欧司朗艺术系列展出七件录像艺术作品
德国慕尼黑：近日，继与巴伐利亚歌剧院及慕尼黑现代绘画馆合作，在慕尼黑歌剧节上推出美国艺术家戴安娜•塔特尔的歌剧后，欧司朗艺术系列又将展出来自慕尼黑艺术家Haubitz和Zoche的七件录像艺术作品。
1927年，著名导演弗里兹•郎的电影《大都市》杀青，直接将焦点对准了未来可能发生的种种恶梦般的现实，而电影里的场面，正在我们的生活中不可避免的上演着。与此相呼应，这次的展览明名为“2027”，由此我们很容易联想到这些艺术作品所要反映的主题。在Haubitz和Zoche的作品中，回避了对显示环境问题、现代功利主义等问题的思考，而是通过创造出至真至纯的美，让我们深深地沉醉其中，从而引发进一步的思考。哪些是被我们所遗弃了的？
Haubitz, 全名Sabine Haubitz，生于1959年，先后在柏林艺术大学和慕尼黑艺术学院学习，1988年，并于1988年获得柯达新锐奖，1996年，获慕尼黑项目奖学金。
Zoche，全名Stefanie Zoche, 生于1965年，曾在伦敦米德塞尔斯理工大学深造。1995至1997年，她获得巴伐利亚文化部奖学金。
1998年，两位艺术家开始长期合作。
MUNICH, GERMANY.- Osram Art Projects presents Seven Screens, on view through October 24, 2007. After the intermezzo of the US artist Diana Thater at the Munich Opera Festival - in collaboration with the Bavarian National Theater and the Pinakothek der Moderne - we are looking forward to continue the project of the Munich art duo Haubitz+Zoche from 1 August on.
The title of the video installation by Haubitz+Zoche is “2027”. This relates to the year in which Fritz Lang’s film “Metropolis” was set. Metropolis was released precisely 100 years ago in 1927, a thought-provoking period of time considering the various nightmare visions of the future that we all face today.
A reference to Lang’s urban dystopia that finds resonance today are the slow floating dream-like images of various model houses. Here there is a link between revolutionary architecture, modern functionalism and post-modern use of quotations; but only for it all to resolve in diffused blue water, without time or place. The same unreal topsy-turvy space is shared by the swimmers who seem to be looking for a firm hold in this weightless world and for control amidst the uncontrolled.
In all their allusions Haubitz+Zoche avoid direct references to current ecological, social or cultural issues. Concepts that appear time and again however include resolution, destabilization and misalignment - in form and content. Their work transcends all these references. At least as important are the specific location and its particular conditions. The intrinsic aesthetic value is also important – images of suggestive beauty that create such a hypnotic attraction that it is easy to forget which horizon is real and which levels still have to be conquered.
Haubitz+Zoche (Sabine Haubitz, born in 1959 and Stefanie Zoche, born in 1965) have been working together since 1998. Sabine Haubitz studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1988 she received the Kodak New Talent Award and in 1996 the Project Scholarship from the city of Munich. Stefanie Zoche studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in London. From 1995 to 1997 she had a scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture. For their Sinai Hotels collection of photographs Haubitz+Zoche received the 2006/07 German Photographic Book Prize.