lonelyfingers
Konversationsstücke
(Conversation Pieces)
March 17–June 2, 2013
Museum Abteiberg
Abteistr. 27
41061 Mönchengladbach
www.lonelyfingers.com
www.museum-abteiberg.de
Conversations with artists, coffee and cake on the following dates (Sundays) at 4pm:
17 March Jay Batlle, 24 March Tom Sloan and Jade Niklai, 7 April Diango Hernández and Anne Pöhlmann, 21 April Rita McBride, 5 May Jaroslaw Flinciński, 19 May Daniel Barroca, 2 June Glen Rubsamen
Konversationsstücke (Conversation Pieces) is the first lonelyfingers presentation in a physical space. Lonelyfingers is an online platform created in 2012 by visual artists Diango Hernández and Anne Pöhlmann. Lonelyfingers practice focuses on the objects and documents that accompany and inspire artists while developing an artwork.
For Konversationsstücke lonelyfingers artists will bring to the exhibition space objects and references that could start a conversation between the artist and the audience. These objects, often unknown and hidden in the artists studios, will be now shared.
Featured artists in Konversationsstücke: Daniel Barroca, Jay Batlle, Jarosław Fliciński, Jessica Gispert, Manuel Graf, Owen Gump, Diango Hernández, Rita McBride, Anne Pöhlmann, Glen Rubsamen, Tom Sloan and Monika Stricker.
“Certainly we can live without objects but it is not clear if we would be able to remember without having them around. We use Finds* as points of reference, they guide us through complicated trips and while creating they keep us away from the emptiness that a blank piece of paper carries. Finds exist to remember and we create artworks to be remembered.
In Luis Barragán’s Mexico City residency there is a piece of furniture that looks like an umbrella. It has a single standing foot and ends with four tilted flat surfaces that resemble a pyramid. On this fascinating object Barragán displayed books, prints and drawings that he was currently working with. Often friends visited him and he would share and discuss with them what was temporarily displayed on his ‘umbrella’. Sometimes he asked his friends to take as a present one of his Finds.
If I would have been one of Barragán’s guests and he would have asked me to choose between one of his Finds and one of his actual artworks, without hesitation I would have taken the Find. Would you take just a glass of water or the whole spring?”
Lonelyfingers’ presentation at the Museum Abteiberg functions as the Barragán ‘umbrella’. Inside the exhibition Konversationsstücke you can see objects that belong to the creative process of artists. Those ‘magic’ references are as relevant as the ideas they have triggered and as consistent as the artworks they helped to create.
*Finds: Found objects, documents or any kind of found material used directly or indirectly in the process of creating an artwork.
