WHERE:
Affentor / Fahrgasse 23, Frankfurt, Germany
WHEN: 9th-10th May 2014
COST: FREE
"We live in pictures. They are a part of
every life, and everyone has built his or her personal relationship
with them. In visual art, reality and fiction become pictorial. The
artist's results are manifold and direct. The picture in itself can be
both friend and enemy. It is part of the family and of life. This is
particularly true in the artist's view and phantasy. The artists work
with the pictures in their heads every day, in nature, on the wall in
front of their eyes. Friendships and relationships form. If one
separates from one's work, the putative friendship lasts. To a friend
one may say everything, ask him everything, love and hate him; he can be
beautiful or ugly, boring or exciting. Which friend do I prefer to be
seen with and which friendship is too intimate for public disclosure, or
are there no boundaries at all?
"mon
amie - l'image" is this year's title of vkunstfrankfurt. It is in its
nature (in the nature of the case) that art is primarily a visual
experience for the viewer. With this in mind, the curators of
vkunstfrankfurt, Christoph von Löw and Andreas Greulich, let themselves
be guided in their concept of the sensuous-pictorial aspect of video
art. What meaning may the image have for the video artist? Is it just an
end in itself and appearances? Is the aesthetic deliberately negated,
and the improvised, i.e. the non-professional, emphasized? What does the
examination of the picture of our time place emphasis on? It is the
task of vkunstfrankfurt 2014 to investigate this."
