Douglas Gordon | Exhibition | MMK Frankfurt

Posted on 12/12/2011 by W&V

The oeuvre of Scottish conceptual artist Douglas Gordon comprises of films, large video installations, photographs, texts, sculptures and sound installations.
With his analyses of images drawn from the collective memory and everyday culture, Gordon exposes basic patterns of perception. Within this framework, his works often revolve around phenomena of duplication and reflection. Meanings of mirroring and fragmentation are also evoked on a formal level, for example in large scale film and video installations which are presented on two or more screens.

At this moment the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (MMK) is showing a major solo exhibition of the artist titled “Douglas Gordon”. The exhibition shows new pieces and prominent works of the past years and provides a concentrated and impressive overview of this multifaceted artist’s oeuvre. It will run untill the 25th March 2012.

In the below videos the artist and staff of the Museum explain more about the works.

Photos Douglas Gordon and MMK Frankfurt | Video top: Institut für Kunstdokumentation | Video bottom: MMK Frankfurt | MMK website

Zoom | Collection Autumn | Winter 11|12

Posted on 07/12/2011 by W&V

Style | Top: T 1112-84-21 | Pant: P 1112-49-44 | squared pant |

You can view the Autumn | Winter 2011 | 2012 collection video trailer in HD quality on the Warmenhoven & Venderbos website. It is also available on the Warmenhoven & Venderbos Youtube and Vimeo channels.

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Collection Autumn|Winter 2011|2012

Diary 051211

Posted on 05/12/2011 by W&V

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary photo (snapshots) entry 051211

Immanuel Kant on thoughts, intuitions and concepts

Posted on 02/12/2011 by W&V

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant, researched, lectured and wrote on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment. At the time, there were major successes and advances in the sciences (for example: Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Robert Boyle) using reason and logic. But this stood in sharp contrast to the scepticism and lack of agreement or progress in empiricist philosophy.

Kant’s magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781), aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. He hoped to end an age of speculation where objects outside experience were used to support what he saw as futile theories, while opposing the scepticism of thinkers such as Descartes, Berkeley and Hume.