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The sign and divinity have the same place and time of birth. Jacques Derrida
Munich Sentimental could signal a return to the place where everything began. The exhibition would then refute Marc LeBlanc’s observation that each group of works is presented by a new artist persona, and that once Mayer has tired of this, it is never seen again. Yet the same LeBlanc talks about taboo and death, the abject at large. Which means that, if there is any continuity, it is found in what Mayer paints.
But this continuity gets along very well without the artist – in this way, similar to the moon, which is both attracted and pulled outward and thereby kept at a stable distance. In this sense, Isabelle Graw speaks of the silence surrounding the women depicted in Hans-Jörg Mayer’s pictures. As if the pictures were facts and not advertising and news. As if they could only tempt us to reject pieces of the world. In 202…
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The sign and divinity have the same place and time of birth. Jacques Derrida
Munich Sentimental could signal a return to the place where everything began. The exhibition would then refute Marc LeBlanc’s observation that each group of works is presented by a new artist persona, and that once Mayer has tired of this, it is never seen again. Yet the same LeBlanc talks about taboo and death, the abject at large. Which means that, if there is any continuity, it is found in what Mayer paints.
But this continuity gets along very well without the artist – in this way, similar to the moon, which is both attracted and pulled outward and thereby kept at a stable distance. In this sense, Isabelle Graw speaks of the silence surrounding the women depicted in Hans-Jörg Mayer’s pictures. As if the pictures were facts and not advertising and news. As if they could only tempt us to reject pieces of the world. In 202…
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