Exhibition
Jochem Hendricks
6 Nov 2012 – 20 Dec 2012
Event times
Tues-Fri: 11am-5pm Sat: 11am-4pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- University of Southampton
- Highfield
- Southampton
- SO17 1BJ
- United Kingdom
About
German artist Jochem Hendricks (b. 1959) is known for his works that address complex moral and ethical issues. The objects he produces are often beautifully realised, yet beneath the surface lie elaborate backstories, which ' at times ' test the boundaries of legality.
Works on show at the John Hansard Gallery include a number of 'intercontinental paintings', realised through an international networkof collaborators; synthesised diamonds, transformed from the concentrated essence of birds; a Mazda MX5 sports car which has become a "part-time sculpture" through the artist's tax arrangements; a 25 mile-long human hair, glued from individual strands;photographs from a 1970s archive of police investigations, printed by the former wife of
terrorist Carlos the Jackal; and glass-blown vials containing hand-counted grains of sand.
This new exhibition spans Hendricks' practice over the past decade and ranges from sculpture, film and photography to installations and painting.
At John Hansard Gallery Central visitors can view the visceral film installation Front Windows, 2008-9, in which 200 windows of an old building in the centre of Frankfurt are smashed from within, at changing rhythms and speeds (presented as part of Southampton Film Week 2012).
