


78¾ (h) x 32¼ x 30 in



43 (h) x 60 x 36 in




98½ (h) x 78¾ x 1¼ in




82¾ x 78¾ in
- <
- 1/13
- >
Objects are closer than they appear
The Buchmann Gallery is happy to announce the group exhibition Objects are closer than they appear.
The exhibition’s title is a variation of the well-known phrase used as a safety warning on rear-view mirrors in American automobiles. The exhibition adopts this phrase as a point of departure to reflect on the relationship between sensibility and nearness. All of the works exhibited share a specific reference to the phenomenon of nearness and a sensory tactility. The phenomenological, imaginary and emotional aspect of the works shown, deals with possibilities of perception and poses questions on approaches to perception.
A series of works which either make use of mirrors or reflecting surfaces are presented in the exhibition and point towards the origin of the exhibition’s title and at the same time expand on the utilitarian function of the mirror and its possibilities to play with our perceptions.
While Daniel Buren splits up the reflection through his visual tool the stripe thus creating a dividing line between real surfaces and reflections; Alberto Garutti uses the mirror as a memory of past images, moments and reflections. The holes and the title of the work serve to bridge the gap with this past and as an invitation to observers to enter this in their imaginations.
The new group of works by Tatsuo Miyajima has the abbreviation C.T.C.S. in its title. This stands for Counter Time Counter Self and precedes all the titles of Miyajima’s work using mirrors and is to be understood as a connection or fusion between the work and the observer. The observer and the surroundings become a part of the perpetually counting work of art.
The reflecting black form in the photographic work by Wilhelm Mundt incorporates the outline of his Trashstones. The observer or objects reflected in its surface become a part of the work within a seemingly dematerialized space which knows neither proximity nor distance.
Bettina Pousttchi is showing a work from her ensemble Squeezers – twisted street bollards – which obviously takes the title of the exhibition quite literally by its ingenious combinations which achieve an anthropomorphic appearance.
According to the concepts of ancient times a beam of optic rays was emitted from the eye which informed the observer of the distance, position, size, form and colours of an object. The eye scans the surface just as the hand touches the body of the beloved one. The sculptures by William Tucker and Tony Cragg in the exhibition exemplify this emotionalized perceptual model.
The pastel-coloured abstractions in Fiona Rae’s latest paintings are variations on a cartoon which the artist developed in an extensive series of drawings. The influences of calligraphy and Chinese ink painting are evident. Rae exploits our innate faculty of recognizing familiar forms in anything we see and which stand closer to us than mere abstract-geometric compositions. Again here the close relationship of the eye and the hand are remarkable. In an interview Rae describes it like this. “I want the urgency of paint marks and gestures made only by the hand; the need to make a mark that goes back thousands of years.”
If you wish to obtain further information on the artists or images of the
works, please do not hesitate to contact the gallery.
Die Buchmann Galerie freut sich die Gruppenausstellung Objects are closer than they appear anzukündigen.
Der Ausstellungstitel ist eine Abwandlung des Satzes der in amerikanischen Auto-Rückspiegeln als „safety warning“ zu lesen ist. Die Ausstellung nimmt diesen Satz als Ausgangspunkt zu einer Reflektion über die Beziehung von Sensualität, Taktilität, Ferne und Nähe. Die phänomenologische, imaginäre und emotionale Seite der ausgestellten Arbeiten verhandelt Möglichkeiten von Wahrnehmung und fragt nach den Bedingungen derselben.
Eine Reihe von Arbeiten, die Spiegel oder spiegelnde Oberflächen verwenden, sind in der Ausstellung präsent und deuten auf den Ursprung des Ausstellungstitels hin, erweitern aber die utilitäre Funktion des Spiegels um seine Möglichkeit mit unserer Wahrnehmung zu spielen.
Während Daniel Buren das Spiegelbild durch sein visuelles Werkzeug der Streifen auffächert und eine Grenze zwischen realer Oberfläche und Spiegelbild erzeugt, nutzt Alberto Garutti den Spiegel als Gedächtnis vergangener Bilder, Momente und Reflektionen. Die vorhandenen Löcher und der Werktitel dienen als Brücke in diese Vergangenheit und Aufforderung an den Betrachter diese imaginär zu beschreiten.
Die neue Werkgruppe von Tatsuo Miyajima hat die Abkürzung C.T.C.S. im Titel. Ausgeschrieben lautet sie Counter Time Counter Self und steht allen Titeln von Spiegelarbeiten Miyajimas voran. Sie ist als Verbindung oder Verschmelzung zwischen Werk und Betrachter zu verstehen. Der Betrachter und der Umraum wird zum Teil des zählenden Werks.
