Photo: 24th Mar '11
May 8-30 2011
Opening: May 8th 2011, 7 pm
In May 2011 Kunstraum Richard Sorge presents Jens Kloppmann’s “slachten”. Opening on the historically significant date of May 8th, the day of German capitulation in WWII, the solo exhibition by the noted Berlin-based conceptual artist thematizes war.
The main piece of “slachten” will be a large mural work made out of fretwork. Hundreds of painstakingly hand cut figures will be installed by the artist, amounting to a huge ornamental “war painting”.
Liberally using and recombining familiar silhouettes and vignetters from our collective memory, art history, and war reportage, Kloppmann depicts a broad panorama of war in all its stages: attack, counter attack, displacement.
A selection from Kloppmann’s Bulllet Boulevard series will also be on view; gypsum replicas of war damages taken from facades of the cityscape of Berlin.
www.kloppmann.org/
www.kunstraumrichardsorge.org/
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