Wolfgang Temmel
Subtitle: nordkoreanische Landschaften = North Korean landscapes
By: Herausgeber: Wolfgang Temmel, Neue Galerie Graz ; Übersetzung: Catherine Kerkhoff-Saxon
Contributors: Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum
Publisher: Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Weitra]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9783990285114
Subjects: Exhibitions; Multimedia (Art)
Other titles: Nordkoreanische Landschaften; North Korean landscapes
Description: There is no way to experience the scenic beauty of North Korea by traveling around the country. Yet it is possible to overcome the inaccessibility of this situation by using technical means (satellite imagery). Google Earth allows us to travel in virtual space.0Wolfgang Temmel explores a way of experiencing nature through a medium when he paints "en plein screen" and produces with painterly sophistication conventional landscapes of North Korea. In that moment, he transfers the classical medium of painting to the context of media art. Then, in the anachronism of painting as a medium, the political dimension of the initial situation becomes clear.
Notes: On the occasion of an exhibition held at Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, June 19 - September 6, 2015.

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