The Real World
Andreas Neumeister, Sean Snyder, Wolfgang Tillmans
March 30 - May 18, 2008
Andreas Neumeister, (1959, Starnberg) is a Munich based writer, recently
published 'Könnte Köln Sein' Suhrkamp 2008. Neumeister regularly incorporates
the idea of the visual in his literary work. His slide-archive 'Three Letter
Words/Da Real World' 1996 ongoing, navigates through the ubiquitous horizon
of acronyms saturating our life-worlds.
Sean Snyder (1972, Virginia Beach) Visual media, of which television is the
most established, common and vivid, inundates us with a steady flow of
images, which overlap with or even displace reality. Using this premise as a
starting point, Sean Snyder, analyzes with 'Schema (Television)', 2007 ways
in which we consume within the torrent of image production. Schema
(Television) has been produced using a satellite television and consumer
editing software. Its material composed and commented on by inter-titles, is
broadly thematic: from minimal static signals to news footage, weather
reports, game shows and culinary programs. The editing technique references
both the remote control ease of switching channels and the montage model of
Dziga Vertov’s newsreels/
Wolfgang Tillmans (1968 in Remscheid, Germany) developed iconic images that
eschewed the gloss of his contemporaries in the fashion industry, subverting
notions of beauty and sexuality. Shay IV, 2002 was taken in Tel Aviv and
presents an encounter between an Israeli Soldier and the artist.
Ludlow 38 will host an opening reception on Saturday, March 29, from 7:00–
9:00pm. Later in the evening, there will be an after-party with djs Princess
Julia and Lovely Jonjo, London, at another location (TBA at the opening).
