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Dienstag, 17. Mai 2022

FLAM #09


Live Art Manifestation Amsterdam 

17 – 20 May 2022

In response to and invitation from Philipp Gufler, following their appearances in his film The Responsive Body, Louwrien Wijers and the Publik Univeral Frxnd have created a new performance work entitled Not Yet that explores their relationship and the a series of paintings by Wijers. Not Yet will be performed on Thursday, May 18 at 19:30 at Arti et Amicitae. The Responsive Body is installed as an installation and on view during the festival times. 

FLAM #9 serves a sizzling live art program with performances, audiovisual installations and unexpected interactions. After three years of mostly working behind the scenes, this new edition brings you a wide choice of local and international artists along with their works, which can be witnessed at close range. From a post-apocalyptic one-eyed bird of a cabaret singer named Puddles the Pelican, an earth eating cultural researcher, a rubbing expert that always puts pleasure at the center of work, to a bold musical performance questioning how we perceive otherness, each one of FLAM’s performances proposes a unique experience between the public and the work.


Arti et Amicitiae
Rokin 112
1012 LB Amsterdam





Fotos: Thomas Lenden

Sonntag, 23. August 2020

Autoerotismus

 



AUTOEROTISMUS

Exhibition: 9.9 – 11.10.2020
Opening: Tuesday, 8.9.2020, 5 – 9 PM



If one follows Lu Märten, a feminist writer and theorist, who started publishing articles on socialism, literature, land reform, women’s rights and art in 1902, it is the provision of art history to assemble an ever-expanding gallery of losses. It catalogues a history of forms lost for life. Philipp Gufler’s work, for all its ancestral halls, all its symbolic ovations and all its historical reference points, does no such thing. Ever. Rather, he reintroduces lives in art, isolating and intensifying pleasure points that did cross paths with art’s modern history but did withhold allegiance. For a very simple reason: “The complex body-fantasy is capable of much higher differentiation to the point of sophistry than positive art and humanities would have us believe to this day ... and not only the future of art and philosophy depends on whether we finally come down to it.”1 These are the words of Peter Gorsen, one of Gufler’s subjects, written in an essay on art he contributed to Armand Mergen’s “Sexualforschung. Stichwort und Bild”, published in Hamburg in 1962, with the support of Germany’s most influential sexual scientist, Hans Giese. The lexicon was a reworked version of the “Bilderlexikon der Erotik” that the Institute for Sexual Science in Vienna had brought out in ten volumes in the 1930s. One of its convictions had been to sideline the normalizing effects of psychoanalysis and counter them with a general pathology of pleasures. In distancing the field of sexuality from its (re)productive societal functions, and laying out a panorama of dysfunctionality in word and image, these two visual encyclopedias offered nothing less than an anthropological reorientation: the techniques, materials and appendages of a labor against reproduction. A labor of self-endangerment. A labor of desire. One could say that Philipp Gufler continues this work.

Gufler’s pieces in that sense are obituaries of living desires that stage a labor-history of pleasure. He invites subjects into it whose investment with artistic labor starts from what Giese calls “a partner-like relationship to oneself”2, at once a relation of alienation and communion. Gufler assembles these tipping points of metamorphosis of industrial illegibility. His mirroring metal sculptures, elementary forms, silkscreened with color palettes, perform an uncannily symbolic role within this scenario. They appear like blanks, windows, opened for pleasures yet unarticulated. Most of them seem to suggest a possible use value, future trays and mirrors of interiors populated by … us? An offer of consumption. Victor Vasarely, whose moldering museum in Aix-en-Provence served as the stage for Gufler’s film “The Responsive Body”, another one of Gufler’s subjects, offered just that in order to locate its excess within the beholder, “exceeding the optical adaptation limits" in which "the required vision becomes the sensation of pain"3. The pain of interrupted self-regeneration here is externalized into the public sphere. And it is pain in its changing forms which Gufler takes seriously as artistic form, exchanging narrations of tormented interiorities, with those of a “partner-like relationship to oneself” within a world of perversion. As Henri Nouveau, the person Giese addresses here without ever naming him, in one of his diary entries “after thirty years of permanent self-analysis and observation”, resumes: “it would be incorrect to call my life wrong, because it is based on irreal ideas; wrong was only that I was looking for reality, desired fulfillment.“4 The deadly hardship of feeling an unmodern life amidst modernity’s triumphal rage—Nouveau wrote this on January 13th 1945—finds itself in the tiniest corner, immersed in a labor of self-invigoration and -consumption. But these are the niches that Gufler opens up anew, that he turns into sequential halls, that he refuses to surrender to the reified exceptionalisms of art history. And here, Märten returns. Her major work “Wesen und Veränderung der Formen / Künste” of 1924 was dedicated studying to “the origin of forms — today called art — (and it) shows that there were no art conceptions and ideas in these beginnings. The forms originate from important life purposes; they are means to achieve them. Their primitive as well as their consummated type comes from a common source – labor.”5 The labor Gufler presents is that of “Autoerotismus”, a labor up for expansion, for communizations, for desires shared as forms of a life that does to offer a utopian outlook, but a “much higher differentiation to the point of sophistry”, a life of forms prepared to redirect its external relations, open to “register: what a spook the day brings…"6

