Barcelona
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Aragó 255
November 22, 2001–January 27, 2002
Museum Ludwig
Heinrich-Böll-Platz
May 29–August 11, 2002
Centre National de la Photographie
Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild
11 rue Berryer
February 20–May 13, 2002
Hans-Peter Feldmann’s artistic bio commences with his decision to abandon painting in 1968; photographs, he stated, were “entirely sufficient” to convey the idea of his art. Out of a conceptual preoccupation with reproducible images came a trove of mass-media artifacts, amateur photos, and the artist’s own shots, all of which he categorizes and processes in booklets, posters, journals, and photographic series. This survey is intended as an overview of the transition from Feldmann’s approach in the ’70s—he is frequently touted as a forerunner of appropriation art—to the “social and political reality of the nineties.”