Tag: Mike Merkenschlager

USA > Amerika!

The USA show has ended, but will soon travel to London, to be part of Amerika: idea; fantasy; dream; myth; image, opening at the Camberwell Space on the 7th of January 2014!

Amerika: idea; fantasy; dream; myth; image

Aquarelle of roof tops

08 Jan – 14 Feb 2014

 

Opening reception: 7 January, 5.30 – 8pm

‘Amerika‘ is an exhibition exploring the different ways in which America is viewed and thought of by non-Americans, and the ways in which these ideas are variously represented by artists in their work.

Many of the artworks on display show incomplete ideas which conjure a sense of place and evoke the mythological magic of the country which has inspired so many artists, filmmakers, writers and poets to try to capture its essence over the years.

Amerika is organised by Alasdair Duncan, with Jack Lovell, and Mike Merkenschlager.

Image: Magdalena Wisniowska

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USA participating artists: Mike Merkenschlager

Mike Merkenschlager

I’m interested in the potential of images within image-literate societies: as visual information, as surrogates for ideas and as things. In Crossed Fingers, we see a familiar hand gesture staged for the camera. In the 1950s an American safe company used this image to criticise our reliance on luck and our faith in the supernatural. But images have a habit of not being the best at doing what they were intended to do. So what does this image mean now, here, and now, and now?

Mike Merkenschlager is a London-based visual artist, working primarily with photographic images.                                                                                         MM 2013