Die reflektierende schwarze Form in der Fotografie von Wilhelm Mundt nimmt den Umriss seiner Trashstones auf. Der Betrachter oder sich spiegelnde Objekte werden Teil des Werkes innerhalb eines scheinbar entmaterialisierten Raumes, der weder Nähe noch Ferne kennt.
Bettina Pousttchi zeigt eine Arbeit aus der Werkgruppe Squeezers - verbogene Straßenpfosten, die den Titel der Ausstellung offensichtlich wörtlich nehmen, durch ihre geschickte Gruppierung aber zudem eine anthropomorphe Erscheinung erlangen.
Nach antiker Auffassung sendet das Auge einen Kegel von Sehstrahlen aus, der über Abstand, Lage, Größe, Gestalt und Farbe der Gegenstände unterrichtet. Das Auge tastet die Oberfläche ab wie die Hand den geliebten Körper. Die Skulpturen von William Tucker und Tony Cragg dienen in der Ausstellung als Beispiele dieses emotionalisierten Wahrnehmungsmodells.
Die pastellfarbenen Abstraktionen auf den neuen Bildern von Fiona Rae sind Variationen eines Cartoons den die Künstlerin in umfangreichen Zeichnungsserien entwickelte. Auch der Einfluss der Kaligraphie und Chinesischer Tuschmalerei ist zu ahnen. Rae spielt mit unserem Vermögen in allen Dingen bekannte Formen zu erkennen, die uns menschlich näher stehen als abstrakt-geometrische Kompositionen. Auch hier ist das Verhältnis von Auge und Hand bemerkenswert. In einem Interview beschreibt die Künstlerin dies so: „Ich will die Kraft der Farbspuren und Gesten, nur von Hand gemacht; das Bedürfnis eine Spur zu setzen, die tausende von Jahren zurückreicht.“
Für weitere Informationen über die Künstler und für Bildmaterial können Sie sich gerne jederzeit mit der Galerie in Verbindung setzen.
Daniel Buren
Born 1938 Boulogne-Billancourt. Lives and works in situ.
2007 | PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE AWARD 2007 - FOR PAINTINGS The Japan Art Association, Tokio |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Tony Cragg
Born 1949 in Liverpool. Lives and works in Wuppertal.
2009 - 2013 | Director of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
2002 | Professorship for sculpture at UdK Universität der Künste, Berlin Member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
1994 | Member of the Royal Academy, London |
1979 | Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
1973 - 1977 | Royal College of Art |
1968 - 1972 | Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Cheltenham und Wimbledon School of Art |
1966 – 1968 | Lab Technician at the National Rubber Producers Research Association |
2017 |
Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center |
2016 |
Knight Bachelor of the British Empire |
2013 |
Chaire de Création Artistique, Collège de France Rheinischer Kulturpreis, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland |
2012 | Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1st Class Artist's Medal of Honor of the Hermitage, Russia |
2009 | Honorary doctor of the Royal College of Arts |
2007 | Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, The Japan Art Foundation |
2005 | 1st Prize for Best Sculpture, 2. Biennale Beijing |
2002 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
2001 | Honorary Fellowship John Moores University, Liverpool Shakespeare-Prize |
1992 | Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres |
1989 | Von-der-Heydt-Prize, Wuppertal |
1988 | Turner Prize British Representative at the 43rd Venice Biennale |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Alberto Garutti
Born in 1948 in Galbiate
Lives and works in Milan
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2012 Permanent artwork, Porta Nuova-Garibaldi, Milan
2011 Permanent artwork, Malpensa airport, Stazione Cadorna, Milan
2005 Appointed for the enclosure project of the garden in front of the Fondazione Sandretto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Invitation contest for the new Cittadella Giustizia, Venice
2002 Artwork for the Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome
1999 Artwork for the Pietrasanta Hotel, Room 101, Pietrasanta Forte dei Marmi
1998 Permanent artwork, Piazza Dante, Bergamo
1996 Artwork for Palazzo Cordati, Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Barga
Permanent artwork, Piazza Pontida, Bergamo
1993 Permanent artwork, Hotel Palace, Room 402, Bologna
Tatsuo Miyajima
Born 1957 in Tokyo. Lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan.
2012 - 2016Kyoto University of Art & Design Vice President
2006 - 2016Tohoku University of Art & Design Vice President
1986 | Completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (M.A.) |
1984 | Graduated from Oil Painting Course, Fine Arts Department, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (B.A.) |
1998 | London Institute honorary doctorate |
1993 | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1990–1991 | DAAD Scholarship Berliner Kunstprogramm Berlin, |
1990 | ACC - Asian Cultural Council, New York |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Panasonic Museum in Osaka, Japan
FARET Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
TV Asahi building, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo, Japan
Chiba City Museum, Chiba, Japan
Group Home Sala in Florence Village, Akita, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Saitama Prefectural University, Saitama, Japan
Izumi City Plaza, Osaka, Japan
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Samsung Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Leeum, Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea
Chinese Telecom, Taipei, China
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The British Museum, London, UK
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Université de Genève, Switzerland
La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Fondazione TESECO per l'Arte, Pisa, Italy
Chateau La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, U.S.A.
