Souvenir: transfert imaginaire [Mazkarot]
An International Traveling Exhibition
Curated by Jutta Saum
04.09.08 - 04.10.08
Participanting Artists: Germany > Dorotee Bouchard, Julia Buttelmann, Coscun Demirok, Abdehadi El Aidi, Ahmed Ibrahim, Gregor kleine-Wilde, Lena Kuntze, Adolph Lechtenberg, Bernd Lieven, Gizela Happe-Stroex, Felicitas Lensing-Hebben, Julia Lohmann, Elisabeth Luchesi, Nucole Morello, Edith Oellers, Thomas Reiring, Fernand Roda, Joachim Stellecker, Ulruke Zimmermann, Andrea Kuster, Olga Subbotina.
Russia > Viktor Satschiwko, Sergeij Baranow, Valentin Schdanov, Anastasia Gontscharowa, Jurij Zhrkow, Oleg Ampilogow.
Israel > Avraham Eilat, Zohar Nir-Amitin, Yael Balaban, Srul Wertman, Yaacov Hefetz, Yehuda Yatsiv, Zohar Cohen, Elina Rom-Cohen, Jeremia Adani
"Generally souvenirs are small handy things from remote places. Their value of practical usage is modest, but considered from an idealistical point of view its worth is endless. The value given them by their owner is their only one. In a strange manner souvenirs associate memories with an object....
The exhibition "souvenir transfert imaginaire" doesn't present a simple collection of souvenirs. It shows object art, and „souvenir” is the topic. The artists accepted an invitation to fill a cardboard box of determined size with a multiple refering to this topics. It should be an object, because a souvenir is something what you can touch and take in your hands. In this context I reflected if it could be some more as an accidental coincidence that object art appears more or less at the same time – namely at the beginning of twentieth century – like souvenirs came out on the market as an industrial mass product.
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Art-objetcs become metaphors for an experienced intrinsic existence, which couldn´t be characterized before. Upon the tangible object accumulate ideas, which do no longer circle around the object itself, but dig in memories. Also souvenirs exhibit this paradoxical ambiguity, to be object and reference at the same time..."
-- Jutta Saum, curator,
excerpts from the exhibition catalogue
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