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17 abril 2008 – 8 junio 2008

Central Art Award: Mark Leckey

Mark Leckey (born 1964), laureate of the Central Art Award, is presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein under the title of Resident. This title refers not only to Leckey’s residency at the Kunstverein but also to the idea of the exhibition, which is arranged along the main horizontal and vertical axes of the building. One of Leckey’s characteristic strategies is to use his place of residence as a starting point for his work. The horizontal axis of the exhibition space is devoted to Leckey’s video installation Cinema in the Round (2007), in which he presents his collection of film, television and video quotations in a sort of performance lecture. Fascinated by how the images on the screen seem to come to life, the artist talks about the transitions between two- and three-dimensionality and the relationship between object and image. The sculptural quality of the films comes to the fore in Cinema in the Round, in the 16mm film Made in ’Eaven (2004) and the videos Felix gets Broadcasted (2007) and The Thing in Regent’s Park (2006). Made in ́Eaven gives us the impression that the camera portrays Jeff Koons’s famous Playboy Bunny from all sides. Only when we see the reflection on the shiny surface of the sculpture – which reflects the artist's studio, but not the camera – do we realize that the sequence was animated. It was transferred to16mm film and is presented on a pedestal, like a sculpture. In The Thing in Regent’s Park, we see a curious animated sculpture (by J. D. Williams) walking through Regents Park in London, taking the same route that the artist uses to go to his studio every day. Mark Leckey will also use a zoetrope – a device that creates the illusion of moving images – to cause a reproduction of the rooster figure in front of the Kunstverein building to appear to walk.

Central Art Award: Mark Leckey

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