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NEW YORK. AN EXHIBITION of the work of German artist Hans-Peter
Feldmann (b. 1941, Dusseldorf), winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010,
is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, until November 2, 2011.
Feldmann is the eighth artist to win this prestigious biennial award,
established in 1996 by HUGO BOSS and the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art.
Feldmann has spent over four decades conducting a profound investigation
into the influence of the visual environment on our subjective reality.
Composing images and objects into serial archives, uncanny combinations,
and other illuminating new contexts, his work unearths the latent associations
and sentiments contained within the landscape of daily life. As the 2010
prizewinner, Feldmann received an honorarium of $100,000, and for his solo
exhibition at the Guggenheim, he has chosen to pin this exact amount in
overlapping one-dollar bills to the gallery walls.
The installation, which uses money that has previously been in circulation,
extends the artist’s lifelong obsession with collecting familiar material into
simple groupings that reveal a nuanced play of similarity and difference.
Throughout his practice, Feldmann has frequently demonstrated the
impulse to divide an apparent whole into separate components; he has
photographed every item in a woman’s wardrobe (All the clothes of a woman,
1973), presented individual images of the strawberries that make up a pound
of fruit (One Pound Strawberries, 2005), and created a sequence of 100
portraits showing individuals of every age in a collective lifespan of a century
(100 Years, 2001).
Feldmann also has a history of resisting the art world’s commercial
structures, issuing his work in unsigned, unlimited editions and at one point
retiring from art making altogether for nearly a decade in the 1980s. Bank
notes, like artworks, are objects that have no inherent worth beyond what
society agrees to invest them with, and in using them as his medium,
Feldmann raises questions about notions of value in art. But his primary
interest in the serial display of currency lies less in its status as a symbol of
capitalist excess than in its ubiquity as a mass-produced image and a
material with which we come into contact every day. At its core, this formal
experiment presents an opportunity to experience an abstract concept—a
numerical figure and the economic possibilities it entails—as a visual object
and an immersive physical environment.
THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann is organized by
Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Feldmann (b. 1941, Dusseldorf), winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010,
is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, until November 2, 2011.
Feldmann is the eighth artist to win this prestigious biennial award,
established in 1996 by HUGO BOSS and the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art.
Feldmann has spent over four decades conducting a profound investigation
into the influence of the visual environment on our subjective reality.
Composing images and objects into serial archives, uncanny combinations,
and other illuminating new contexts, his work unearths the latent associations
and sentiments contained within the landscape of daily life. As the 2010
prizewinner, Feldmann received an honorarium of $100,000, and for his solo
exhibition at the Guggenheim, he has chosen to pin this exact amount in
overlapping one-dollar bills to the gallery walls.
The installation, which uses money that has previously been in circulation,
extends the artist’s lifelong obsession with collecting familiar material into
simple groupings that reveal a nuanced play of similarity and difference.
Throughout his practice, Feldmann has frequently demonstrated the
impulse to divide an apparent whole into separate components; he has
photographed every item in a woman’s wardrobe (All the clothes of a woman,
1973), presented individual images of the strawberries that make up a pound
of fruit (One Pound Strawberries, 2005), and created a sequence of 100
portraits showing individuals of every age in a collective lifespan of a century
(100 Years, 2001).
Feldmann also has a history of resisting the art world’s commercial
structures, issuing his work in unsigned, unlimited editions and at one point
retiring from art making altogether for nearly a decade in the 1980s. Bank
notes, like artworks, are objects that have no inherent worth beyond what
society agrees to invest them with, and in using them as his medium,
Feldmann raises questions about notions of value in art. But his primary
interest in the serial display of currency lies less in its status as a symbol of
capitalist excess than in its ubiquity as a mass-produced image and a
material with which we come into contact every day. At its core, this formal
experiment presents an opportunity to experience an abstract concept—a
numerical figure and the economic possibilities it entails—as a visual object
and an immersive physical environment.
THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann is organized by
Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010: HANS-PETER FELDMANN
Installation view: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 20–November 2, 2011
Photo: Kristopher McKay
© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010: HANS-PETER FELDMANN
Installation view: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 20–November 2, 2011
Photo: David Heald
© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010: HANS-PETER FELDMANN
Installation view: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 20–November 2, 2011
Photo: David Heald
© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
$100,000 prize money installation
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Solo exhibition - Guggenheim, NY
Solo exhibition - Guggenheim, NY
In November 2010, Feldmann was selected as the prizewinner from a shortlist of finalists that included Cao Fei, Roman Ondak, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The award is given to an artist whose work represents a significant development in contemporary art and sets no restrictions in terms of age, gender, race, nationality, or medium.
The jury for the 2010 prize was chaired by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and the jurors were Udo Kittelmann, Director, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Yasmil Raymond, Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York; Joan Young, Associate Curator of
Contemporary Art and Manager of Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Tirdad
Zolghadr, independent writer and curator. In the official award statement, the jury described its selection: “A key influence on generations of younger artists, Feldmann’s work exhibits a vitality and keen originality that places it among the most compelling work being produced today. It is this critical engagement with the moment that we recognize in awarding him the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010.”
The jury for the 2010 prize was chaired by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and the jurors were Udo Kittelmann, Director, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Yasmil Raymond, Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York; Joan Young, Associate Curator of
Contemporary Art and Manager of Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Tirdad
Zolghadr, independent writer and curator. In the official award statement, the jury described its selection: “A key influence on generations of younger artists, Feldmann’s work exhibits a vitality and keen originality that places it among the most compelling work being produced today. It is this critical engagement with the moment that we recognize in awarding him the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010.”
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