Oliver Pietsch: The Shape of Things

»Douglas Gordon, whom we all know very well by one of the remakes of postproduction art-works, the twenty-four hour long Psycho from 1993, calls the procurement of film and music fragments a temporal ready-made.
The video works by Oliver Pietsch could be labelled the same. His discomforting and troubled world is founded methodologically upon a manipulation of a film-production representation. Pietsch takes the fragments from their original context, and explores the forms and stereotypes of cinematographic representation. In this way Pietsch is designing an archive of popular culture, utilizing the decontextualization of the used material to create a new product – a video work. By collecting stereotypical representations, Pietsch links them to a meticulous editing and a sophisticated musical background, giving them a particular emotional quality.«
Tatjana Orbović

Curator: Tatjana Orbović
December 2nd 2011 – December 13th 2011
Opening: December 2nd 2011 at 8pm
KiBela / KIBLA Maribor
KiBela, Space for art, is open on weekdays from 9am to10pm, Saturdays from 4pm to 10pm, and closed on Sundays.

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Support: EU-EACEA, Culture program, Brussels, Ministry of culture, Municipality of Maribor, Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth.