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Wir freuen uns sehr, mit “Pumping” die fünfte Einzelausstellung von Joel Tauber in unserer Galerie eröffnen zu können.
“Pumping” ist eine parabelartige, dreiteilige Videoinstalltion. Mit einer historischen Handkamera auf altem 16mm Material gefilmt, erzählt Tauber von der Entwicklung der Stadt Los Angeles und der Bedeutung der Southern Pacific Railroad Company, ohne deren Eisenbahnnetz diese Entwicklung in dieser Geschwindigkeit nicht hätte stattfinden können. Dass diese Leistungen nur durch rücksichtslose Eingriffe in die ursprüngliche Landschaft Kaliforniens und die hemmungslose Ausbeutung ihrer natürlichen Ressourcen Öl und Wasser möglich waren, ist ein wichtiger Aspekt dieser Erzählung. Dass dieser Boom die Endlichkeit
dieser Ressourcen weitestgehend negierte und die Infrastruktur der heutigen Metropole wenigen übermächtigen Konzernen zuspielte, erzeugte Probleme, die
teilweise erst in der Jetztzeit, 160 Jahre später, zu einem veränderten ökologischen und moralischen Bewusstsein führen.
Wie in seinen bisherigen Projekten steht Joel Tauber als Darsteller und Erzähler im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit. In den drei Projektionen sieht man ihn jeweils beim
Befüllen einer Wasserflasche mit einer alten Pumpe, beim Befahren einer verlassenen Gleisstrecke auf einer Draisine und beim Bedienen der Kamera. Eine der
Projektionen zeigt zusätzlich eine Ölförderpumpe. Taubers akkustische Interpretation synchronisiert den Bewegungshythmus aller drei Projektionen.
In seinen vergangenen Projekten verkörperte Tauber mit seinen aberkomischen - und doch alle explizit komischen Sprachformen meidenden - Experimenten
und Eskapaden den Typus des unerschütterlich gegen alle Widerstände ankämpfenden Forschers, Denkers und Abenteurers, der sich hin und wieder aus der
Literatur heraus auch ins wahre Leben verirrt, wo er nicht selten belächelt und verlacht wird.
Hier wie schon in seinem letzten großen Projekt “Sick Amour” wird der Ton ernster, trotzdem stecken in der Arbeit liebevolle Details und Querverweise. So
verweisen nicht nur Taubers Kleidung und seine regungslose Mimik auf die frühen populären Filmproduktionen eines Buster Keaton, sondern auch die Draisine.
Die Plattform der Draisine ist eine detailgetreue Vergrößerung eines einzelnen
Frames aus einem Zelluloidfilm mit den entsprechenden Perforationen für den Filmtransport in der Kamera und im Projektor. Der Film ist also nicht nur Medium, sondern wird buchstäblich auch zum Vehikel seiner Erzählung. Hier verschmelzen die Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der Stadt, in der die Filmindustrie ein
entscheidender Motor für die Entwicklung war und ist, aber die realen Konsequenzen des wirtschaftlichen, ökologischen und politischen Handelns zugunsten
einer Industrie ignoriert werden, deren grösstes Kapital die Fiktion ist.
Joel Tauber studierte Kunst am Art Center in Pasadena und in Yale. Seine Arbeiten waren in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in den USA und
Europa zu sehen, unter anderem in der Californian Biennial im Orange County Museum of Art (2004 und 2008), im De Appel Museum, Amsterdam, und in der
Werkleitzbiennale in Halle.
“Sick Amour” und “Pumping”, von denen es jeweils auch eine Kinoversion gibt, wurden außerdem auf verschiedenen Dokumentarfilmfestivals in den USA
gezeigt. “Sick Amour” wurde beim Downtown Filmfestival 2007 als bester Umweltfilm ausgezeichet. 2007-2008 gewann er den renomierten CalArts / Alpert
Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts.
We are pleased to announce our 5th solo show with the American artist Joel Tauber.
“Pumping” is an allegorical video installation. Filmed with a hand-cranked camera, Tauber meditates about the development of Los Angeles and the important
influence of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Changes to the Californian landscape and the unrestrained extraction of its natural water and oil resources
are an important aspect of his tale. This boom ignored the finite nature of its resources and placed the power of its infrastructure into the hands of a few powerful companies. The resulting problems remain unresolved 139 years later at the present time in the city.
As in his previous projects, Tauber is both the narrator and actor. In this three channel video projection the viewer follows Tauber pumping water into a jug with
an old water pump, driving with a handcar through the desert, and using an old hand-cranked camera. One of the projections adds the image of an oil pump.
Tauber’s acoustic interpretation of the automatic work of the pumps syncs rhythms in the movements of all three projections.
In past projects Tauber embodied the archetype of the explorer, thinker and adventurer, battling against all odds with his experiments and amorous exploits.
This sometimes led to chance encounters with realities in which people smiled at him - a comic West Coast Conceptualist.
In this latest project he continues an approach that was initiated in “Sick-Amour” (2007), where he already struck a more serious note. However the work is full
of beautiful details and references, with costumes and gestures evoking the early and popular films of Buster Keaton. The hand car is a detailed magnification of
a 35mm film frame including the perforations required for its transport in a camera and projector. In a very literal sense, the film becomes the medium as well
as the vehicle of its own tale. At this level of detail the city’s past and present melt together. The film industry has been and still is the important force driving
its development, but the real consequences of economic, ecological and political intrigues and dramas are ignored for the benefit of a dream machine based on
fiction.
Joel Tauber received his MFA from Art Center College of Design and his BA from Yale University. His work has been featured in the 2004 and 2008 California
Biennials, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; in Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany; in “Flight Dreams”, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova
Scotia, Canada; in ”Love is Like Oxygen”, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands; “The Gravity in Art”, De Appel Centre For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and “Systems Theory”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA. Film Festivals include the San Francisco Documentary Festival, Blue Planet Film Fest
(Los Angeles), the Hartford International Film Festival, and the Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles, where his movie, “Sick-Amour”, was awarded “Best
Green Film.” Tauber won the 2007 Contemporary Collectors of Orange County Fellowship and the 2007-2008 CalArts / Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for
Visual Arts.
VERSCHIEDENE FILMSTILLS AUF
ANFRAGE
C-PRINTS AUF ALU-DIBOND
JEWEILS 100 x 65 cm
CHECKLIST /
“PUMPING”, 2010,
DREIKANAL BLUE-RAY VIDEO INSTALLATION, WASSERBEHÄLTER. MASSGEFERTIGTE DRAISINE, SCHIENEN, METALL
MASSE VARIABEL
THREE CHANNEL BLUE-RAY VIDEO INSTALLATION, CUSTOM STEEL HANDCAR, WATER JUG,
RAILROAD TRACKS, FILM STRIPS/PILE OF METAL
DIMENSIONS VARIABLE
EDITION 3+1 AP
JOEL TAUBER
2002
1997
1995
MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA
MA, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, USA
BA, Art History & Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
“Pumping”, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010
“Pumping”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2008 DIGGING, FLYING, DIVING, LOVING, Adamski, Gallery For Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2007
Adamski, Gallery For Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA, USA
2006
“Searching For The Impossible: Digging, Flying, and Diving”, Gallery Saintonge,
Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Missoula, Montana, USA
2005
“The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music”, Adamski, Gallery for
contemporary art, Aachen, Germany
“Joel Tauber, The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music”, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
“Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004 “The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music”, Susanne Vielmetter
Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA, USA
2003 “Searching For The Impossible”, Adamski, Gallery For Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
1999 “Spiritual Anxiety: 31 Rats & 15 Doves”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
“Strictly Academic, Part 2: Works by Faculty at Wake Forest University”, Rhodes Art Center, Salem, NC
2011
“Nurturing Nature”, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
“Trees”, UCross Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, Wyoming
“Plains of Id”, California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
“Water, CA”, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, curated by Enid Baxter
Blader and Nicole Antebi
2010
“Cluster Balloons:From Lawn Chairs to Cosmic Rays”, Anderson-Abruzzo
Albequerque International Balloon Museum, Albuquerque, NM
“No Matter. Failure And Art”, The Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany, curated by Florina Limberg and Jens Papenkort
“Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies”, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY, curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian
2009
“ecoLOGIC” at the Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA, curated by Patrica Watts
“LA 2019: Cults, Collectives, & Cocooning”, 18th Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis
2008
“Flight dreams”, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada and traveling to: AGNS Western Branch, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
“California Biennial 2008”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
“The Whole World Is Still Watching”, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Irene Tsatsos
“Gravity Art”, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Rene Daalder
“Systems Theory”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
“Tree Service”, Jeanne Patterson’s Domestic Setting, LA, CA. Curated by Michael Gold and Jeanne Patterson
2007
California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
“Wunder der Prärie”, zeitraumexit e.V., Mannheim, Germany
“Love is Like Oxygen”, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“The New Authentics: Contemporary Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation”, Spertus Museum, Chicago. Curated by Staci Boris (catalog), In progress
“Excess of Subjectivity”, Miki Wick Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg
”Love in the City”, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Curated by Theo Tegelaers. 2006
“Happy Believers”, 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle, Germany. Curated by Anke Hoffmann, Solvej Ovesen, Angelika Richter and Jan Schuijren, Halle, Germany (catalog)
“Good Bye Festival”, CPH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalog)
“Eco-Lux: Art in Light of Ecology 1953-2006. Maya Lin, Samuel Yates, Kelly Poe, Rebecca Morales, Sharon Ryan, Yayoi Kusama, Brian Bress, Tia Pulitzer, Samantha Fields and Joel Tauber”, Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Kim Light and Emma Gray
“Artini Shorts 2006: roughly a 42 minute feast of moving pictures”, Missoula Art Museum, May 18. Curated by Toni Matlock. A 5 minute pre
view of “Sick-Amour” screened as part of a 42 minute video art event
2005 “THE GRAVITY IN ART”, curated by Theo Tegleaers, DE APPEL, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Still, Things Fall from the Sky”, UCR/ California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. Curated by Ciara Ennis. Catalog.
2004 “The California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Curated by Liz Armstrong and Irene Hoffman (catalog)
“Art Video Lounge”, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida. Curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Guillermo Santamarina
2003
2002
“Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles, Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, France, curated by Carlos Cardenas
and the Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France, curated by Carlos Cardenas
“Works on Paper by Gallery Artists”, Adamski, Gallery For Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
“Enter Intercessor”, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Carrie Patterson.
“Stuff From L.A. and Other Places”, Christine Konig Gallery, Vienna, Austria, curated by Skip Arnold
“To Believe Much More Than That”, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999
“Convergence: A National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Memorial Hall Center for the Arts, Wilmington, VT, USA, juried by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Senior Curator at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
1998
“1998 National Juried Exhibition”, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, USA, juried
by John Udvardy, Sculptor and Professor of Art at Rhode Island School of Design.
“New Art ’98: National Juried Exhibition”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, USA, juried by Helaine Posner, Curator at M.I.T.’s List Visual Arts Center.
“Art in the Yard: Outdoor Sculpture Show ‘98”, Hole in the Wall Studio WorkS, Raymond, ME, USA
1996
“Cybermama”, The Artscape Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1995
Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, USA
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GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2010
“Sick-Amour”, won “Best Green Film” in the 2010 Downtown Film Festival – Los Angeles
2007
Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts
Contemporary Collectors Orange County Fellowship