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An Art Exhibition. Hans Peter Feldmann

Dates: September 22, 2010 – February 28, 2011
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3

Hans Peter Feldmann (Düsseldorf 1941) began his artistic career in the late 1960s. His first works were a series of small books in offset printing, titled “Bilders” (Pictures) in which he reproduced one or more images from an everyday object: tools, airplanes, knees, etc. Since then his interest in the photographic image, which he collects obsessively, has led him to produce several photography series. Some of them are as renowned as his “Time Series” in which he portrays an insignificant event, such as a ship passing by or a woman cleaning a window, in thirty-six images from an analog film cartridge. His interest in photography is not based on the individual image, but rather on the series and what seems to hold them together as a sequence.

Desbordamiento de Val del Omar

Dates: October 5, 2010 – February 28, 2011
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3, Rooms 301, 302, 303, and 304

This exhibition aims to address the “endless” film career of José Val del Omar (Granada 1904 – Madrid 1982)—a fragmented, inconclusive corpus shaken by history, which survived a civil war and an extended dictatorship. Today his work has become a point of reference that even begins to transgress boundaries. His production is sparse, but is immersed in the continuous task of creating images and their overflow into what Val del Omar described using the initials PLAT (Picto-Lumínica-Audio-Tactil) or the Pictorial-Luminous-Audio-Tactile sensibility.

Atlas

Dates: November 24, 2010 – March 28, 2011
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 4

The exhibition Atlas proposes to shed light on the new framework of thought that Aby Warburg introduced to Western knowledge of history and images. The exhibition aims to demonstrate that after Warburg and his Bilderatlas, images were no longer seen in the same way. What changed were not the images themselves, but rather the manner in which their relationships to each other were conceived—for some images offer a position faced with others, and all of them together confront what would come to pass in history. Nevertheless, the exhibition is not constructed as a monographic display on Aby Warburg, but as a journey through the history of images from 1914 to today, drawing from Warburg’s thought as its genius loci.