Pirelli HangarBicocca
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Shadow-Play
For Pirelli HangarBicocca, Hans-Peter Feldmann has gone back to one of his best-known and best-loved works, creating a new version of it. “Shadow Play” is a work at the crossroads between photography and cinema, environmental installation and theatre. It uses movement and light as a compositional element to give a poetic reflection on the countless ways in which images can be interpreted.
“Shadow Play” (2002-2012) by Hans-Peter FeldmannPirelli HangarBicocca
“Shadow Play” (2002-2012) by Hans-Peter FeldmannPirelli HangarBicocca
The work of Hans-Peter Feldmann (Düsseldorf, 1941) revolves around the accumulation of images from anonymous sources or from photos he has taken himself. By illustrating the ubiquity of reproductions in the world around us, Feldmann theorizes the concept of the “missing original” in his work. In other words, it is the multiplicity of reproductions that gives the original its value, rather than the other way round.
“Shadow Play” (2002-2012) by Hans-Peter FeldmannPirelli HangarBicocca
“Shadow Play” (2002-2012) by Hans-Peter FeldmannPirelli HangarBicocca
“Shadow Play” (2002-2012) by Hans-Peter FeldmannPirelli HangarBicocca
A
new generation of artists has rediscovered Hans-Peter Feldmann’s ability to
reflect on the accumulation of images, bringing into question the mechanisms of
the art market and the way value is attributed to a work. In 2010 he won the
Hugo Boss Art Prize at the Guggenheim Museum and used the prize money to
plaster the exhibition space of with a hundred thousand one-dollar bills.
