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This exhibition features work by fourteen artists selected for the DAAD British Artists' Programme. Presenting a cross-generational section of Britain's artistic landscape the artists are: Victor Burgin, Mat Collishaw, Tacita Dean, Willie Doherty, Douglas Gordon, Richard Hamilton, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Vong Phaophanit, Richard Wentworth, Rachel Whiteread, Stephen Willats, Richard Wilson and Jane and Louise Wilson. All have spent time living and working in Germany, mainly in Berlin, and the selection includes works that relate to German locations and events. Covering a broad spectrum of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation as well as sound and video work, Double Vision showcases the work of some of the most central figures in the contemporary British art scene.
Double Vision demonstrates how the concept of exchange, combined with a readiness to experience and investigate new surroundings, contains the potential to stimulate cultural and political dialogue in both art and society. It was Rachel Whiteread’s stay in Berlin which gave impetus to her Holocaust memorial in Vienna’s Judenplatz. But also in other, less spectacular works, the evolution of a new perception is discernible. This is reflected in the title and expanded within the exhibition.
A fully illustrated published by the Leipzig gallery, with support from the Henry Moore Foundation and the DAAD, accompanied the exhibition.
For further information please contact Brett Rogers |
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