'Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces' – Expanded Cinematographic Installation | By Gusztáv Hámos And Katja Pratschke at KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 26th April to 10 May 2014

Time : 
26th April : 6:00 pm - Opening
27th April to 10th may : 11:00 am - 6:30 pm - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Place : KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi - 110017
Area : Saket

Event Description : 'Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces' – Expanded Cinematographic Installation | By Gusztáv Hámos And Katja Pratschke.

The exhibition SAMPLE CITIES / IMAGINARY SPACES deals with personal urban perceptions, which we call "the city". The city, as a living organism, reflects social processes and interactions, economic relations, political conditions and private matters. In the city, human memories, desires and tragedies find expression in the form of designations and marks engraved in house walls and paving slabs. The SAMPLE CITIES / IMAGINARY SPACES project researches what is contained or concealed in the city under this layer of signs. 

The source material for the installation consists of photo works by Gusztáv Hámos, produced between 1973 and 2012, each of which sequences depicts essential situations of urban experiences containing concentrations of human and inhuman acts in a compact form. The cities in this exhibition include Berlin, Budapest and New York. Places with a traumatised past: (cold) war, dictatorships and terrorist catastrophes. 

For the exhibition, 9 photo sequences have been assembled into tableaux or series of images and a three dimensional photo object. Every individual photo work already contains within it an idea, an arrangement, a programme, a concept - as scores and notations. SAMPLE CITIES/ IMAGINARY SPACES is inspired by Italo Calvino's book "La città invisibili", ("Invisible Cities"). Each video outlines an imaginary city that summarises an historic, social, economic, political or private aspect in a poetic narrative.

Video Credits: 
Narrator : Ulrich Matthes | Music: Chopin | Drums: Thomas Wydler | Vocals: Karolina Ferencz 

Gusztáv Hámos, born 1955 in Budapest, lives in Berlin, is a media artist, curator and author. His oeuvre includes video, film, photography and installation and has been exhibited at Documenta, Biennale Venedig, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ludwig Muzeum Budapest. His videos and films have been shown at Tate Modern London, SFMOMA, Videobrasil Sao Paulo, Palais de Tokyo Paris, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Ludwig Museum Budapest andArt Basel Miami. His work is in the Collections of MOMA NY, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, NBK Berlin and ZKM Karlsruhe. 


Katja Pratschke, born 1967 in Frankfurt am Main, is a media artist, curator and since 2006 has organised photofilm seasons with Gusztáv Hámos with whom she has collaborated since 1998. Her artistic projects include: Natural Born Digital (video, 1998); Transposed Bodies (video, installation, book, 2002); Rien ne va plus (film, 2005); Fiasco (film, 2010); Hidden Cities (film, installation, 2012) and Potential Space (film, installation, 2014). Her films have been shown at Tate Modern London, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Triennale der Photographie Hamburg and the 63th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia. She has received various awards and grants: German Short Film Award, travel grant of the Hessische Kulturstiftung, Artist-in-Residence Venice and Istanbul. 

For further information please visit: www.potentialspace.de

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'Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces' – Expanded Cinematographic Installation | By Gusztáv Hámos And Katja Pratschke at KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 26th April to 10 May 2014 'Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces' – Expanded Cinematographic Installation | By Gusztáv Hámos And Katja Pratschke at KHOJ International Artists' Association, S-17, Khirkee Extension > 26th April to 10 May 2014 Reviewed by Delhi Events on Saturday, May 10, 2014 Rating: 5

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