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Hermann Pitz 'Licht aus Bozen – Werkzeug aus Düsseldorf' Jul 15 - Sep 17, 2005
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Hermann Pitz
Image Generator, 2000
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Past Exhibitions
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We are pleased to invite you to our Hermann Pitz exhibition. Born 1956 in Oldenburg, Pitz was a
co-founder of “Büro-Berlin“, a production team that worked in Berlin in the 80s, using spaces outside of art insitutions (abandoned houses, underground stations etc.) as a forum for their art.
In our exhibition all of Hermann Pitz’s publications are shown together for the first time; starting with “bicicletta Berlin 1983“ up to his most recent publication “Tools from Düsseldorf / Light from Bozen“, the catalogue published in 2003 for Pitz’s exhibition at the Zeppilin Museum, a technical museum in Friedrichshafen. Pitz’s preference still lies in spaces foreign to art, such as a technical museum.
The existing objects in these places become the material for the installations, just as standard book forms become material in his artist books – Pitz inserts essays on art into comics, fills a Michelin tour guide with tool descriptions, and uses a tabed notebook for an idealic organization system of his own work (Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld). Thus a body of book work developed parallel to the installation works.
We are showing, amongst others, the piece “Zeppilin“, a photo series in which all of Pitz’s tools are displayed and documented: hammers, rubber fiinger caps, magnifying- glasses, pliers, saws, tripods... In the book, Pitz, motivated by the urgencey of his move from Düsseldorf to Münich, created an inventory of all these things, writing a description for each. The descriptive, objective texts quickly reveal a personal narrative, creating a “biography of tools“ in which a life story is told through the interaction with things.
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