Reiner Riedler "Fake Holidays"

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery

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Reiner Riedler’s series Fake Holidays, takes us to the heart of a society of standardized leisure where foreign places are fabricated into local spaces in which we can stage our own life histories. Replicas of the greatest touristic landscapes in the world discard space, time and reality, arousing a sense of adventure and a taste for the exotic without the journey or the risk. As Jens Lindworsky mentions in the introduction of Reiner Riedler’s book, Fake Holidays, “Florida’s Disneyworld hosts more visitors than Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Israel combined. New and more refined illusionary worlds are added every year, and the simulation business is booming.”

Whether in China, Germany or in the United States, Riedler shows a dramatization of these spaces, towns and lives. A honeymoon in Paris is now possible when staying in China; experiencing the unique charm of an island vacation is even more perfect just few kilometers from Berlin. These lives dreamt in prefabricated spaces enhance the illusion that everything is possible and we can evade ourselves without even leaving.

Riedler’s work was recently selected to be part of the exhibition, Dreamlands – From Amusement Parks to Cities of Tomorrow at Centre Pompidou in Paris in summer 2010. Quentin Bajac, the curator writes: “Reliant on generalized imitation and illusion, displaying an aesthetics of accumulation and collage, and testifying to a desire to abolish the constraints of space and time, such Dreamlands have helped form the artistic, architectural and urbanistic imagination of the 20th and 21st centuries. From the utopian projects of the 1960s and ‘70s to the realities of contemporary urban design, they have changed our most basic relationships to the world and time, to geography and history; they have altered our understanding of the original and the reproduction and have blurred the boundaries between art and its old rivals of kitsch and entertainment.”

The imaginary spreads out according to a visual uniformity of the world. Provocative and spontaneous, Reiner Riedler is a photographer with a sassy sense of humor.

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from October 07, 2010 to November 20, 2010

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Reiner Riedler

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