Text by Kerstin Stakemeier


1 Peter Gorsen, Kunst (moderne, bildende) in: Armand Mergen (Hg.), Sexualforschung – Stich- Wort und Bild, Band I und II,Wien, Leipzig, 1963, S.447-516, hier S. 516 Institut für Sexualforschung Wien (Hg.), Bil- der-Lexikon der Erotik, Band I bis X, Wien/ Leipzig 1938. „Der Komplex Leib-Phantasie ist ungleich höherer Differenzierung bis zur Spitzfindigkeit fähig, als positive Kunst und Geisteswissenschaften es ihr bis heute zutrauen … und nicht nur die Zukunft der Kunst und Philosophie hängt davon ab, ob wir uns endlich zu ihr herablassen.“

2 Einführung von Hans Giese, zu Jürg Hansen, Abstraktion vom sinnlichen Erleben (Der Weg eines Malers), in: Hans Giese, Jürg Hansen, Wilfried Rasch (Hrsg.), Psychiatrische Beiträge zur modernen Kunst, Ferdinand Enke Verlag Stuttgart, 1967, S.15 „eine partnerhafte Beziehung zu sich selbst“

3 Peter Gorsen, »Transformierte Alltäglichkeit oder Transzendenz der Kunst«, in: Chris Bezzel, Peter Brückner, Gisela Dischner, Peter Gorsen, Alfred Krvoza, Gabriele Ricke, Alfred Sohn-Rethel u.a., Das Unvermögen der Realität. Beiträge zu einer anderen materialistischen Ästhetik, Berlin, 1974, S. 153, FN 25 “Überschreitung der optischen Adaptionsgrenzen” in der “das geforderte Sehen zur Schmerzempfindung” wird.

4 „es wäre unrichtig mein Leben falsch zu nennen, weil es auf irreellen Vorstellungen basiert; falsch war nur, daß ich Realität suchte, Erfüllung wünschte, Giese, Einführung, S. 21.

5 Lu Märten, Wesen und Veränderung der Formen/Künste. Resultate historisch materialistischer Untersuchungen, Frankfurt am Main, 1924, S.286. „Das Resultat der Untersuchung über die Entstehung der Formen – heute Kunst genannt, ergibt, daß es keine Kunstvorstellungen und Ideen in diesen Anfängen gab. Die Formen entstammen wichtigen Lebenszwecken; sie sind Mittel, diese zu erreichen. Ihre primitive wie vollendete Art entstammt der gemeinsamen Quelle – der Arbeit.“

6 Giese, Einführung, S.21. Beobachten: was für einen Spuk der Tag zuträgt



KEVIN SPACE
Volkertplatz 13
AT-1020 Vienna
















Photos: Maximilian Anelli-Monti

Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2019

It is getting alive



Philipp Gufler: IT IS GETTING ALIVE


Eröffnung Freitag 10.1.20120, 18–21 Uhr
Ausstellung 11.1. – 29.2.2020


BQ
WeydingerstraSSe 10
1018 Berlin
Di– Sa 11–18 Uhr


On Thursday February 27, 2020 at 7 pm Philipp Guflers new artist book Quilt #01 – #30 will be presented at BQ. The book is published by Hammann Von Mier Verlag, Munich.







Foto: Roman März, Berlin

Jahresgaben Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen

JAHRESGABEN 2019






mit LEDA BOURGOGNE, CYTTER/ ROEBAS, ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN, DOROTA GAWĘDA UND EGLĖ KULBOKAITĖ, NICHOLAS GRAFIA, PHILIPP GUFLER, KARL HOLMQVIST, ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS, PUPPIES PUPPIES (JADE KURIKI OLIVO), EILEEN QUINLAN, AGNES SCHERER, THOMAS SPALLEK, EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG, LENA WILLIKENS & SARAH SZCZESNY



December 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Opening: Friday, December 13, 2019, 7.30 pm


Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf

Foto: Katja Illner

Samstag, 18. Mai 2019

Pleasure-Pain at Marwan, Amsterdam


Pleasure-Pain
Marwan is delighted to invite you to the opening of Pleasure-Pain by Philipp Gufler on Friday, May 31st, 2019. Central to Gufler's first Amsterdam solo exhibition is his new video installation The Responsive Body, starring Diogo da Cruz, Johanna Gonschorek, Richard John Jones, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, and Louwrien Wijers.

