GREGOR SCHMOLL
Bamboozle - Two Sequels from the Interim

Opening reception: Friday, 2 February 2007, 7 pm
Duration: 3 February through 10 March 2007

The exhibition "Bamboozle – Two Sequels of the Interim" is a current stock-taking of an ongoing series of two conceptual works. In them, Gregor Schmoll continues what he started years ago: the construction of a reality that can be fully located neither in the virtual world nor in art. Schmoll’s works are artefacts that cannot exist on their own and yet start a life independent of their models in other media. Sometimes only the titles of his polaroids (Canaletto, Manet) hint that their models are classic wall paintings, and in their realisation of abstract models (Buren) also hint at an ironic attitude. A solemn seriousness is suggested by presenting the polaroids in gilded frames. Their presentation and their title „Aus der Privatsammlung” ("From the private collection") stress the influence of an inescapable, ever-present canon of images. The result is a balance between a demystification of classic models and the naturally personal interpretation of the artists’ view.
A further component of the exhibition is a bar with the improvised exotic elegance of the 1950s. During the opening, the Brasil Bar will have a performative character; its afterlife is ensured by the photographic documentation of the installation, which up to this day has been displayed at various sites (PS1, New York; Shedhalle, Zurich). It is less the presentation of the action at the bar, but rather the context and the process of repetition which places the installation in a conceptual framework that is narratively extended by drawings and letters.