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Nach lautloser Explosion
Yesterday evening, Gerhard Mantz new solo exhibition Nach lautloser Explosion (After a soundless explosion) opened at DAMBerlin. This is my text for the catalogue.
Landscapes
Writing about the work of Gerhard Mantz is not an easy task. When I’m confronted with it, two different elements of our current visual landscape come to my mind: Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings and my iMac’s “nature” desktops and screensavers. Even if I used, for a long time, Friedrich’s Landschaft mit Regenbogen (1810) as a desktop’s background – for the first time ever in my experience with computers, the iMac’s screen seems to be the right frame for a painting – I know that these two things are pretty different: before entering our media-driven, post-industrial, post-modern, capitalistic culture that turns everything into a gadget – and thus, a Nineteenth century painting into a desktop wallpaper – Friedrich’s works were sublime visions conceived to make us think about the supernatural, and the divine that pervades everything around us.
Out Now: Reality is Overrated
Domenico Quaranta, “Reality is Overrated. When Media Go Beyond Simulation”, in Artpulse Magazine, Issue 3, March – May 2010.
