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| PHILIP HAUSMEIER |
"The Black Series is a body of work that has moved almost beyond perception into more
haptic visceral areas of non-visual bodily experience. The dense forest of hand cut
strips of black plastic suspended ceiling to floor is deceptively simple in form and
execution but presents complex phenomenological and philosophical issues concerning
our experience of an art work in the tangible world. From the outside we see the material
properties within the room. Once we penetrate inside its sliced outer skin our experience
of it radically changes. We have moved into a space without light, a non-visible space in
which our sensory perceptions are reduced to those within our own body. We can easily
move out through the slatted volume which yields no physical resistance even though
we experience it as a compact mass of dark matter within the light of the room."
-- (c) Tim Head 2006
Lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions
2007
Display, Museum 52, New York
Walking Through Walls, Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
Don't Leave, St. Ethelburgas, London
Consequence, Museum 52, London
2006
Assemblage III, Museum 52, London
Concrete Allotment, Temporarycontemporary, London
2005
Twenty to One (Site specific installation)Canary Wharf
Red Line, Whitfield Space, London
MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2003 Poetry and Space, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001 'Verwirrungen' Wolfheze, Netherlands
2000 NEU Exhbition, Düsseldorf, Germany
Education
2006 Boise Travel Scholarship, Spain and Japan
2003–2005 Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA
1999–2003 University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007-2008 Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Dusseldorf, Germany
Collections
MONA Tasmania, Australia
UCL Art Collection, London
David Roberts Collection, London
haptic visceral areas of non-visual bodily experience. The dense forest of hand cut
strips of black plastic suspended ceiling to floor is deceptively simple in form and
execution but presents complex phenomenological and philosophical issues concerning
our experience of an art work in the tangible world. From the outside we see the material
properties within the room. Once we penetrate inside its sliced outer skin our experience
of it radically changes. We have moved into a space without light, a non-visible space in
which our sensory perceptions are reduced to those within our own body. We can easily
move out through the slatted volume which yields no physical resistance even though
we experience it as a compact mass of dark matter within the light of the room."
-- (c) Tim Head 2006
Lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions
2007
Display, Museum 52, New York
Walking Through Walls, Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
Don't Leave, St. Ethelburgas, London
Consequence, Museum 52, London
2006
Assemblage III, Museum 52, London
Concrete Allotment, Temporarycontemporary, London
2005
Twenty to One (Site specific installation)Canary Wharf
Red Line, Whitfield Space, London
MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2003 Poetry and Space, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001 'Verwirrungen' Wolfheze, Netherlands
2000 NEU Exhbition, Düsseldorf, Germany
Education
2006 Boise Travel Scholarship, Spain and Japan
2003–2005 Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA
1999–2003 University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007-2008 Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Dusseldorf, Germany
Collections
MONA Tasmania, Australia
UCL Art Collection, London
David Roberts Collection, London
| courtesy Museum 52 |