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An exhibition of art. Hans-Peter Feldmann.

9 / 12. Photo: Nacho Plaza

An art exhibition is apparently an anaphoric title for an exhibition of an artist in a Art Center. What else could it be?

The work shown in the Reina Sofía of Hans-Peter Feldmann ( Düsseldorf, 1941) are art, but the objects are not working: bicycles or plastic pots with geraniums. What we see, showcases contemporary objects in the style of the cabinets of wonders of the seventeenth century, postcards, photocopies, photographs unframed the collages with images of works of art reproduced in magazines, on the front of his oil paintings, installations in the air leaving the intrigue, the mystery - shadow play - the David of Miguel Angel polychrome plaster bright pink, with yellow pubes, evoking memories kitsch for tourists, are everyday objects, banal in its seriality, and the context in which they are displayed, question authority and cause the viewer to reflect on what is art.

Photo: Nacho Plaza

This contrasts with other recent exhibition at the Museum, exhaustive in the documentation that explains the work. Here are a few brackets, only works, neatly displayed, giving the viewer the freedom to extend or images meanings within. And thanks, much, the freedom that the artist gives us that screens our way what we are shown. In one room we are taught surrealist objects between evil and bad sculpture on the theme: bad art also have the right to exist .... but in a corner of the room, a piece of charred paper and some matches seem prepared to create a pyre iconoclast. Feldmann has the power to make the story was finished when the viewer fits the pieces to their own devices.

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But this should only talk about photographic image. And the reflection of Feldmann on the photographic image is a key contribution to the development of our understanding of contemporary photography. For the German artist, photography is an object with the ability to move the viewer to project their feelings through it. Desecrates the object. Belongs to the sacred which includes the image. His photographs eloquently of the distance imposed by the market, retouched, grand, and great nineteenth-century paintings. Work with polaroid and small sizes.

100 years. Photo: Nacho Plaza

His work on photography and time are an exercise in exploring this as though relative, serves to anchor man in the world and make it understandable. From the works of the sixties as Time Series where analog reel recorded a nondescript event to 100 Years, a long line of 100 black and white portraits that start with an 8-month and end in a 100 years old. It's a great reflection on the passing of time and how it is lived in relation to the photographic image from the subject himself, and the transformation of his body and the construction of identity.

A photo is a piece of paper, an object: if we look We produce feelings or moods. The picture of a dead person can make us feel sorry, and if a child's, tenderness, but not the picture that produces it, is our mind. Also this happens with all sorts of photos, good, bad, collective or private.