LARS BREUER, SEBASTIAN FREYTAG AND GUIDO MÜNCH

Lars Breuer, Sebastian Freytag and Guido Münch share an interest in various artistic ideologies and movements, such as early 20th-century avantgarde and its successors, the art trends of the Sixties, Minimalism and Conceptual Art. The motto of the group is taken from the Russian avantgarde artist Varvara Stepanova: “Study and know the old, but create the new.” KONSORTIUM artists are autonomous but the collaborative work and installations give them a chance to react to the form and content of another’s work. This approach produces various kinds of interesting contrasts and contradictions between their works. KONSORTIUM artists have one thing in common: they each copy their respective historical sources while at the same time contesting both their meaning and its significance for the group’s overall artistic practice. By moving between the original and the copy, between the pattern and its actualisation, between personal ´handwriting´ and digital print, KONSORTIUM investigates the place of art in the field of globalising culture.

Curators: Theresia Kiefer & Pia Hovi-Assad.
In cooperation with: Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie / Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

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ISBN 978-952-5648-17-1
MASTERCOPY,  LARS BREUER SEBASTIAN FREYTAG GUIDO MÜNCH

HERAUSGEBER/EDITORS: Reinhard Spieler/Esko Nummelin
KURATOREN/CURATORS: Theresia Kiefer / Pia Hovi-Assad
KATALOGENTWURF/DESIGN: Guido Münch / Sebastian Freytag
TEXTE/ESSAYS: Reinhard Spieler / Theresia Kiefer (Wilhelm-Hack-Museum)
ÜBERSETZUNG/TRANSLATION: Catherine Nichols
LEKTORAT/COPY EDITING: Kathleen Herfurth, Kerber Verlag, Leipzig (deutsch/German) / Christopher Cordy (englisch/Englisch)

ABBILDUNGEN/IMAGES:
Egbert Trogemann, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn S. / pp. 37, 38, 39; Yun Lee S. / p. 43;
Abbildungen Seite 76–77 / reference illustrations p. 76–77: 3: Fotografi e / photograph by: Wolfgang Burat, Köln;
4: Ausstellungskatalog / cat., Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, hrsg. von / ed. by Bettina-Martine Wolter, Frankfurt am Main 1992;
9: WHM Collection Catalogue p. 166; 10: Fotografi e / photograph by: S. Bax; restliche Fotografi en / other photographs by: Sebastian Freytag

GESAMTHERSTELLUNG/PRODUCTION:
Kerber Verlag, Germany

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© 2009 Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld; Autoren, Herausgeber und Künstler / Authors, Publisher and Artists
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