KONRAD MÜHE UND GABRIEL ROSSELL SANTILLÁN »SEIFENBLASEN UND ANDERE LÜGENMÄRCHEN«

In »Seifenblasen und andere Lügenmärchen« (“Soap
Bubbles and Other Cock-and-Bull Stories“), Konrad Mühe
and Gabriel Rossell Santillán are exploring the interplay
between real and fictitious stories as well as the role of
physicality in their respective medium. Both artists are
playing with the documentary qualities of the original
material and its re-assembled editions. Gabriel Rossell
Santillán transfers the scientific idea of a place into an
installation with photographs that take up on the principles
of landscape art in photography. Konrad Mühe constructs
another encounter with his father Ulrich Mühe based on
clips from his films and television appearances. In these
fictitious talks and debates, probable answers to the artist’s
ongoing questions are being negotiated. Both artists pick up
the topic of physicality in some of their works by choosing
the material they used to create them – for instance when
Mühe projects the video through a diagonally arranged glass
plate onto a wooden board which is leaning against it in
»Weißglas« (“White Glass“).»Dschungel, Tempel,
Pyramiden, Kathedralen, Hochhäuser« (“Jungles, Temples,
Pyramids, Cathedrals, Tower Blocks“) by Rossell Santillán
consists of two photographs embedded into a steel frame.
Weight and notion featured in the motif of the picture are
transferred onto the rusting metal. Connecting these works
in the gallery was a result of long debates and mutual
inspiration. The echo leads to the creation of new contexts.

STUTTGART, 8. April 2011

Eröffnung/ Opening: Freitag/ Friday, den 8. April 2011,
19.00 bis 21.00 Uhr
Dauer der Ausstellung/ On view: bis/ untill 14. Mai 2011
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening Hors: Dienstag bis Freitag/
Tuesday through Friday von/ from 13.00 bis/ to 18.00 Uhr,
Samstag von/ Saturday from 11.00 bis/ untill 16.00 Uhr,
u.n.V.