{"id":35422,"date":"2014-08-16T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T13:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=35422"},"modified":"2014-08-16T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T13:29:28","slug":"kader-attia-transformations-ellen-blumenstein-ed-spector-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=35422","title":{"rendered":"Kader Attia: Transformations. Ellen Blumenstein (Ed.). Spector Books."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kader Attia: Transformations<\/em>. Ellen Blumenstein (Ed.). Spector Books.\ufffc<\/p>\n

The manifold entanglements of African and Western culture are a central motif in the oeuvre of the Algerian-French artist Kader Attia. The influence of traditional African architecture on European modernism forms the background for his voluminous spatial installations, videos and photographs, as much as the re-appropriation of North and South American black music within African Jazz and Pop of the 1960s up to the 1980s. His work manifests the productivity of dissonance: Where African masks, stuffed animals, scientific instruments, and historical artifacts seemingly have nothing in common, the artist unearths connections between Europe\u2019s handling of its own colonial history, current migration politics, and the urbanistic realities of its metropolises of today. Based on Kader Attia\u2019s solo show \u201cRepair. 5 Acts\u201d at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, this publication focuses on works from the years 2008\u20132013 and places them in a broader art historical concept.<\/p>\n

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Die vielf\u00e4ltigen Verschr\u00e4nkungen afrikanischer und westlicher Kultur sind ein zentrales Motiv im Oeuvre des algerisch- franz\u00f6sischen K\u00fcnstlers Kader Attia: der Einfluss traditioneller afrikanischer Architektur auf die europ\u00e4ische Moderne bilden ebenso den Hintergrund f\u00fcr seine raumgreifenden Installationen, Videos und Fotografien, wie die Wiederaneignung nord-, bzw. s\u00fcdamerikanischer schwarzer Musik im afrikanischen Jazz und Pop der 1960er bis 80er Jahre. In seinem Werk zeigt sich die Produktivit\u00e4t der Dissonanz: wo afrikanische Masken, ausgestopfte Tiere, naturwissenschaftliche Instrumente, historische Artefakte scheinbar nichts miteinander zu tun haben, stellt der K\u00fcnstler Verbindungen zwischen dem europ\u00e4ischen Umgang mit der eigenen Kolonialgeschichte, der aktuellen Migrationspolitik und st\u00e4dtebauliche Realit\u00e4ten in den Metrololen von heute her. Ausgehend von Kader Attias Einzel- ausstellung \u201eReparatur. 5 Akte\u201c in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art fokussiert diese Publikation auf Werke aus den Jahren 2008 \u2013 2013 und stellt sie in einen breiteren kunsthistorischen Kontext.<\/p>\n

224 pp. German\/English
\nDesign \/ Gestaltung: Studio Quentin Walesch
\nHerausgeber: Ellen Blumenstein, KW Institute for Contemporary Art
\nLeipzig 2014
\nISBN: 978-3-944669-23-6<\/p>\n

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