Dallas Museum of Art, U.S.A.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, U.S.A.
Dannheisser Foundation, New York, U.S.A.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
2005 | ARTISTS SUMMIT, KYOTO, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan |
2002 | Collaboration with SOPHNET (fashion design brand) 2002 A/W Collection Tokyo 1000 Real Life Project - Death Clock, Tokyo |
2000 | Floating Time - Hospice Project, Sotoasahikawa Hospital, Akita |
1998 | Portfolio for The Edge of Awareness |
1995 | Portfolio for 4. Uluslararasi Istanbul Bienali-ORIENT / ATION |
1994 | Mirror, multiple, Spiral, Tokyo |
1993 | Over Economy, acrylic, pencil on bank note \10,000 |
1992 | Project for PARKETT |
1984 | Time Funeral, record jacket, SMS Records |
Wilhelm Mundt
Born 1959 in Grevenbroich. Lives and works in Rommerskirchen, Cologne and Dresden.
2009 -Professorship at University of Fine Arts, Dresden
1989 - 91Teaching assignment at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1979 - 86 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
2007 | Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1986 | Scholarship Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Universität St Gallen
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Margulies Collection, Miami
Société Générale Collection, Paris
Universität Bayreuth
MunichRe, München
Vestas, Aarhus
Bettina Pousttchi
Born 1971 in Mainz. Lives and works in Berlin.
1999/2000 | Whitney Independent Studio Program, Whitney Museum, New York |
1995-1999 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (with Prof. Gerhard Merz and Prof. Rosemarie Trockel) |
1992-1997 | Studies in philosophy, art and film history, Universities of Cologne and Bochum |
1990-1992 | Studies in Fine Art, Université de Paris |
2016 | Villa Aurora, Los Angeles |
2014 |
Wolfsburg Art Award |
2008 |
TrAIN Research Center for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts, London |
2007 | BBAX - Berlin Buenos Aires Art Exchange, Buenos Aires |
2005 | Provinzial Förderprojekt |
2000 | Kunststiftung NRW |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington DC
Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas
Margulies Collection Miami
Rennie Collection Vancouver
The Arts Club of Chicago
The Phillips Collection Washington DC
Freybe Collection Vancouver
Nasher Collection Dallas
Albertina Vienna
Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art Berlin
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Hall Collection New York
Blake Byrne/Skylark Foundation Los Angeles
Levine Collection Washington DC
Wemhöner Collection Herford/Berlin
Kadist Collection Paris
Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany
University of Cologne
Von-der-Heydt Museum Wuppertal
Absolut Art Collection Stockholm
Wolfsburg City Art Gallery
MMAG Foundation Amman
Fiona Rae
Born 1963 in Hong Kong. Lives and works in London.
1983-84 | Croydon College of Art, London, UK |
1984-87 | Goldsmiths College, London, UK |
2018 | Royal Mail Stamp Design Commission for the 250th anniversary of Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2017 | Curator of Invited Room, The 249th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2015 | Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths, London, UK |
2011-15 | Professor of Painting for the Royal Academy Schools, London, UK |
2011-13 | Tate Members’ Artist Commission, London, UK |
2010 | Curator of Invited Room, The 242nd Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2007 | Shortlisted for the Charles Wollaston Award, The 239th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
2005-09 | Appointed Tate Artist Trustee, London, UK |
2005 | Master Artist in Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA |
2003 | BBC Art Site Installations Commissions, BBC Broadcasting House Public Art Program, London, UK |
2002-05 | Tate Modern Restaurant Commission, London, UK |
2002 |
Elected to Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK |
1993 |
Shortlisted for the Eliette von Karajan Prize for Young Painters, Austria |
1991 | Shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Arts Council England, UK
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
British Council, UK
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Essl Museum - Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Île-de-France, France
Fundación Barrié, A Coruña, Spain
Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
Government Art Collection, UK
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Jerwood Collection, London, UK
Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds, UK
Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Tate Collection, UK
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Warwick University Art Collection, UK
William Tucker
Born 1935 in Cairo, Egypt
Lives and works in Massachusetts, USA
1959-1960 | Studies at St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, London |
1955-1958 | Studies at University of Oxford, England |
2011 | Elected as honorary National Academician, National Academy Museum, New York |
2010 | Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton |
2009 | Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1995 | Rodin-Moore Memorial Prize, Second Fujisankei Biennale Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan |
1991 | Sculpture Center Award for Distinction in Sculpture |
1980 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
1968-1970 |
Gregory Fellowship in Sculpture, University of Leeds |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
British Council, London
The British Museum, London
City of Bilbao, Spain
Contemporary Art Society, London
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
The Margulies Collection, Miami
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN