This exhibition at MARUANI MERCIER brings Stefan BRÜGGEMANN’s Hyper-Palimpsest and On KAWARA’sToday series together for the first time. The works share a central concern in their engagement with the experience of time and being in the world.
Where KAWARA’s work explores these ideas in series, developing his investigation from one canvas to the next over the course of a lifetime, BRÜGGEMANN works on a different axis. His engagement with these questions is a layered exploration that belies an archaeological sensibility in its emphasis on depth and its invitation to the viewer to dig down into the work. BRÜGGEMANN’s work requires that the viewer spend time unearthing and piecing together its fragments, while KAWARA’s work plays with the fragmentation of time revealing the deeply arbitrary nature of the symbols and systems that we use to codify it.
Stefan Brüggemann, Hyper-Palimpsest, 2019 Acrylic and spray paint on wood, 2 panels, each: 205 x 120 x 5.5 cm / 80 3/4 x 47 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches Installed dimensions: 205 x 240 x 5.5 cm / 80 3/4 x 94 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches
Between these axes of contemplation and immediacy we can chart the hyper-consciousness of the modern self: caught in semiotic structures that fragment our experience and leave us to search among the pieces.
HYPER-CONSCIOUS by Stefan BRÜGGEMANN & On KAWARA From 25th March to 25thApril 2021 MARUANI MERCIER Avenue Louise 430 in Brussels
Stefan Brüggemann, Hyper-Palimpsest, 2019 Acrylic and spray paint on wood, 2 panels, each: 205 x 120 x 5.5 cm / 80 3/4 x 47 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches Installed dimensions: 205 x 240 x 5.5 cm / 80 3/4 x 94 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches
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Coinciding with the US elections on November 3rd 2020, artist Stefan Brüggemann will unveil a new public artwork on the US / Mexico Border at Tijuana, Baja California, titled ‘Truth / Lie’ on view to the public until January 10th.
UNLEASHED SPEED UNLEASHED SPEECH (MISFITS) a group exhibition curated by London and Mexico City-based contemporary artist Stefan Brüggemann will open on September 5, 2020, and will continue on view through October 10 at KOTARO NUKAGA Tokyo
In ‘Online Disconnected (Hyper-Poem Lockdown)’ (2020) Brüggemann’s choice of words force us to reflect on our online existence of scrolling and constant consumption.
