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Martha Rosler - 2010
The text of the third Hermans lecture by Martha Rosler can be found here
as a PDF document. Those who attended the lecture have received a nicely
designed printed edition.
The printed edition can be ordered through the secretarial offices of the Hermes lecture Foundation (contact@hermeslezing.nl).
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Liam Gillick - 2008
The text of the second Hermans lecture by Liam Gillick can be found here
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designed printed edition.
The printed edition can be ordered through the secretarial offices of the Hermes lecture Foundation (contact@hermeslezing.nl).
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An audioregistration of the lecture can be found via this link.
In 2007 Liam Gillick published a collection of truly remarkable and sharply written essays and texts. Gillick is a contemporary artist who constantly refers critically, in both images and texts, to the avant-garde of the sixties and seventies (Minimal Art, Conceptual Art) in an attempt to translate both the failures and triumphs of those art forms to the radically changed context of art today, which is characterised by institutionalisation, commercialism and globalisation. His work contains many hidden layers but is certainly not for “connoisseurs” only; his open structures always leave room for the observer. Gillick's work is often regarded as an example of a “relational” art practice.
Gillick has been nominated for the Vincent Award 2008 and in January 2008 he did a project in the Witte de With Art Centre in Rotterdam. In the spring of 2009 a retrospective exhibition is planned in Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Jeff Wall - 2006
The text of the first Hermans lecture by Jeff Wall can be found here as
a PDF document. Those who attended the lecture have received a nicely
designed printed edition.
The printed edition can be ordered through the secretarial offices of the Hermes lecture Foundation (contact@hermeslezing.nl).
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Since the mid‑1970s the Canadian artist Jeff Wall (1946, Vancouver, BC) has gained an international reputation with his transparent colour photographs mounted in light boxes. In his work he seeks a connection, in his own contrary way, with the main pictorial traditions of Western painting, film, and documentary photography, in full awareness of the heritage of conceptual art and other critical schools of the 1960s. Wall's oeuvre includes staged dramatic scenes of a sometimes explicit baroque nature, as well as more restrained, observing images in which social and psychological tensions are seemingly repressed by everyday arrangements. His work may be regarded as a meditation on the Western “tableau” and the position of this type of image between modernity and history. Besides being a well‑known visual artists, Jeff Wall is also noted as the author of remarkable critical essays on art, such as Dan Graham's Kammerspiel (1984), Unity and Fragmentation in Manet (1984), 'Marks of Indifference': Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art (1995), and Monochrome and Photojournalism in On Kawara's Today Paintings (1996). In these essays he creates an intellectual short‑circuit between various media, genres, disciplines and ideologies in a manner that gives a stimulating impulse to thinking about art and its cultural surroundings.
For an online presentation of Jeff Wall's work, click here