exhibition "Sport in Art", Kunsthalle
Bahnitz
May 1 -30 August 2010
Arts and sports have been the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece to the present day on fascinating, beautiful, often dramatic and distressing nature were closely connected. The history of this Verbinduung begins with the bronze statues at the Temple of Zeus, which presented this and the ancient visitors to the Altis at Olympia, the proud Olympic champion.
The exhibition "Sport in Art" which opened at the Kunsthalle Bahnitz on May 1, 2010 raises, time at the Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin.
Peter Frenkel, through his photographic work, "The Olympics are everywhere," with photographs from the Olympic Village of 1936, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin and the former military school Jüterbog-old camp, a critical look through his camera to deal with this distressing German history in an impressively documented.
The 1936 Olympics in Berlin were staged as quasi-religious devotion to the glory of a German-national racial ideology, and were also used politically obscure the militarization of Germany.
Karl Heinz Biederbick born in 1934, influenced by his childhood memories of pre-and post-war period of German National Socialism, in his sculptural work, "Gold for Germany," inspired by release a photo of the figure skating pair Maxi Herber and Horst Bayer in the 1936 Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen of 1936, on a very subtle way that articulates Militerisierung Germany and the use of the Olympic Games of 1936 to the propaganda of the nation socialist state. In his sculptural work, the figure skating pair turned into a moving airplane (the illustrated possitions is in figure skating as a "pilot") and what at first sight, a playful sight, but by the clothing of the military uniform of Maxi Herber and the gray color piercing the sculpture, turns them into threatening combat aircraft, referring to the tragic history of Germany.
Harald Hirsch photographed in his work "1 May" and "Physical Education and Sports Festival Leipzig, 1987, the German post-war period in the former East Germany and their political Inszinierung of sports events and popular culture for ideological purposes. As much sport to the international recognition of the 'small' GDR contributed, the sport's establishment was very high, but at the same time, the athletes exploited for political show of force, while the masses formed on the ornament.
Marc Bijl throws in his short video works "Forever Sport Ad, 2004"
"Symbolic, intervention Alexanderplatz" .- "Symbolic, intervention Unter den Linden" and "Symbolic III, 2002" a critical look at the marketing of sports and their idols in advertising, and in the media. The presence and staging of sports in the public today, are substantially influenced by manipulating the marketing of the sport as a product of the specific values or mediated.
In the video "Forever Ad" (For more Adidas) engages Marc Bijl in an advertising poster from Adidas with David Backham and turned his gesture as a victorious pose, any regulations milled bleeding bullet holes on the Trickot into a painful cry and makes David Backham thus as victims of this production, by promoting dar.
Alexandra Weidmann makes us your drawings and paintings for the forthcoming World Cup in South Africa one, while you transform your pictures in the composition of almost religious altarpieces and thus the connection between the cult of the Christian religion and the cult round about the football and thus focuses on football as a substitute religion.
Christa Biederbick up in their plastic "football," inspired by a press photo, in an almost dance-like figures constellation of two football players dar. One player fouls his opponent at full speed, so that it will fall. This figure represented the moment of horizontal levitation. Only a hand and a finger touching the ground already. Again, there are also movements in addition to the strong colors, the scene of the give a combative element, with the close, to touch-based view of the two bodies together, which makes them seem like a total figure also includes something playful. That can open up the sports anchored situation further levels of meaning, is included in this work with as it is an African and European players with corresponding different skin color: "The behavior of the actors as" fair-play appeal 'quite well on existing social relations are based, given the current conflict between the developing countries as "third world" and the "first world" as the apparent dominant civilization.
Questions arise here are the questions: "Who is Who bring down - or bring the two to fall"
"What can the upcoming soccer World Cup in South Africa for this conflict resolution around the world something about it or they become layouts on different political and economic intentions still exploited? "
Bahnitz, May 2010
Bodo Rau
curator
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