Michael Riedel (artist)

Michael Riedel (also: Michael S. Riedel, born July 12, 1972 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German conceptual artist.

Life and work

Riedel studied from 1996 to 2000 at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris and the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main. He was a master student of Hermann Nitsch. The " p ", which was temporarily Riedel in his name, came from his time at the Städel School. He used the name " Michael S. Riedel " - then continuously in lower case - for the first time as an inscription on a paper bag, which he at the end of a lecture he had given at the Städel School, was pulling in 1997 over his head. The letter " p " was fictitious. He ten years later sold it to a friend. She carries it with her in her name.

Then he initiated together with Dennis Loesch in a vacant apartment building that is now labeled legendary art project " Oskar -von-Miller Road 16", an experimental art space in the same street in Frankfurt. There, his first art events took place that dealt with the aspect of repetition and the resulting transformation of the starting material.

Riedel worked here with talks, exhibitions, films and performances of fellow artists. The title of the designed with Loesch actions have the artistic duplication for: Gert & Georg ( Gilbert & George ), the Clubbed Clubs and Filmed Films ( film recordings of performances of experimental films that Riedel had taken of its respective seat in the cinema from ). Even the posters and invitations were reused for this purpose, however, supplemented by the reference to the new venue. The concept was the New York Factory of Andy Warhol inspired - it was "a kind of gigantic copying machine".

In 2004, the Frankfurt nightclub Robert Johnson was imitated in an exhibition at the Frankfurt gallery Michael Neff. The whole apparatus was hanging but from bottom to top conversely recreated on the ceiling, and the dance music was played during its reverse.

All events were recorded and documented photographically detailed.

In 2004, Riedel also in the Oskar -von- Miller-Straße with the Freitagsküche a culinary and social meeting place, a restaurant, where artists were cooking for the visitors and had only open one evening a week. After the demolition of the art space Riedel and Loesch temporarily transferring their artistic activities and the Freitagsküche to Berlin -Mitte, in the street Weydinger 20 Riedel 2010 returned back to Frankfurt, where the Freitagsküche still exists today.

2009 Riedel responded with a parallel project to the exhibition The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden, which took place in Frankfurt's Städel 2009. " At the center of his interest here are less the works of art themselves, but rather the further processing of the photographic material of the exhibits. Specifically, the mediation Media - poster, flyers, postcards, catalog of the exhibition - is used by Riedel to create four variations of each print products. "

A center of Riedel's work is the design of books, catalogs, brochures, posters and invitations. These works accompany since the 1990s, its installations and actions, and they document his work.

Among the more recent works since 2010 include the " posters and PowerPoint Paintings", in which he Screenshots of transitions used, among other things, generates the presentation program Microsoft PowerPoint.

Riedel makes "a kind of appropriation art ," by falling back on existing things, appropriates, repeated it and it created a second image of them. As far as Riedel in his works with text, it serves as a " graphic element ". For example, the representation of the source code of websites are " no blind texts " but " material that has a documentary value ", with the Riedel, as he himself says, " picturesque works ".

Exhibitions

  • 2003: Context, Form, Troy, Wiener Secession
  • 2007: vicini Michael S. Riedel John Bo, art room Innsbruck
  • 2007: The History of a Decade did has not yet published been named, Biennale de Lyon
  • 2010: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 2011: So we do it. Techniques and aesthetics of appropriation, Kunsthaus Bregenz

Prices

  • 2006: 1822 Art Prize, Frankfurt am Main

Printed works

  • Oskar: a novel ( a remake of Andy Warhol, A: A Novel ).
  • Roberto Ohrt. , 2004.
  • Tirala. , 2006.
  • Meckert. , 2009.
  • Perlstein. , 2011.
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