ZEITGLEICH – ZEITZEICHEN – analog – digital
Exhibition in the BBK Kunstforum from 10.10. until 27.10.2019
Digitization is increasingly changing our everyday life: we save time through radical acceleration – but we still have less and less time. How does art deal with the topic of “digitization”? We are increasingly replacing the analogue world of things with the digital world of data. We experience less and less reality itself, but only store the data of reality – in our smartphones, our digital cameras, our social networks. In the future, machines with artificial intelligence will transfer us completely into a digitally networked environment. This changes our relationship to reality. We are moving away from real experience towards virtual participation. What effect does this have on the visual arts? Can the conventional “analogue” technologies still depict the new digital present? Eight artists from the BBK Düsseldorf want to find answers to these questions in the “Analog-Digital” exhibition. In doing so, they take many different paths. Some approach the topic with the traditional means of painting and graphics, others install scenarios of future digitally dominated existence, and there is art that was created exclusively digitally on the computer screen.
Participating artists:
Anna Borisova-Emilova / agii Gosse / Jan Masa / Anna Owsiana-Masa / Klaus Stecher Klasté / Wolfgang Kühn / Kristiane Rosenberg / Helmut Welsch
Exhibition
ArtWork - Wolfgang Kuehn
Installation “Climate Change”
The installation “Climate Change” by Wolfgang Kuehn is a hybrid analogue, digital work that is based on a highly abstract landscape painting (acrylic on canvas 1.5 x 3) with brush and spray can. This analogue, surrealistic image of a landscape is combined with digital technology. Current, digital photographs are alternately projected onto part of the painting. The analogue and static image of the painting thus comes alive and, through the dynamic projection of the digital photographs, becomes an element of a hybrid dynamic process. The symbiosis of the changing digital projection together with the static elements of the painting give the viewer a feeling of augmented reality and should take them into the surreal and real aspects of climate change.
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