Der goldene Schnitt in Essen
CR 90. Year 1987
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Die Ordnung, die ihr Vergessen nennt
Jochen Gerz befaßt sich seit vielen Jahren mit Erinnerung – seine Arbeiten entstehen in Kooperation mit der Öffentlichkeit. Die direkte Partizipation ist ein zentrales Motiv, die der Künstler als Praxis gegen die Folgenlosigkeit von Geschichte, aber auch von Kunst und Demokratie stellt.
Helen Adkins 2005
For many years now Jochen Gerz has been preoccupied with recollection. He creates his work in co-operation with the public. His central motif is direct participation as a practice directed against the inconsequentiality of history, of art and democracy.
Helen Adkins 2005
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Work in public space
Essen, Germany
7 billboards (b/w photographs on yellow photo paper), each 260 x 360 cm, approx. 10 posters (b/w photographs on yellow photo paper) each between 160 x 60cm and 300 x 60 cm
The work is executed as part of a project commissioned by the Folkwang Museum in Essen. Jochen Gerz selects photographs of the bombing destruction in Essen taken in 1945 from the archives of city photographer Willi von Heekern. The same locations are photographed by the present city photographer in 1987 again. Gerz creates montages from the material based on the principle of the golden section. Past and present visually complement one another in these pieces. The sentence Die Ordnung, die ihr Vergessen nennt (The order you call forgetting) appears on them. The billboards are placed in situ in such a way that viewers see the location depicted on the billboard in front of them.
Realisations
Südeingang Hauptbahnhof, Huyssenallee/Ecke Skaggerakstraße, Gänsemarkt 16-18, Kopstadtplatz, Limbecker Straße, Kronprinzen-/Helbingstraße, Theaterplatz, U-Bahn Linie U 11, U 17, U 18, 1.10. - 31.10.1987
Publications
I: Düsseldorf 1988, pp. 84-89. Graz 1988, p. 37. Bolzano 1999
II: Stachelhaus 1987. Gravel 1991, p. 39
III: Durand 1990, p. 122
IV: Buchwald 2, 1989, pp. 118-122
V: Koriath 1989, pp. 125-131