Homage to...
Homage to... is an installation project
that examines the sources of artistic inspiration. I
conceived and executed it on the occasion of Kunst in Sendling
2006 (October 19 - 22, 2006, Munich, Germany, www.kunstinsendling.de).
The installation's dimension varies in context, at Kunst
in Sendling it ws approximately 40 square meters.
Abstract - Participants - Visitors - Theory
Abstract
Usually artists present "finished" works to their
audience, sometimes with no traces at all of the preceding creative
process. The art work thus appears to be detached, disconnected
from the web of thoughts and feelings, the very matrix that brought
it into existence. Homage to... is a joint installation project
of various artists that are allowing insights into an artist's
creative process and thus makes the thought processes behind
artwork tangible.
Participants
Participation was open all artists of Kunst in Sendling, but
I also invited some my close artist friends and colleagues. After
intensive correspondence and several project meetings the following
participants emerged (with the person rendered homage to in parenthesis):
Andreas P. Schulz (Otto
Dreßler)
Barbara Keil (Maria Weiß)
Elena Ilina (Friedrich
Hölderlin)
Hermann Posch (Emanuel
Swedenborg)
James Blackforest (Robert
Lax)
Karin Ulrike Soika (Shirley
Horn)
Kurt Huber (Ovid)
Sophie Rank (José de
Ribera und die Epoche der Romanik)
Wolfgang End (Van
Gogh)
Wolfgang Z. Keller (Joseph
Beuys)
Please find photos of the installation project as well as all
artist statements here.
Interacting with Visitors
We invited all visitors to the installation Hommage to... also
to reflect upon the sources of their inspiration and to communicate
them to us. Many of them cooperated and you can find visitors'
statements here.
Theory
In the project's context several texts were published: "Homage
to..." by myself and "Homage" by
Stefan Schmid, Munich.
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