Author name: Philipp Lachenmann

DELPHI Essential 1

2017PhotographInkjet print60.5 x 43.5 cm Photograph of a finger almost touching the silver canvas of a Mirror Painting EXHIBITION VIEWS Evolution, Andreas Binder Gallery Munich, 2022 DELPHI Essentials, ACE Gallery Los Angeles, 2017 DELPHI Essentials, Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, 2017 DELPHI Essential 1 (Index)

Mirror Sandbox

Mirror Sandbox (after “Planet of the Apes”, 1968) 2016Installation. Mixed media, wooden sandbox, silver leaf, sand, 3D printed sculptures, 3D printed sand moulds The classic kids’ sandbox as an early human “scope of formation” turns into an echo chamber of seminal artworks. Sand moulds:– Marcel Duchamp Fountain– Constantin Brancusi Endless Column– René Margritte C‘est ci …

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SPLASH/BIGBANG

(After Moholy-Nagy’s “Telephone Pictures – EM1, EM2, EM3”, 1923) 1984/2015Photograph The motif of SPLASH/BIGBANG shows a small, rusty metal plate with color varnish tests in four sizes, made by the artist in 1984. EXHIBITION VIEWS DELPHI Essentials, Andreas Binder Gallery Munich, 2017 DELPHI Essentials, ACE Gallery Los Angeles, 2017

Nuit Américaine

2012Light sculptureBlack light neon30 x 220 x 10 cm Nuit Américaine, executed in the handwriting of the artist, is the cinematic term for filming sequences outdoors in daylight using tungsten (indoor) film stock which, underexposed, creates a nighttime look. EXHIBITION VIEWS DELPHI Essentials, Andreas Binder Gallery Munich, 2017 DELPHI Essentials, ACE Gallery Los Angeles, 2017 …

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Grey Study & Black Study

Black & Grey Study (Surfer) 2003Photography series The series Black & Grey Study (Surfer) consists of pictures of surfers waiting for waves in the mist of the Californian coastline. The concept combines collective imagery of ‘Old Europe’ and ‘New World America’, inweaving the German Romantic tradition with West Coast culture. EXHIBITION VIEWS DELPHI Essentials, ACE …

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Space Surrogate II

Space_Surrogate II (GSG 9)2003 Video installationDigibeta transferred to PAL video, no sound8:30 min, looped A five-second film sequence from 1977—showing nine members of the German anti-terror squad GSG 9 passing from left to right—is transformed into an extremely slow, eight-minute moving image by interpolating digitally generated artificial images. CREDITSSpecial FX: Lutz GarmsenPostproduction: Matthias Neuenhofer EXHIBITION …

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Code Talker

2001Video installation Code Talker is a video portrait series, in which selected people describe themselves and their work in their mother tongues—here Danishand Navajo—and in composed (film) settings. Text panels in English provide information about the person and the topic. Code Talker #1: Dr. Steen Rasmussen, head of Biological Engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory, …

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Some Scenic Views

Some Scenic Views (after Hokusai) 2000Video installationDigital Video DV, sound, speakers, flat screens Three flat screens, arranged on top of each other like a 35mm film strip, display videos of Mount Fuji, which are filmed in the three fundamental possible ways of filming: “moving camera,” “static camera,” and “static camera in a moving vessel.” EXHIBITION …

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