Karin SanderVisitors on Display
Museum Exhibition
Lehmbruck Museum
Duisburg
Germany
22 Mar – 23 Jun 2013
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“Being scanned,” writes the conceptual artist and theorist Harry Walter, “is something quite different from being photographed. The feeling of being captured from all sides at once certainly led, in my case, to a heightened sense of unease regarding the parts of my body that are usually hidden. For the first time, I had to imagine what I might look like from behind and from above. Or even between my legs. Although fully clothed, I then felt deeply caressed for 10 intense seconds whilst the laser cameras scanned down my body. If there is such a thing as an aura, I thought to myself, then it must be detectable by this device and no other.” Born in Bensberg in 1957, the artist Karin Sander has been working with both a 3D body scanner and 3D printers since 1996; her focus, as unassuming as it is individual, lies on the reproduction of people—the museum visitors. At the LehmbruckMuseum in Duisburg and the K20 Art Collection in Düsseldorf, she scanned visitors using a 3D body scanner and then printed them out layer by layer as faithful miniature figures. Each visitor could decide for themselves what pose and gestures to adopt, aware that in that moment they were becoming a work of art rather than a viewer, an object rather than a subject. Now, the LehmbruckMuseum is exhibiting the resulting replicas together for the first time: 981 people and three dogs. A fascinating miniature landscape of the art world. (This text has been machine translated)
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- Stefan Alber
- © Studio Karin Sander, VG Bild-Kunst, 2013
- Courtesy: Lehmbruck Museum
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