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Performance - Mind's Mirror| Body/Sculpture
Mind's Mirror Hans Breder Ethan Cohen Gallery 2014 Curated by Ethan Cohen Performers: Elisa Osborne Mercedes Searer Video Excerpts |
“Mind’s Mirror | Hans Breder 1964-2014” opened in 2014 at Ethan Cohen New York with performances by the renowned German-American conceptual artist and dance artists Mercedes Searer and Elisa Osborne, conducting a live “Body/Sculpture” performance in New York for the first time since 1970.
Intermedia pioneer Hans Breder (b. 1935) explored intersections between painting, sculpture, photography, music, and video. This exhibition highlighted the full scope of his oeuvre: five new paintings from the Opsis series documenting Breder’s personal investigations in the neuro-ophthalmology of image perception, the recent film installation Who is Afraid of Yellow, Red and Blue? (2014), as well as original silver gelatin prints from the 1969-73 documentary photographs of his “Body/Sculpture” performance series. His works, such as Body/Sculpture (1969–1973), permit the quick observation of the art establishment's limitations before transgressing them. Breder’s deconstruction of bodies halved by mirrors or of cut-up drawings by modern masters decisively severs the line between art objects and their environments, locating them in a process that changes with time and proving the temporality of art itself. |
