MALMO
KONSTHALL
Magnus
Wallin, Solo, 2002, Computer generated Lambda prints, 175 x 175 cm,
Courtesy: Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
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MAGNUS
WALLIN
SOLO/PHYSICAL SIGHTSEEING
Opening, Friday September 13, 19-21.
September 14 - November 10, 2002
MALMO KONSTHALL
Box 17127
SE-200 10 Malmo
Sweden
tel +46 40 34 12 94
fax +46 40 30 15 07
mobil +46 708 34 12 94
lena.leeb@malmo.se
http://www.konsthall.malmo.se
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MAGNUS WALLIN
SOLO/PHYSICAL SIGHTSEEING
September 14 - November 10, 2002
Members of the press are cordially invited to a preview on Thursday,
September 12 at 11 a.m. Together with the artist appointed director
Anna
Holmbom will introduce the exhibition. Afterwards, at about 12 oclock
lunch will be served in the restaurant.
The exhibition consists of newly produced computer generated Lambda
prints, Solo and computer animated
films from the 1997-2000 series Physical Sightseeing: Exit,
Limbo,
Physical Paradise and Skyline.
The exhibition is produced with support from the Kulturbro Foundation
and
is part of the biennial Kulturbro 2002 celebration.
If you want further information or pressphotos before the pressmeeting
or
if you want to book an interview,
please dont hesitate to contact me. You can also download pressphotos
from http://www.konsthall.malmo.se
Opening, Friday September 13, 19-21.
Kind regards
Lena Leeb-Lundberg
tel +46 40 34 12 94 / +46 708 34 12 94 / fax +46 40 30 15 07
lena.leeb@malmo.se / http://www.konsthall.malmo.se
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PRESS RELEASE
MAGNUS WALLIN
SOLO/Physical Sightseeing
September 14 November 10, 2002
The exhibition consists of newly produced Lambda prints, Solo and
computer-animated films from the 1997-2000 series Physical
Sightseeing:
Exit, Limbo, Physical Paradise and Skyline.
A violent firestorm surges up a long corridor. A number of handicapped
and
disabled human figures are trying in vain to escape the flames. Every
time
the fire surrounds and burns a victim, increasing applause is heard.
Athletically built men swing in trapezes out into space and are crushed
against a high tower. They fall in pieces down to the dissecting table
in
an anatomical theatre.
Magnus Wallin uses the imagery of computer games in his films, but they
are about the human body and its physique, and how the body was and is
depicted and perceived in former times and today. The observer is struck
by the intensity of the short film sequences and Wallins subjective
approach to the vulnerability of people who deviate from the norm. Two
body types are contrasted with each other. In Skyline, the
heroicized
athletic bodies obediently throw themselves out into empty space. We are
delighted by the musculature of the perfect body; we watch and praise it
in sports arenas; we let it seduce us in advertising and fashion, but we
also watch it perish in the gladiatorial games of our age. In contrast
to
this, we are shown the limping, deviating figures who are vainly and in
panic trying to save themselves from the pursuing fire in Exit.
The
figures represent the bodies which we often choose to be blind to: the
deformed and unusable that we feel forced to hide, correct, tame and
adapt. We see the body as good or evil, beautiful or ugly, suitable to a
purpose or worthless. What is perfect is an expression of divine
harmony;
what deviates too much from the ruling ideal of beauty and works badly
or
not at all frightens us. A body that deviates is one which rebels and
exposes hierarchies, and which challenges our preconceptions.
Magnus Wallin works with 3D animation, a medium that is usually
associated
with computer games and the entertainment industry. In his works he does
not strive for realism in the true meaning of the word. Instead he
explores how we create concepts and ideologies by using and reusing
images; Hieronymus Bosch, Leni Riefenstahls films and psychedelic
visions
of paradise are mixed together freely and naturally. They are reawakened
to life and, without being categorised or evaluated, are brought into
todays visual culture, becoming an expression of how we now interpret
and
experience the human body. But we are still also influenced by ideas
from
past times.
Magnus Wallin has chosen to use his medium in order to also be able to
explore and comment on how it is used in our culture. By using the form
of
expression that is now one of the most frequently used in popular
culture,
instead of a more traditional artistic technique, he brings his art and
message directly into the age in which we live. Magnus Wallin was born
in
1965 in Kåseberga. He lives and works in Malmö. He studied at the
Royal
Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1989 to 95 and has strong
ties with Denmark. In recent years he has participated in several major
prestigious events including in 2001 the Venice Biennale and the
Istanbul Biennial.
Information: Phone +46 (0)40 34 12 94 info.konsthall@malmo.se
http://www.konsthall.malmo.se
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