On Marwan's website, you can now find the text "The Responsive Body – somatic hacking and artistic friendships" by art historian and educator Arnisa Zeqo, which is accompanying the exhibition.

"Pleasure-Pain" is on view till June 23. Marwan is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 pm to 5 pm and by appointment.

On Thursday, June 6, at 8 pm, two performances by Johanna Gonschorek and Diogo Da Cruz will take place at Marwan as part of the exhibition.

The exhibition Pleasure-Pain is made possible with the generous support of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. The production of the video installation The Responsive Body is kindly supported by the Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung and Stichting Stokroos.





Marwan
Fokke Simonszstraat 12, Amsterdam, 1017 TG Netherlands
https://marwan.hotglue.me

Marwan is an artist-run project space at Fokke Simonszstraat 12, Amsterdam, initiated and curated by Tirza Kater and Tim Mathijsen and currently operating autonomously under the generous wings of AKINCI







Fotos: Franziska Schulz

Montag, 25. März 2019

I'M IN LOVE WITH A STATUE

I'M IN LOVE WITH A STATUE

Opening: Thursday, 02. Mai, 7 PM



02.05.2019 – 13.07.2019 

THE EXHIBITION IS EXTENDED FROM: 26.06. – 13.07.2019
The gallery is closed while the Whitsun holidays.


„They are attacking me, hypnotizing my eyes.
It is extending into the space, onto my body. My body is vulnerable. I'm loosing control. My central-nervous system is numb.
It has to be removed, destroyed.“


aus The Responsive Body von Philipp Gufler



Die Op-Art der 1960er Jahre vermittelt sich als Kunstströmung der Präzision und Kontrolle über den Gegenstand und feiert in überwältigenden Mustern die Kunst der Illusion. Einer der Heroen unter den Op-Art-Künstlern war Victor Vasarely, den in der Hochphase seines Schaffens die Idee bewegte, seinen Bildern umfassende Präsenz zu verschaffen. Das Logo von Renault bringt noch heute zum Ausdruck, wie sehr Vasarely in alle Poren des Alltags eintauchte. Seine Fondation in Aix-en-Provence sollte als Gesamtkunstwerk die Ideen des Künstlers verbreiten. Vasarely schuf für sein Museum 42 Monumentalwerke in den Maßen sechs auf acht Meter.

Einige Tage am Ende des letzten Jahres verbrachte Philipp Gufler mit einem Team an Filmleuten und befreundeten Künstler_innen vor Ort, um sich am Ego und Egozentrismus eines Malers abzuarbeiten, welcher der Op-Art nachhaltig seine DNA einschrieb. Diogo Da Cruz, Johanna Gonschorek, Richard John Jones, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Louwrien Wijers und Philipp Gufler formulieren die Wirkung der Werke körperlich. Die optischen Effekte der großformatigen Bilder affizieren die Anwesenden, das Sehen löst extreme Reaktionen des Körpers aus. Die Reizüberflutung führt zu Schwindelgefühlen – ganz ähnlich denen des Schriftstellers Stendhal, der 1817 beim Besuch von Santa Croce in Florenz von einem nervösen Anfall erfasst wurde. Das Stendhal-Syndrom ist in der Performance vor Vasarelys Gemälden eine Doppelfigur: im Schwindel offenbart sich die Ohnmacht der Rezipierenden und die Macht des Bildes über ihre Sinne.

In Guflers Videoinstallation The Responsive Body (2019) formulieren sich Fragen an das heteronormative, männliche Selbstverständnis einer Kunstrichtung. Gufler schleuste Texte der britischen Op-Art-Künstlerin Bridget Riley in seinen Film und gibt ihr damit Raum in einem egozentrischen Museum. Der Film wird in der Ausstellung auf eine Folie projiziert, deren Siebdruckmuster an einen Entwurf Bridget Rileys erinnert. Somit bringt die Projektion Vasarely, Riley und Gufler in Interaktion. Guflers Videoinstallation verhandelt dabei wesentliche Themen, die Vasarelys Kunst und ihrer Rezeption zu eigen sind: Kontrolle über die Muster und das Sehen, Wiederholung als Reproduktion, Macht über die Rezeption, Narzissmus und Selbstbespiegelung.

