Hans-Peter Feldmann: Hans-Peter Feldmann | SOLO SHOW

The Galerie Martine Aboucaya is pleased to announce the fourth solo exhibit of Hans-Peter Feldmann. Feldmann, born in 1941, burst onto the art scene at the end of the 1960s by composing and exhibiting notebooks made up of found images like post cards, newspaper clips or posters.

These images are part of his impressive archive, organized in his very own personal system of series. He's a compulsive collector and wild about images and stories, and an original thinker.

He has an often-eccentric relationship with art: in the 1980s he left the art world and sold thimbles by mail order, opened a shop in Dusseldorf, manufactured pewter trains and published artist books. A decade later, he resumed his art right where he had left off.

His work recontextualizes our quotidian objects by cataloguing the commonplace and applying new meanings.

In this exhibition, he broaches the nude taboos and shows full size sex dolls in daily and familiar situations. One is reading a book and the other is crying.

As is his wont, he removes objects from their original context and endows these dolls with the status of a human representation, figurative sculptures without any hierarchy.