Opening: Friday, March 16, 2012, 7pm

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is pleased to present Florian Zeyfang’s first solo exhibition in Stuttgart.
The exhibition “Stones” is a continuation of the Stuttgart-born artist’s long-term preoccupation with experimental forms of moving images and narration, showing the results of a new body of work, which takes up Zeyfang’s fundamental question of the use of media and the reflective breaking up of media.

Archives, still moving images and reduction serve as the central starting points for the exhibition. Stones seem to defy the quality of moving images; they are lifeless and yet charged with time and history. From a linguistic and terminological point of view the term “stone” covers a wide range of appearances. Zeyfang approaches the different forms of stones at the site where he finds them or uses images of processed stones forming parts of a city archive for his video and slide projections. Both as remnants of a city and as erratics, stones shape a time frame which, owing to its size, can hardly be perceived or depicted.

Florian Zeyfang was born in Stuttgart in 1965. He grew up in Stuttgart and Bremen and studied art in Berlin where he currently lives and works as an artist, author, and curator. His interest for alternating organizational forms between group and individual activities continues to be present in various projects. His works can be seen at international exhibitions and film festivals.

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SCHEDULE:

Saturday, March 17, 2012, 7pm-2am
LANGE NACHT DER MUSEEN
Exhibitions and workshops at Künstlerhaus are open.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 6pm
Curatorial Exhibition Tour with Adnan Yildiz

Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7pm
“Thinking Like A Stone”
Lecture by Clemens Krümmel and film screening
Clemens Krümmel will provide an illustrated analysis of several motives from the Japanese film “Nowhere Man” as well as talk about the aesthetics of enlivened stones by showing clips from other films and works.
After the lecture, the film “Nowhere Man” will be shown. It is centered on a manga artist who chooses to quit his commercialised profession and starts to run a stone shop. „Nowhere Man“ is the direction debut of actor Naoto Takenaka. It is based on a famous manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge and was awarded the Fipresci prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1991.

„Nowhere Man“ („Muno no hoto“)
Japan 1991, Japanese with English subtitles, 107 min
director and leading role: Naoto Takenaka