Wolfgang Plöger
to the point
28 November 2009 – 7 February 2010
Opening: 27 November 09, 7:30 p.m.
Künstlerhaus Bremen
Am Deich 68 / 69
D- 28199 Bremen
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Opening hours: Wed – Sun // 2:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Plöger’s oeuvre is wide-ranging both in its themes and in the media used. Two quite different issues repeatedly overlap, confronting strongly formalist works with a series of critical socio-political works. In terms of technique, Plöger uses not only drawing and sculpture, but also 16 mm and Super8 film. The latter medium is of major importance in the exhibition to the point at the Künstlerhaus Bremen.
For his animated films Plöger first does drawings whose expression can be both realistic-narrative, or formally reduced, sketchily linear. Due to the subsequent transformation into film, the motifs begin to move, jumping around the projection plane, albeit without concealing the rough and ready charm of the evident hand drawing. These works do not remain two-dimensional, but expand into the three-dimensional when the film strip is stretched out on the floor or between floor and ceiling. In addition to the swiftly moving film sequences and the rattling of the projectors, long film loops cut through the room, so that the materiality of the celluloid itself plus the projectors become an essential part of the exhibition.
The space between us (2006) shows two animated beams of light projected into a corner of the room by projectors placed at an angle of about 90 degrees to one another. The two light beams are constantly moving: turning slightly, getting bigger or smaller and wandering up and down. Between them an illusory space unfolds which is also constantly changing, analogous to the movement of the light beams. Beside this piece is Untitled (2009), a drawn line projected onto and gently circling a rope attached to the ceiling. Finally, to the point is one of those works which links the artist’s two complexes of works. Based on a collection of the last statements of death-row candidates, Plöger has gathered the punctuation marks, mainly full stops, photocopied them and edited them to form a film. The result is a wealth of copies with dots, fragments of letters, etc. and a film about a black square dancing over and back on the projection plane. Plöger’s exhibition to the point unites four new works all of which use the dot and the line as original artistic expressions and convey their complexity by making their narrative and geometrical forms flow into one another.
Wolfgang Plöger (*1971) lives in Berlin and studied art at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel. He has had solo and group exhibitions at westlondonprojects, Artis den Bosch, KW, and the Stella Lohaus, Georg Kargl and Konrad Fischer galleries. to the point at the Künstlerhaus Bremen is his first solo exhibition at an art institution in Germany.
The exhibition to the point is being subsidised by the Stiftung Kunstfonds.
Programme:
Sun 7 February, 4.00 p.m. / Artist talk with Wolfgang Plöger
Guided tours:
Wed 27 January 10, 7:00 p.m.
