I proudly announce the opening of stageBACK gallery, a space from an artist for artists in Shanghai, China.
We had our # 0 opening on april 19 2008 and it was a big success, thanks to all of you who came by.
The idea to open an art space blossomed in the fall of 2007 with the wish to be a part of Shanghais fast growing urban culture.
Especially in our days, cultural and intellectual exchange between the West and the East are of great importance.
This is what this space stands for: FREEDOM - ART - PARTY.
Artist on view: Chrils Gill (painting) Andy Guhl (sound performance) Susanne Junker (photo and installation).
Strafraum 86 may be interpreted as an attempt to address the act of self-sabotage & loss of individuality in our mass-consumerist era. Corporal puppets branded with multiple prints are strewn in a circle beneath an intimidating framed Kagemusha figure, an omniscient sentinel of a forbearing presence. The soft-sculptures are piled upon one another, at random, an orgiastic scene of identical beings merging as one extenuated self, a poignant display of the multiplicity of the -one- and the confused identification with the -other-.
Strafraum 86 is the first public presentation of this provocative German photographer's spatial creations, the installations title in translation Penal Room is a proclamation against the domination of the individual/individuality and subjugation of the self within the blind machinations of the market-centric, consumerist society of today.
