| GERT GERMERAAD DEPICTING CRIMINALS 28 JUNE - 16 AUGUST 2008 |
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This
exhibition is about identity. Often we want to reduce the term to outer
appearance, clothes and style. How can we judge another person through
appearance? By looking at the nose?
This exhibition is especially about the criminal identity, how images live
their own life's and influence our reactions. Behind criminal actsmight
be a complex pattern of cause and consequence, personal histories and
psychological explanations.
The picture is never clear. History offers us a rich and complex material:
Pablo Escobar in his self-declared role as a Robin Hood, financing
projects for the poor in Colombia with money he earned with drugs
and extortion and the almost mythical Al - Scarface - Capone in an
explosive mix of alcohol, killings and Mafia romantics. A third type
could be someone who just looked like a criminal, but was just a poor
guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The exhibition "Depicting criminals" is questioning our perception
of criminals, and our way to judge by simple means. Life would be
simple if you could just take a look at one's nose to know...!
Utställningen
handlar om identitet. Ofta vill vi reducera det ordet till en fråga om
det yttre, om kläder utseende och stil. Hur kan man bestämma en annan
person genom utseende? Genom hans eller hennes näsa?
Den här utställningen handlar främst om den kriminelles identitet och utseende,
hur bilden lever sitt eget liv och bestämmer våra reaktioner. Bakom den
brottsliga handlingen ligger ofta ett komplext mönster av orsaker, berättelser
och psykologiska förklaringar. Bilden är aldrig entydig.
Historien ger oss rikt material; Den kriminelle Pablo Escobar i sin självdeklarerade
roll som en sorts Robin Hood, genom otaliga brott och ljusskygg
verksamhet finansierade han mängder av projekt i det fattiga
Colombia. Eller den mytomspunne Scarface, Al Capone, en underlig blandning
av maffiaromantik och massmördare. En tredje typ av kriminell är den
som utses till att vara det. Kanske var det bara en stackare som råkade
befinna sig på fel plats vid fel tillfälle?
Utställningen “Depicting Criminals” vill problematisera bilden av den kriminella,
men också hela vårt sätt att bestämma vår omvärd genom ibland för
enkla metoder.
Livet skulle allt vara bra enkelt om det räckte med att se på någons näsa
för att veta…!
BIOGRAFI
Gert
Germeraad,
Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1959, lives and works in Eljaröd south of
Brösarp, Sweden. Educated at the Academy of fine Art, Rotterdam. He has had
many exhibitions in Sweden and the Netherlands in galleries and
museums. For example at Sölvesborg Konsthall, Adelsnäs Orangeri in
Åtvidaberg, Galerie de Zaal, Delft and the Dutch Ambassy in Yakarta,
Indonesia. He has had several public and private commissions as
portraits and public sculpture. He also had grants from the Dutch
Fonds BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and
Architecture) and Stroom Den Haag. He is represented in public and
private collections in The Netherlands, Germany, Danmark and
Sweden.Upcoming exhibitions: Norrköping Konstforum, 2008, Sculpture park De
Heemtuin, Leidschendam, The Netherlands, 2008.
www.gertgermeraad.nl
PRESS
IMAGES
Can
be downloaded at http://www.neongallery.nu/pressbilder_sommaren2008.zip
HOURS
Tuesday-Friday
10 am-5 pm
Saturday-Sunday 12 am-4 pm
Admission
20 SEK
PRESSBILDER
Kan laddas ned på:
http://www.neongallery.nu/pressbilder_sommaren2008.zip
ÖPPETTIDER
Tisdag-fredag
10-17
Lördag-Söndag 12-16








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