ERASE / THE PAST

CR 396. Year 1990

Erase The Past Jochen Gerz Cr 396 Web

ERASE
THE PAST

In his photo and word installations that refer increasingly to the medium of television, particularly to the turning on and off of images, Gerz recreates that distance and brings forth a place for contemplation. The real pictures come about in the viewer’s head. The unattainable image “inbetween”, in the gap in the middle, is pushed to extremes by Gerz in “ERASE. THE PAST”, (1990).

Doris von Drahten 1992

Mixed Media Photograph

ERASE # 2: 2 framed b+w photographs, 1 of them with text collage (red vinyl), each 27,2 x 19,7 cm, total 27,2 x 40,4 cm

THE PAST # 3: 2 framed b+w photographs, 1 of them with text collage (red and black vinyl), each 64,2 x 46,5 cm, total 64,2 x 94 cm

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Exhibitions

Berlin 1991. Strasbourg 1994

Bibliography

I: Bremen 1992, pp. 24, 133

II: Kreis 1991. Müller 1991, p. 33. Plewina 1991. Durand 1999

III: Wulffen 1992, p. 30

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My name is Jochen Gerz