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Works in the Exhibition | Interview
Works in the Exhibition
Die schwarze Stunde, 2004, mixed media: mdf, plastics, aluminium, photographic reproductions, electric clockwork
Interview
Rainald Schumacher: What was the context in which you created the installation Leave all the Rest Behind, 1999?
Lothar Hempel: The installation Leave all the Rest Behind marks a point of transition in my work. As I usually did at that time, I approached an exhibition with just a few sculptural ideas. One of the ideas I had was for a house-like cuboid ruin in which and around which a threatened but defensive female figure and a threatening but passive male figure - monster - are grouped. It has something of the basic structure of a poetic horror film. An archaic image, as in recurring dreams. This subsequently led to Leave all the Rest Behind. Then there was the title for the exhibition amerika verschwindet. nur das lächeln bleibt and a vague narrative context, a kind of cinematic feel for the exhibition as a whole, which structured the relationship between the individual works and helped me to build up a kind of selective awareness. So in the preparatory phase, I just drifted around town hoping that the right images would come my way.
Text excerpt »Narrative Machines« - An Conversation via E-Mail with Lothar Hempel, August 2005 (Author: Rainald Schumacher), Exhibition Catalogue Imagination Becomes Reality Part
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