HD, 16:9, 07′ 52″
Exhibtions: Frise, Hamburg (DE) / Westwerk, Hamburg (DE) / Video Screening “Working, Crawling” curated by Adam Szymczyk (JP)
Images: Catalogue “DELIKATELINIEN” / Broschüre “FRISE – Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V.”
Category Archives: Works
Die Vogelwelt Europas und ihre Verbreitung
C-Print, 10 pieces, each 40 x 50 cm
The atlas “Die Vogelwelt” from 1962 shows in 420 graphics the distribution of birds inhabiting Europe over all continents. Graphics overlaid with the distribution of 480 species of birds inhabiting Europe. Kawabe overlaid 42 species of birds for each graphic.
Exhibitions: Ermekeilkaserne, Bonn (DE) / Take Maracke & Partner, Kiel (DE)
Image: Katalog “DELIKATELINIEN”
Der Weg II
C-print, acrylic lacquer, charcoal, glass, 4 peaces, each 30 x 40 cm
Exhibition: Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP)
Continent of Africa / Routes of Migratory
paper, nail
Photo: Kenichi Amano
There are territorial, geographical, biological, social, economic, moral, aesthetic, performance and decency limits.
In the work “Routes of Migratory” (2015), the silhouette made of coloured cardboard traces the flight routes of migratory birds, and in the work “Continent of Africa” (2015), all boundary lines are seen on the continent Africa. The colourful outlines are loosely hung on small needles, they could be exchanged, removed or replaced. They are fragile and provisional, endangered and changeable, too.
It is striking that the flight paths of the birds on their annual migrations from Africa to Europe and back draw flowing, round and playfully light lines. This makes it possible to associate the boundlessness of flight and any kind of footprint as utopia. The harmonious forms are a counterpart to the often jagged and sharp-edged appearing state boundaries on the southern continent, whose arbitrary drawings document the political drama of Africa.
Exhibtions: Ermkeilkaserne, Bonn (DE) / Frappant, Hamburg (DE) / Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP) / VOLTA 14, Basel (CH)
Image: Catalogue “DELIKATELINIEN”
Wandermüde
Metal, mirror, string, plastic, paper, wood, LED, video (HD, 12’40 ),
photo (State Archive Hamburg 720-1 151-81= 17 131), wooden crate: 205 x 146 x 166 cm
The German-Jewish writer, Heinrich Heine, who lived in Paris in exile. Even the 1891 monument to him, ordered by the Austrian empress Sisi, was taken on an involuntary journey from Rome via Corfu to Hamburg, Marseille and Toulon. Heine’s monument was repeatedly set up in these various locations and then diminished, reviled, smeared, or damaged until it was finally hidden in a wooden crate (for 23 years long). “Wandermüde” is a mixed-media installation about the Odyssey of Heine´s sculptural monument. The video shows the currently view of the statue at the Botanic Gardens in Toulon (2014) and the process of the journey the statue.
Exhibition: Galerie im Marstall, Ahrensburg (DE)
Images: catalogue “DELIKATELINIEN” / catalogue “Von Wörtern und Räumen”
Expurgation
Page, zinc
Exhibtions: Fukuoka Art Museum, (JP) / Frappant, Hamburg (DE) / Port Gallery T, Osaka (JP) / VOLTA 14, Basel (CH) / Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP)
Images: Katalog “IN SEARCH OF CRITICAL IMAGINATION”
Horizon
Charcoal, glass
Exhibtions: Fukuoka Art Museum, (JP) / Frappant, Hamburg (DE) / Take Maracke & Partner, Kiel (DE) / Schloß Agarthenburg, Agarthenburg (DE)
Images: Catalogue “In Search Of Critical Imagination“
Restrict
Exhibtion: 8. Kunstfrühling, Bremen (DE)
Images: Catalogue “8. Kunstfrühling” / Catalogue “DELIKATELINIEN” / Book “Transitorisch”
Optiker
Metal, plastic, mirror, cardboard, glass, wood, motor, LED light, size variable
A swarm of spheres with different sizes, colors and material, floats in the space. More than 200 spheres made of blunt lead, reflecting glass, colorful plastic, are hanging with invisible threads from the ceiling and are irradiated by a moving spotlight. At first glance the sphere´s swarm looks like an unstructured cloud which keeps faintly moving by the breeze. The colorful swarm is illuminated by a spotlight, placed on a motor, which turns right and left like a searchlight so that the moving shades of the spheres form a sentence fragment on the wall. The sentence, “Die Neige des Menschen”, is a quotation from Walter Benjamin´s essay, “Einbahnstraße”, poem “Optiker” (1928)
Document of installation “Optiker” 2014 at Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
1′ 09
Exhibtion: Fukuoka Art Museum, (JP)
Images: Katalog “IN SEARCH OF CRITICAL IMAGINATION”
Deutsche Spirits
2011-2013, B/W Baryt-Print
Exhibtions: STORE Contemporary, Dresden (DE) / Port Gallery T, Osaka (JP) / Wassermühle Trittau (DE) / Galerie du Tableau, Marseille (FR) / Waitingroom, Tokyo (JP)
Image: Catalogue “Observer Effect“