Pensée Sauvage – On human freedom
Group exhibition
Opening: May 19, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 20.05. - 01.07.2007
As a co-production of Ursula Blickle Foundation and Frankfurter Kunstverein, the
exhibition Pensée Sauvage, which uses the title of the well known book by Lévi-
Strauss, presents an interesting take on the actual fact of meeting the stranger and
the notion of freedom. All the works selected for the exhibition have one common
denominator: the desire to provoke a new confidence – confidence in our senses
and in our capability to imagine the world beyond the anxiety of the everyday. The
artworks perform a détournement, involving the viewer as an active operator, an
editor, a translator, a transmitter. Pensée Sauvage intends to construct a state of
persuasion where our appreciation of the aesthetic goes hand in hand with an invitation
to exercise the political.
Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Lene Berg, Andrea Büttner, Patricia Esquivias, Cao Guimarães,
Henrik Håkansson, Tamara Henderson, Marine Hugonnier, Rosalind Nashashibi, Deimantas Narkevicius, Markus Oehlen,
Maria Pask, Anu Pennanen, Mandla Reuter, Lisi Raskin, Aida Ruilova
The exhibition will be shown parallel in the Frankfurter Kunstverein (May 25 – July 8, 2007).
Please notice that not all of the artists will be presented in both venues.
A catalogue will be published with texts by:
Jennifer Allen, Anselm Franke, Ingo Niermann/Christian Kracht, Chus Martínez, Axel Stockburger and Jan Verwoert.
Curator: Chus Martínez, Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein
