Wolfgang Staehle

Wolfgang Staehle (* 1950 in Stuttgart ) is a German artist. He lives and works in New York.

He studied at the Free Art School in Stuttgart and at the School of Visual Arts in New York in the United States. Since the late 1980s, he worked with video sculptures. In the early 1990s he founded in New York, the internet platform The Thing, since he mainly makes network-related work.

The images of 11 September 2001

Became famous Wolfgang Staehle mainly because of its recordings of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. For the period from September 6 to October 6 he was planning an installation in the New Yorker " Postmasters Gallery ". He installed three webcams, one in a monastery near Stuttgart, on the Alexanderplatz in Berlin and in New York. The images produced by the webcams in the five- second intervals should be projected in real time on screens in the " Postmasters Gallery ". Almost in the center of the image of the New York camera was the World Trade Center. Operators and visitors to the Gallery experienced as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 live with.

The images of the stop by Wolfgang Staehle not the mass media available and took it in his archive. They were first shown during the exhibition organized by Paul Virilio " Ce qui arrive " in the Paris Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. The show focused on unpredictable accidents and disasters that make the high-tech world of horror.

In 2005, the Hartware media art club in the Phoenix Hall was the quiet, almost still images that emerged a week after the attacks. On the nearness to refer only the absence of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the displayed time and date.

Exhibitions

  • Kassel, Documenta 10, June 21 - September 28, 1997
  • Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, August 11 - September 30, 1990
  • Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, October 7 - December 16, 1990
  • New York, Postmasters Gallery, September 6 - October 6, 2001
  • Paris, Ce qui arrive, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, November 29, 2002 - March 30, 2003
  • Karlsruhe, temporal values ​​- from Minimal to video, ZKM, December 20, 2003 - April 18, 2004
  • Dortmund, the Disappearance. World losses and world escapes, Phoenix Hall, August 27 - October 30, 2005
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