Christoph Draeger “The End of the Remake”
Roebling Hall
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Roebling Hall announces “The End of the Remake”, Christoph Draeger’s 4th solo exhibition at the gallery. Draeger’s long-term fascination with society’s concern for disaster is again central to his current exhibition. “The End of the Remake” specifically explores this deep fascination by looking to iconic artistic giants Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Hitchcock and Michelangelo Antonioni and reinterpreting them, underscoring the impending doom inherent in their works that he identifies with. Draeger utilizes this aspect of their works and remakes or remixes them to attach them more closely to his notion of how pop culture, modernism, science, politics and technical advancement lead to alienation, societal dread and disengagement.
In a reconstruction of Duchamp’s “Large Glass” and a deconstructed puzzle work depicting the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, he implies that the advancements of modernism and technology paradoxically work simultaneously as coping mechanisms and twin propellers of breakage in society. Abstracted analysis in art and science have built a complex societal edifice too arcane and potentially too dreadful to contemplate directly, resulting in escapism from helplessness through disengagement, lurid entertainment, games, and the further deconstruction of philosophy.
In the smaller gallery, Draeger builds a psychedelic hippie dungeon containing the three videos of his new trilogy “The End of the Remake Part 1-3” (2006-2008). In “Hippie Movie”, the Summer of Love is re-enacted by a hippie movement he created one year ago in Warsaw, 40 years too late: a utopic re-creation of total escape now lost to us.
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Schedule
from October 10, 2008 to November 15, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-10-09 from 18:00 to 20:00