Peter Friedl
Four or Five Roses
2004 Frankfurter Kunstverein EXHIBITION
© frankfurter kunstverein
Feb 28 to Mar 14, 2004
With the work “Four or Five Roses” Peter Friedl continued his investigation of stereotypes of monologic language. Peter Friedl has put together numerous children’s monologues from interviews and conversations which he had on playgrounds in South Africa.
Carefully transcribed and translated into English from various South African languages, the “monologues” will be published in the form of a book.
Friedl transposes the subjectively outlined reports and stories of the four to 14-year-olds into the context of art through a conceptually concentrated form of text. Although the monologues are characterized by children’s language, they refer at the same time to complex social connections which, in their abstract and form of presentation, reach far beyond the supposed idyll of the children’s playground.
The monologues are accompanied by a photographic work by Peter Friedl that engages not so much with the social potential of children’s playgrounds, but rather describes them as a concrete ‘location’. Under the title, Playgrounds, he has taken photographs all over the world since 1995 which document the diverse phenomena of playgrounds.
Artist: Peter Friedl
(born 1960 in Austria) is an artist based in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Hamburger Kunsthalle. He has participated in documenta X, 12, and 14 (1997, 2007, 2017); the 48th and 56th Venice Biennale (1999, 2015); the 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2004); Manifesta 7, Trento (2008); the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008); the 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008); La Triennale, Paris (2012); the Taipei Biennial (2012, 2016); the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale (2015); and the 1st Anren Biennale (2017). He takes part in the Sharjah Biennial 14 (March – June 2019). Selected solo exhibitions include OUT OF THE SHADOWS, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2004); Work 1964–2006, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Miami Art Central; Musée d’Art Contemporain; Marseille (2006–07); Blow Job, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2008); Working, Kunsthalle Basel (2008); Peter Friedl, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2010); The Dramatist, Artspace, Auckland, (2014); The Diaries, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2016), and Teatro Popular, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon (2017).
Peter Friedl. Four or Five Roses
On the occasion of the exhibition a catalogue was published, with Texts by Vanessa Joan Müller.
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