Invitation to the Opening on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 5 – 10 pm
OWEN LAND: How can you believe anything he says?!
The exhibition How can you believe anything he says?! is Owen Land’s first solo exhibition in Germany. The presented works are: Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1965-66), No Sir, Orison! (1975), New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (1976), Undesirables (Excerpts from a Work in Progress) (1999) and Dialogues (2007-09).
With: Alphonse Allais, John Baldessari, Harun Farocki, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfredo Jaar, Sean Snyder, Nedko Solakov, Javier Téllez, Luc Tuymans, David Zink Yi
The exhibition FOR THE USE OF THOSE WHO SEE presents works that reveal the boundaries of the visual and display a firm belief in the image. The difference between mimesis and reality—inherent to every work of art—is foregrounded in the picture itself. The risk of failing at this point is deeply embedded in the consciousness of these works and yet is also convincingly depicted.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69
10117 Berlin
November 22, 2009 – January 24, 2010