In den Spiegelbehälter und den Dreiecksspiegeln im ersten Stock der Galerie paraphrasieren sich diese Motive. Auch der rosa Winkel, den schwule KZ-Häftlinge in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus sichtbar tragen mussten, formuliert eine Obsession für geometrische Figuren; zwanzig Jahre später extrahierte die Op-Art aus den berechenbaren Formen der Geometrie ihre Identität. Von den Spiegeln führt zudem ein Weg zum unvollendeten Schloss Herrenchiemsee des bayerischen Königs Ludwig II., der auf dem Chiemsee eine Reinkarnation von Versailles plante. Im Büro der Galerie hängt ein Quilt, das Gufler dem Träumer und selbst ernannten „Gralskönig“ Ludwig widmet. In der Ausstellung I’m In Love With A Statue entwickelt sich ein Dialog über Zeiten und Räume, ist der bayerische König zugleich Partner und Antipode Victor Vasarelys. Herrenchiemsee von 1878 begegnet der Fondation von 1976, in der Großen Spiegelgalerie des Schlosses auf der Chiemseeinsel spiegeln sich nicht nur die Phantasmen des Königs, sondern auch die Großkunstphantasien Vasarelys, wird die heroische Maskulinität persifliert.


Burcu Dogramaci

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„They are attacking me, hypnotizing my eyes.
It is extending into the space, onto my body. My body is vulnerable. I'm loosing control. My central-nervous system is numb.
It has to be removed, destroyed.“


from The Responsive Body by Philipp Gufler


Op Art from the 1960s communicates itself as an art movement of precision and control over the object and celebrates in overwhelming patterns the art of illusion. One of the heroes among Op Art’s various artists was Victor Vasarely, who, at the peak of his craft, was moved by the idea to provide his paintings with an all-encompassing presence. Renault’s logo, still, today, expresses how deep Vasarely immersed himself into each and every sphere of every day life. His foundation in Aix-en-Provence was meant to spread the artist’s ideas as a complete and total work of art. Vasarely created 42 monumental works, sized six to eight metres, for his museum.

For a few days at the end of last year, Philipp Gufler, together with a film crew and a team of befriended artists, visited the museum in order to grasp and process the ego and egocentrism of a painter, who inscribed deeply into Op Art his own DNA. Diogo Da Cruz, Johanna Gonschorek, Richard John Jones, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Louwrien Wijers, and Philipp Gufler intended to formulate the impact of the works physically. The optical effects of the large-scale images affect those present, the act of seeing triggers extreme reactions in the body. Sensory overload leads to dizziness – similar to that suffered by the author Stendhal, who, during a visit of Santa Croce experienced a nervous seizure in Florence in 1871. During this performance, the Stendhal syndrome in front of Vasarely’s paintings constitutes a double-figure: through dizziness the impotence of the receiving attendees is revealed as well as the power the images hold over their senses.

In Gufler’s video installation The Responsive Body (2019), questions, directed at heteronormative, masculine self-conceptions of an art movement, arise. Gufler channelled texts by the British Op Art artist Bridget Riley into the film and thus provides her with space in an egocentric museum. In the exhibition, the film will be projected onto a foil, which resembles with its silkscreen pattern one of Bridget Riley’s designs. Thus, the projection brings Vasarely, Riley, and Gufler in a state of interaction. Gufler’s video installation deals with essential themes, which are intrinsic to Vasarely’s art and its reception: control over patterns and the act of seeing, the repetition of reproductions, the power over reception as well as narcissism and self-adulation.

The mirror case and the triangle-shaped mirrors on the first floor in the gallery, paraphrase these motives. The pink angle, too, which gay concentration camp inmates had to wear visibly during the time of national socialism, formulates the obsession with geometric figures; twenty years later, Op Art extracted through the calculable forms of geometry their identity. From the mirrors away leads a way to the unfinished castle Herrenchiemsee, purchased by the Bavarian King Ludwig II, who planned Versailles’ reincarnation on the Chiemsee island. In the office of the gallery hangs a quilt, which Gufler dedicates to the dreamer and self-appointed “Grail King” Ludwig. In the exhibition I’m In Love With A Statue, a dialogue between time and space develops; the Bavarian king is at one and the same time partner and antipode of Victor Vasarelys. Herrenchiemsee of 1878 meets the foundation of 1976; the great mirror gallery of the castle on the Chiemsee island reflects not only are the phantasms of the king, but also those of Vasarely’s project on great art – their heroic masculinity is satirised.


Burcu Dogramaci

Galerie Françoise Heitsch

Amalienstr. 19, 80333 München T +49 (89) 481 200 F +49 (89) 481 201
Open We – Fr 14:00 – 19:00  SA 12:00 – 16:00
FHEITSCH@FRANCOISEHEITSCH.DE 

Die Videoinstallation THE RESPONSIVE BODY ist mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftungund und der Stichting Stokroos entstanden.









Fotos: Baschang, Courtesy the artist and gallery Françoise Heitsch, Munich

Movie poster, 2019













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Poster by Philipp Gufler, special thanks to Yvonne Quirmbach!