Luis Camnitzer "Last Words"
3.9. - 23.10.2010
3.9. - 23.10.2010
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I am delighted to continue the exhibition activities of my gallery in the legendary space on Mutter-Ey-Straße with the radical work cycle “Last Words” of Luis Camnitzer.
The artist Luis Camnitzer (*1937 in Lübeck, later emigrated to Uruguay), who has been living in New York since the 1960s, became known to a broader audience in Germany through his participation in documenta 11 and a large retrospective at Kunsthalle Kiel (2003). In 2004 I exhibited his work cycle “Agent Orange” in my gallery.
Camnitzer’s special achievement lies in politicizing conceptual art. His artistic self-understanding, which draws on European traditions such as Dada and Situationism as well as from Uruguayan guerrilla strategies, also includes a strong commitment as an art critic, teacher and curator (e.g. within the frame of the show “Global Conceptualism” at the Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1999).
» deutsche version
I am delighted to continue the exhibition activities of my gallery in the legendary space on Mutter-Ey-Straße with the radical work cycle “Last Words” of Luis Camnitzer.
The artist Luis Camnitzer (*1937 in Lübeck, later emigrated to Uruguay), who has been living in New York since the 1960s, became known to a broader audience in Germany through his participation in documenta 11 and a large retrospective at Kunsthalle Kiel (2003). In 2004 I exhibited his work cycle “Agent Orange” in my gallery.
Camnitzer’s special achievement lies in politicizing conceptual art. His artistic self-understanding, which draws on European traditions such as Dada and Situationism as well as from Uruguayan guerrilla strategies, also includes a strong commitment as an art critic, teacher and curator (e.g. within the frame of the show “Global Conceptualism” at the Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1999).
Beside space-consuming installations, it is foremost the medium of printmaking from which Camnitzer has developed his artistic stance. He maintains that printmaking is a territory that has been alienated from its inherent goal of democratically conveying information. Camnitzer, a pioneer of conceptual art, critiques current political realities with a perspective informed by his first-hand experience of dictatorships in Latin America. The six-part work cycle “Last Words” presented in the exhibition comes on the heels of New Jersey’s historic decision to abolish the death penalty, and as the Supreme Court continues to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections.