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FRANZ EHMANN
THE BLUE ROOM OF HUMANITY/DER BLAUE RAUM DER MENSCHLICHKEIT 17 SEPTEMBER-11 OCTOBER 1998 Visiting artist Franz Ehmann spent many hours writing text on the gallery wall and floor with vivid blue pastel, and pouring an island of powder-pigment of the same intense hue in creating this installation work. Ehmann's installation was an evocative and complex work. The concept of a subjectivity figured by language is important (don't forget the image on the exhibition invitation of the artist with the word 'perish' written across the skin over his shoulderblade). The sickle blade coated with intense blue pigment suggested a comma, the ledger book had a space cut out like a window looking on to the night sky. The vivid 'pool' of pigment suggested the origin and destination for all the blue words written on the floor around it: an intense humanity beyond language. |
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| installation views | Documentation Photography by Stephen Gray |