Life and Lies
Tobias Kaspar
09.11.2012 - 22.12.2012, opening 09.11.2012
Approx (Portrait), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
69 x 52,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Blonde (Making of), 2012
DV on DVD
24 min 51
ed 3 + 2
Raf Simons, Spring Summer 2010, Friday June 26th, 2009 9.30pm at 9 rue Henri Barbusse, 75005 Paris, 2012
HD on DVD
9 min 37
ed 3 + 2
Approx (FS 180), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
52,5 x 69 cm
ed 3 + 2
Approx (50/50), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
52,5 x 69 cm
ed 3 + 2
Approx (Again), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
69 x 52,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Approx (3, 5, 7, 9, 19, 12), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
69 x 52,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Approx (Bail), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
69 x 52,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Approx (Late), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
69 x 52,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Approx (Egeurial BFM), 2012
silver gelatin print, framed
69 x 52,5 cm
ed 3 + 2
Blonde (fig 16), 2012
Wall vitrine with one bleached hair extension
52,5 x 69 cm
unique
photo: Aurélien Mole
Tobias Kaspar notices the signs of time passing and human life in the stiffness of models, in the collective ornaments, in the empty and forever duplicated gestures, in games and charade, in the medium of advertising, in fashion and in the way of life. Nothing surprising then when in 2011, the artist decided to create, with his accomplice Hannes Loichinger: The Provence City Guide: Nice, in which the traveller can benefit from the best advice to have a wonderful day, directly steered to the best hotels, bars and restaurants of the city. Recently, he launched a jeans edition, marketed at the Andreas Murkudis concept store in Berlin. What really counts in this work, as in what can be seen of the exhibition Life and Lies, is not the similarities found in a dissected fashion, but the slow apparition of a uniform. It is without doubt in the languor, the slow motion and the tranquil details that individual [...]
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