HOMMAGE AN...
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
KARIN URLIKE SOIKA
Hommage an Shirley Horn
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):
SOPHIE RANK
Hommage an José de Ribera
und die Epoche der Romanik
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.