Déjà vu: The Moment of Belatedness in Contemporary Art
20 October 2005 – 26 February 2006
Atelier Augarten Center for Contemporary Art
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Scherzergasse 1a
1020 Vienna, Austria
Tuesday-Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Curated by: Thomas Trummer
Assistant Curator: Roswitha Bittner
Anna Gaskell – Isabell Heimerdinger – Constantin Luser – Jan Mancuska – Martina Steckholzer – David Thorpe – Clemens von Wedemeyer
Who does not know that illusion of feeling that you have experienced a completely new situation before? The moment of clear-sightedness only lasts fractions of seconds but leaves behind a powerful and unnerving impression. The tenses seem to merge together and future and past overlap. It is not only that we become aware of a seemingly past experience but we also gain the sense that we have seen into the future.”Déjà vu” is a subject well suited to art. Film is an especially good medium to vividly translate the sense of replay in “déjà vu” and can effectively convey the sensation of memory tricks. Pictures also provide a good opportunity to express this phenomenon. In contrast to “déjà vu”, the reproducible picture captures a fleeting moment from the present and thus records a past happening. These synchronisations of past and present, presence and absence, seeing and remembering, and surprise and recognition are characteristics not only of “déjà vu” but also of reproducible images.
The exhibition will draw together positions exclusively from contemporary art. A catalogue of 204 pages will be published by Schlebruegge, Vienna in conjunction with the exhibition with a comprehensive catalogue of full colour images and texts by Henri Bergson, Heike Maier, Gerhard Neumann, Peter Krapp, Beat Wyss and Thomas Trummer.
Atelier Augarten
Center for Contemporary Art
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Scherzergasse 1a
1020 Vienna, Austria www.atelier-augarten.at www.belvedere.at
Opening Hours
Tuesday-Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Closed on Mondays, closed 24 and 25 December
Information
public@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
T 43/1/79 557-134 F -136
press info
presse@belvedere.at
T 43/1/79 557-113 F -130
Klaus Pokorny
Head of PR/Marketing Dept.
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
(Austrian Gallery Belvedere)
Academic Institution under Public Law
Prinz Eugen-Str. 27
A-1030 Vienna
T 43/79 557-178 F -130
M 43/664/3838 91 14
E pokorny@belvedere.at H www.belvedere.at
