Matts Leiderstam – SEEN FROM HERE

Inbunden bok. Verlag für Moderne Kunst / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. 2010. 182 sidor.

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The Swe­dish in­stal­la­ti­on ar­tist Matts Lei­der­stam (*1956 in Gö­te­borg) is in­te­rested in the por­trait and land­scape pain­ting of the 18th and 19th cen­tu­ries. Af­ter in­ten­si­ve art and cul­tu­ral his­to­ry re­se­arch, Lei­der­stam ta­kes pain­tings and gra­phic art out of their ori­gi­nal collec­tion and pre­sen­ta­ti­on con­texts to po­si­ti­on them anew wi­t­hin in­sti­tu­tio­nal ex­hi­bi­ti­ons.
• Wi­th the aid of sli­de pro­jec­tions, com­pu­ter ani­ma­ti­ons, op­ti­cal in­stru­ments (co­lour fil­ters, ma­gni­fy­ing glas­ses, bi­no­cu­lars, etc.) and his own re­pro­duc­tions of ori­gi­nals, the ar­tist ap­pro­pria­tes the ma­te­ri­al, of­fe­ring the view­er al­ter­na­ti­ve ways of look­ing at vi­su­al mo­tifs and com­po­si­ti­ons. At­ten­ti­on thus fo­cu­ses on in­ci­den­tal de­tails and subt­le codes that normal­ly are hard­ly per­cei­ved owing to ha­b­itu­al pat­terns of see­ing and in­ter­pre­ting. His sci­en­ti­fic ap­proach has ma­de Lei­der­stam one of the few vi­su­al ar­tists to gain a doc­to­ra­te wi­th his ar­tis­tic work.
• He usual­ly plans his ex­hi­bi­ti­ons, which fre­quent­ly ta­ke the form of ar­chi­ves or his­to­ri­cal collec­tions of pain­tings, for a spe­ci­fic lo­ca­ti­on. In the si­de­light hall and foy­er of the Kunst­hal­le Düs­sel­dorf, Matts Lei­der­stam pres­ents ol­der works from the pe­ri­od 1997 to 2008. In the con­text of his new in­stal­la­ti­on Ne­an­der­thal Land­scape he crea­tes an ar­chi­val si­tua­ti­on for the gal­le­ry hall in which vi­si­tors can fol­low the de­ve­lop­ment and re­sults of his re­se­arch on the Düs­sel­dorf School of the 19th cen­tu­ry. Through bi­no­cu­lars the vi­si­tor can ex­ami­ne the ti­niest de­tails of his­to­ri­cal land­scape pain­tings from the gal­le­ry, in­stal­led in un­con­ven­tio­nal ar­ran­ge­ments on the lar­ge wall of the ci­ne­ma.
• On ex­hi­bit are pain­tings from the collec­tions of the mu­se­um kunst pa­last, Düs­sel­dorf, the Stadt­mu­se­um Düs­sel­dorf, the Ne­an­der­thal Mu­se­um in Mett­mann and the Mal­mö Mu­se­um of Art that ha­ve di­rect or in­di­rect con­nec­tions wi­th the teachings of the land­scape ar­tist Jo­hann Wil­helm Schir­mer (1807-1863). As foun­der of the first land­scape class at the Düs­sel­dorf Aca­de­my of the Arts, Schir­mer took his stu­dents to the ne­ar­by Val­ley of the Ne­an­der in the Nie­der­ber­gi­sches Land to do open air stu­dies. The in­flu­ence of the Düs­sel­dorf School can in­te­res­tingly be fol­lo­wed back to Scan­di­na­via.
• For his so­lo ex­hi­bi­ti­on Matts Lei­dertsam - Se­en From He­re, the ar­tist fol­lo­wed the tra­ces of J.W. Schir­mer, re­se­ar­ching in the lo­cal collec­tions and ar­chi­ves. …

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