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

"When someone works things out about themselves in a very egocentric, very stupid, very plain way, but also very honestly, very sincerely, and turns these things outwards, and other people suddenly recognize their own problems in these things made by someone else, and they understand something, feel something, then and only then does art happen." (Hans Peter Feldmann, taken from an interview by Kasper König, Frieze 91, May 2005)

Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, lives in Düsseldorf) entered the art world in the late 1960s, when he began to construct and exhibit editions of small booklets containing found images such as postcards, magazine clippings and posters. These images constituted part of Feldmann's massive "Picture Archive," an assortment of images categorized according to the artist's own system. In the event that a part of the archive was incomplete (an image was missing), Feldmann would capture this image via his own photography. Using image reproduction, photography or otherwise, as a means to illuminate the mysteries of daily life, he consistently gives credence to under-recognized art forms such as the photo album, never underestimating the power of the most "common" aesthetic strategies.