2006 WITTE DE WITH, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
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Poledna’s art is informed by historical research, by archives and collections. In his work, he shares and develops his interest in the histories of avant-garde cinema, of modernism in architecture and design, of the crossovers between popular culture and art, and of the post-conceptualist critique of institutions. In recent years, his projects have taken the form of highly reduced filmic reconstructions that suggest ephemeral moments from 20th century culture, often popular culture, yet in a much broader sense, of modernity.
"Poledna's methodical and formal aesthetic research at the intersections of archive and subjectivity make the latter objects of a highly formalized art, without ever suppressing the tensions that are created between timelessness and historicity. Through an extreme reduction of the narrative moments to the structure of the loop and the systematic dashing of expectations of a realistic representation of history, he subjects himself to the accusation of dissolving the historical in the aesthetic. However, instead, Poledna's installations react to a crisis of the concept of history and the precarious status of historical "events", they emanate from this crisis." (Tom Holert)
© WITTE DE WITH, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
© WITTE DE WITH, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
© WITTE DE WITH, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
The publication Western Recording has been produced for this occasion by WdW Publishers and Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna (MUMOK), featuring an introduction by Matthias Michalka and Nicolaus Schafhausen, with essays by Alexander Alberro and Nora M. Alter, and Tom Holert (in Dutch, English and German).
ISBN 90-73362-67-9
Curated by: Renske Janssen
Artists: Mathias Poledna
(born 1965 in Vienna, Austria) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at MUMOK, Vienna (2003) and group shows Adorno at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2003), 3rd Berlin Biennial (2004), 20/20 Vision at Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam (2004), Liverpool Biennial (2004), Occupying Space, Sammlung Generali Foundation, Haus der Kunst, Munich / Witte de With, Rotterdam / Center for Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2005), Whitney Biennial, New York (2006).
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