Exhibition

Edgar Schmitz - Surplus Cameo Decor

18 Oct 2012 – 14 Dec 2012

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Thursday
10:00 – 17:00
Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Monday
10:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00

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Cooper Gallery

Dundee, United Kingdom

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Surplus Cameo Decor is Edgar Schmitz' first solo exhibition in Scotland. Expanding on recent works that explore how best to withdraw from the present, Schmitz will install a series of ambient backdrops in Cooper Gallery that turn the space into a semi-fictional hub for cinematic plots and invited cameo appearances. The exhibition is organised in three episodes: episode 1, palasthotel, is named after an East Berlin hotel in the German Democratic Republic of foreign travel under StaSi surveillance, from which it borrows a bronze tinted window finish. episode 2, horizontes soroa, is set in the swimming pool of a remote Cuban resort, under refurbishment in the early 2000s. episode 3, sindanao, takes its title from the fictional South China Sea island in a 1986 Ulli Lommel horror movie, and is set in 2017 just before the opening of the M+ super-museum in Hongkong's West Kowloon Cultural District. Each of the episodes plays out between the exhibition as readymade set-up and the mirage of projected elsewheres. They are punctuated with cameos by international protagonists who appear against the backdrop of the exhibition as sprawling set, including Tobias Berger (M+, Hong Kong), Lisa Le Feuvre (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds), Ulli Lommel (Los Angeles/ Berlin), and Wang Nanming (Shanghai). Schmitz' work mobilises gallery settings toward film by orchestrating the way they oscillate between material, atmospheric and narrative promises. Across a diverse body of work including sculpture, sound, animation and writing, his sub-filmic clusters act as portals into and escape hatches from the exhibition as event. episode 1: palasthotel, 18 October - 6 November Preview: Thursday 18 October 2012, 6 - 8pm episode 2: horizontes soroa, 8 November - 27 November Preview: Thursday 8 November, 6 - 8pm episode 3: sindanao, 29 November - 14 December Preview: Thursday 29 November 2012, 6 - 8pm

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