Naomi Tereza Salmon
July 13 - August 11, 2007
Guest Curator presents the work of seven artists from across Europe and North America. The exhibition is curated by Naomi Tereza Salmon, an Israeli born artist, living and working in Weimar, Germany. It features painting, installation, video, photography and letters as well as "ready-made" objects.
For this exhibition, Naomi Tereza Salmon was invited to put together a show under the constraint that it ultimately be titled Guest Curator, and this concept was to act as the first step from which the exhibition be assembled. From the beginning then, the exhibition autonomy and concept of "curating" were compromised.
What follows are a series of works that investigate questions of privilege or choice, and appropriation. In the work of Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau, we see modernist, monochromatic painting rendered as labor by South American shoe polishers, who were paid by the artists to apply polish to a leather canvas until it became a "painting". In another act of appropriation, a letter sent to an autograph collector by Dieter Roth, states that he only signs "works of art", and is subsequently signed by the artist. The piece, which comes on loan from a private collector, was acquired on eBay. Dana Berg's oil painting depicts a voyeuristic glance on someone else's point of view; Nikos Arvanitis' object serves as a statement on entertainment; Tegan Forbes exchanges private information in public; Robert Elias Wachholz presents an unreadable book and the John Erickson Museum of Art presents a mini museum within the gallery, featuring a work by John Feodorov.
Guest Curator offers in a Droste effect manner, a take on the diversity of appropriation art, manifesting all its components in one show: a gallery, a curator, a concept, a museum, a collector, young artists, international artists, a dead artist, auctioned and signed paraphernalia, and musical entertainment for the opening. All media is present: object, painting, letter, intervention and documentation of an intervention, interactive art, web and video - and all in less than 25 square meters of space.
Guest Curator: Nikos Arvanitis (GR), Dana Berg (DE), Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau (US), John Erickson Museum of Art Presents: John Feodorov (US), Tegan Forbes (CA), Dieter Roth (DE), Robert Elias Wachholz (DE). Musical Act: MOSH MOSH (DE). Naomi Tereza Salmon (IL/DE) was born in 1965 in Jerusalem, Israel. Salmon studied at the MFA "Public Art and new artistic Strategies" at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. She is an artist as well as an independent curator and also works as a moderator and member of the advisory board of the non-commercial radio station, Radio Lotte in Weimar.
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