Paul Pfeiffer
09 May - 01 Oct 2011
PAUL PFEIFFER
9 May - 1 October, 2011
The almost 30 exhibited video and sound installations, sculptures and photographs provide an extensive insight into the oeuvre of the US-American artist from 1998 to today. Paul Pfeiffer’s artworks focus on the phenomenon of ‘after-images’ of pictures that have spread through the mass media, pictures that are rooted in the collective memory of our global media-dependent society.
In his videos and photographs, such as The Long Count, 2002, or 24 Landscapes, 2000/2008 he manipulates ‘found’ images of well-known figures such as Mohammed Ali or Marilyn Monroe (as shown here). He achieves impressive results using techniques such as isolation, digital erasure, repetition and compression. Other works give equal attention to pop icon Michael Jackson or the basket ball player Larry Johnson. He often raises the content of these images to another level, ultimately succeeding in initiating a ‘mental film’ in the viewer, i.e. a train of thought in which his artworks merge with the images from the collective memory that are in the viewer’s mind. Pfeiffer investigates the role and function of images from ‘popular culture’ of the recent past in relationship to the (re-)construction of history at the social and personal levels.
Paul Pfeiffer (*1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii) lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1987 and his MFA from Hunter College in New York City in 1994. From 1997-1998 he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
He has been dedicated a number of solo exhibitions in national and international museums, e.g. in 2001 at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 2003 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, in 2004 at the K 21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2007 at The Project, New York, in 2008 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) in Spain, and in 2009 at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
A catalog with articles by Cornelia Gockel, Ingvild Goetz, Paul Pfeiffer/Hal Foster, Stephan Urbaschek, and Leo Lencsés/Katharina Vossenkuhl (German/English) accompanies the show.
9 May - 1 October, 2011
The almost 30 exhibited video and sound installations, sculptures and photographs provide an extensive insight into the oeuvre of the US-American artist from 1998 to today. Paul Pfeiffer’s artworks focus on the phenomenon of ‘after-images’ of pictures that have spread through the mass media, pictures that are rooted in the collective memory of our global media-dependent society.
In his videos and photographs, such as The Long Count, 2002, or 24 Landscapes, 2000/2008 he manipulates ‘found’ images of well-known figures such as Mohammed Ali or Marilyn Monroe (as shown here). He achieves impressive results using techniques such as isolation, digital erasure, repetition and compression. Other works give equal attention to pop icon Michael Jackson or the basket ball player Larry Johnson. He often raises the content of these images to another level, ultimately succeeding in initiating a ‘mental film’ in the viewer, i.e. a train of thought in which his artworks merge with the images from the collective memory that are in the viewer’s mind. Pfeiffer investigates the role and function of images from ‘popular culture’ of the recent past in relationship to the (re-)construction of history at the social and personal levels.
Paul Pfeiffer (*1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii) lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1987 and his MFA from Hunter College in New York City in 1994. From 1997-1998 he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
He has been dedicated a number of solo exhibitions in national and international museums, e.g. in 2001 at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 2003 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, in 2004 at the K 21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2007 at The Project, New York, in 2008 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) in Spain, and in 2009 at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
A catalog with articles by Cornelia Gockel, Ingvild Goetz, Paul Pfeiffer/Hal Foster, Stephan Urbaschek, and Leo Lencsés/Katharina Vossenkuhl (German/English) accompanies the show.