Berlin, Deutschland. Er ist Künstler und seit 2017 Rektor der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. Seine Text-Bild-Kompositionen und die raumgreifenden Wandarbeiten, Gestelle und Installationen zählen zu einer Praxis der Dekonstruktion und des Konzeptualismus, insbesondere des Neo-Konzepts und der Kontext-Kunst; sie verstehen sich explizit als Beiträge eines erweiterten Verständnisses der Institutionskritik. Hierfür stehen insbesondere Arbeiten zu den Grundrechten im Grundgesetz oder auch den Menschenrechten, zu Fragen von Öffentlichkeit, Tausch und Gabe sowie Gemeinschaft und grammatikalischer Ordnungen. Dabei zeigen Supplements, der Einsatz ergänzender, erweiternder und subvertierender Zusätze, und Sprache zum einen auf die Unmöglichkeit und Möglichkeit der Repräsentation. Zum anderen bestehen die Montagen auf eine Unabgeschlossenheit. Die Arbeiten von Thomas Locher wurden weltweit in zahlreichen Institutionen ausgestellt und sind in öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen wie unter anderem der des Museum of Modern Art, New York, des Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlung München, der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, des Kunstmuseum Stuttgart oder des mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien vertreten. Aktuelle Ausstellungsprojekte umfassen u.a. „Homo Oeconomicus“, Secession Wien (2013), „Post-Information“, Silberkuppe Berlin (2015) und „To expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer – Künstlerische Praktiken um 1990“, mumok Wien (2015). Locher lehrte international an Kunstakademien, Fachhochschulen und Universitäten (u.a. Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Zeppelin-Universität und Technische Universität Wien) und war von 2008 bis 2016 Professor an der Königlich Dänischen Kunstakademie in Kopenhagen (Text: Thomas Locher).
Zum Soft Openingladen wir Sie herzlich am Freitag, den 13. November 2020, von 14 bis 21 Uhr ein.
Galerie Reinhard Hauff is pleased to present inside/outside, outside/inside, the eighth solo show by the Berlin artist Thomas Locher (*1956).
HANGING
The hanging is not complete. The panels can always be repositioned in the picture space. They are attached. Their meaning is attached.
PLASTICITY
The Subject acquires its own form, but never passively – it forms that which forms it (Catherine Malabou, Philosophie Magazin 01/2015, p. 70.)
RAGS
Rags are textile raw material and a political category of cast-offs. Brecht uses the reference to rags as a disruption of bourgeois theatre.
BRICKS
Bricks are combination of stones, which function through their composition as wall or building. Their haptics result from the fabric, the pattern, the texture.
TOUCH
And there is a charge, a very large charge,
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood
(Lady Lazarus (Ariel), Sylvia Plath, 1962)
FRAME
The frame is border and edge. It differentiates between inside and outside, between above and below, between sides, depths and time. And asks me: What defines this limit, for me and for others?
GRID
The grid's mythic power is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism (or sometimes science, or logic) while at the same time it provides us with a release into belief (or illusion, or fiction). The work of Reinhardt or Agnes Martin would be instances of this power. And one of the important sources of this power is the way the grid is, as I said before, so stridently modern to look at, seeming to have left no place of refuge, no room on the face of it, for vestiges of the nineteenth century to hide (Rosalind Krauss, Grids, October, Vol. 9, Summer, 1979, p. 50-64.)
Thomas Locher (*1956 in Munderkingen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is an artist and since 2017 Rector of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. His text image compoositions and the expansive wall works, frames and Installations belong to an artistic practice of Deconstruction and Conceptualism, particularly Neo-Conceptualism and Context Art and are explicitly to be understood as contributions to a more comprehensive understanding of institutional critique. In particular there are works about Fundamental Rights as treated in the Constitution or the Human Rights Conventions, on questions relating to the public sphere, exchange and gifts as well as collective community and grammatical order. Supplements, the use of supplementary, broadening and subverting additions and language, on the one hand, point to the impossibility and possibility of representation. On the other hand, the montages insist on a state of incompleteness. Thomas Lochers works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous institutions and are represented in public and private museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart or the mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna. Current exhibition projects include among others "Homo Oeconomicus", Secession Wien (2013), "Post-Information", Silberkuppe Berlin (2015) and "To expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer – Künstlerische Praktiken um 1990", mumok Vienna (2015). Locher has taught at national and international art academies, technical colleges and universities such as the Merz Akademie Stuttgart, the Zeppelin-Universität and Technische Universität Vienna, and he was Professor at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen from 2008 to 2016 (text: Thomas Locher, translation to English: Elisabeth Hauff.)
We cordially invite you to the soft opening on Friday, November 13th, 2020 from 2 to 9 pm.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
Exhibition view: Thomas Locher. inside/outside, outside/inside, 2020, photo: Bernhard Kahrmann.
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