“Douglas Gordon, whom we all know very well by one of the remakes of postproduction art-works, the twenty-four hour long Psycho from 1993, calls the procurement of film and music fragments a temporal ready-made. The video works by Oliver Pietsch could be labeled the same. His discomforting and troubled world is founded methodologically upon a manipulation of a film-production representation. Pietsch takes the fragments from their original context, and explores the forms and stereotypes of cinematographic representation. In this way Pietsch is designing an archive of popular culture, utilizing the decontextualization of the used material to create a new product – a video work. By collecting stereotypical representations, Pietsch links them to a meticulous editing and a sophisticated musical background, giving them a particular emotional quality.” (Tatjana Orbović)
Bio
Oliver Pietsch (b.1972, Munich), lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include From Here to Eternity, MM Projects, Karlsruhe (2012), The Shape of Things, Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia (2011) From Here to Eternity, Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland (2011); From Here to Eternity, Nettie Horn, London (2010); Pietsch Week, Goff+Rosenthal, New York (2009), The Shape of Things, D.O.B. Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia (2009). Group exhibitions include The Art of Pop Video, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany (2011); Featuring Cinema, Coreana Museum of Art, space*c, Seoul, Korea (2011), No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. Scheitern, Kunst und Wissen, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany (2010).
