Wolfgang Oelze

Snoeck Verlag, Köln, 2019
224 pages, 18 x 24 cm, 205 plates, thread-stitching, softcover, German/English

Edited by Dirk Luckow and Wolfgang Oelze
ISBN 978-3-86442-287–4

This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Fuzzy Dark Spot at the Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, from April 13 to November 3, 2019. It includes a preface by Dirk Luckow and an introduction by curator Wolfgang Oelze. The book offers comprehensive essays by Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Thomas Macho, Claudia Reiche, Gerd Roscher and Siegfried Zielinski as well as explanations on the individual artworks.

The exhibition Fuzzy Dark Spot brings together video works by mostly Hamburg-based artists ranging from the 1970s to the present day, featuring historical and contemporary productions. The exhibition examines how video in art interprets social and media irritations and manipulations. The fields of this investigation include references in video art to television, the educational movement of the counter-public of the 1970s, as well as the use of video as a surveillance medium, a means of artistic narrative, a psychosocial mirror, and an instrument of self-optimization in the digital present. The major impact of video images on the collective memory and consciousness in the 20th and 21st centuries makes doubts about images, the uneasiness with the familiar, as well as the distrust of truth claims important subjects of artistic reflection. The title summarizes the common theme of the works in the exhibition: a nebulous, fuzzy dark spot, place, or condition.

https://www.sammlung-falckenberg.de/en/exhibitions/fuzzy-dark-spot-videokunst-aus-hamburg/

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