“If there‘s one thing I know how to do, it‘s look.” Hans-Peter Feldmann
On the occasion of Hans-Peter Feldmann‘s 75th birthday, C/O Berlin is presenting a retrospective with around 250 images. The photographic exhibition offers an overview of his complete works – starting with positions of the late 1960s and continuing up to his latest work. For the exhibition, curated by Felix Hoffmann and Greta Kühnast, an artist book entitled Nur für Privat (Only for Private) will be published in the Verlag Walther König.
Amazement, agreement, outrage, lack of understanding, euphoria and joy – Hans-Peter Feldmann’s images of everyday life provoke strong reactions. How can modest, banal photographs of women‘s clothing, car radios, refrigerators, strawberries, sunsets, bathing beauties or newspaper titles develop such strong effectualness? Hans-Peter Feldmann helps himself to the unlimited pool of public images and shows us what images really are through artistic interventions, new arrangements and charming appropriation: media exponents of visualized memories, associations and desires. He confronts the viewer with their own pictorial world and perception and avoids any kind of categorization and assigning of meaning with his artwork. That‘s because a meaning only emerges – if at all – through the interpretation of the viewer. And that can turn out to be extremely controversial depending on individual experiences, conventions and expectations.
