BY PETER LIND REVERSE COLLECTION THE CAT LAB MUSEUMSBYGNINGEN KATALOG ARCHIVE BIOGRAPHY CONTACT
********************************************************************************************** “LE THÉÂTRE DE LA CRUAUTÉ” - 1985. Febuary 2021, The lockdown can be an opportunity to have a look at one´s back catalogue, here a photograph from the exhibition “Le Théâtre de la cruauté” held at Hvidovre Art Library and at Institut Français, Copenhagen in 1985. The book that never got realized. The title of the exhibition was taken from the essay by Antonin Artaud. After Michael Strunge saw the photographs, he encouraged me to take contact with Peter Laugesen for a translation of Artaud that could companion my photographs in a book publication. On Strunge´s introduction I traveled to Laugesen residency in Gellerupparken, where we talked about which content the book should have. The Institut Français had access to fonds for translations of French litteratur, but I never manage to find a Danish publisher that would take on the book production.********************************************************************************************** NEW-IN PROCESS January 2021, My last two book titles has arrived at NYPL and will be available for the library users in New York. ********************************************************************************************** BOOK PREVIEW + LOCKDOWN WORK July 2020, I spend the lockdown period during spring working on a new book, a single images from the book is featured in the since april ongoing GagProject and exhibition in Adelaide, Australia under the title : Love in the Time of Covid-19.
60 x 80cm, giclée print on archival rag paper, framed edition of 5
The images is a Study for the Rabbit Lab serie from 1995 and first now in 2020 it meets the public. Enquire about the work can be addressed to the Gagprojects. Further information on the upcoming book will be posted here. ********************************************************************************************** "REVERSE COLLECTION" ISBN 978-87-987920-3-1 NOVEMBER 2019, First edition of is sold out, however the book can possibly still be found on the shelves at : The bookstore at Kunsthal Charlottenborg The bookstore at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art The bookstor Buchhandlung Walther König Oneline at Abebooks Abebooks.com********************************************************************************************** NOVEMBER 2018 "FILMCITY" A BETTER VIEW : Video quality has improved over the last 20 years, this is an 2018 updated HD version of a 1996 artwork documentation. Filmcity 1996 visualising of photographic work, montage of 35 mm filmstrip.
Filmcity is a montage made of 35 mm roll film, as used in regular analog film cameras or in 35 mm film cameras, It was the standard cinema format. In a film camera you shoot 24 frames per second and later project in the same frame rate, this gives the illusion of motion, moving pictures, but in reality its all 24 fxed images. In Filmcity it's a different illusion, and another representation of time, its not 24 frames per second but all frames at once. Filmcity try to capture everything all together. Get everything on to film. One visible representation of our whole civilisation are our cities, they are testimony of our history, politic, economy, technology, architecture, culture........ In Filmcity you are looking at film strips that forms images of urban landscapes. ********************************************************************************************** BOOK APRIL 2018 "REVERSE COLLECTION" ISBN 978-87-987920-3-1 ABOUT "Reverse collection" is a montage of documentary photography from 1976 to 2012 spread over 124 pages, color and black & white. Its about treating an archive of documentary photography. An attempt to create an overview over the material, and a connection between the diffrent observations or missing connection. The simultaneity and the contradictions and the seduction of the photography. The only thing the images has in common is they all derive from from the same collection. A montage of photography representing events, locations and people as tableau or scenes.
Book cover : front & back
4 x page spreads, horisontal landscapes.
4 x page spreads, vertical stature.
6 x page spreads. Cut and continuation : The images continue across and on the back of the pages.
HISTORY : "Reverse Collection” initiated as a web publication in 2012 and from there evolved into a book publication. In 2017 a preliminary print was circulating and was nominated for Luma rencontres dummy book award and exhibited at Luma Arles during Les rencontres de la photographie, Arles 2017. September 2017, the preliminary print were part of "Burning with pleasure" exhibition at Seen Fifteen in London.
********************************************************************************************** BOOK SEPTEMBER 2016 "THE CAT LAB BY PETER LIND" 80 pages, photographs only. ISBN 978-87-987920-1-7 This book could contradict André Malraux’s saying : “An art book is a museum without walls”. “The Cat Lab “ every page is a wall, with a window or a mirror, represented by documentary photographs, looking in and looking out. Borrow the book from the library here or here or purchase it from Buchhandlung Walther König Order number: 1558121
Redhead, May 2016
Bum sleeping among girls' legs, 2014
The picture is looking, 2014
**********************************************************************************************EXHIBITION MAY-JUNE 2016
"THE CAT LAB”
At Banja Rathnov Galleri & Kunsthandel Museumsbygningen.
A montage of documentary photography across five exhibition spaces. (The exhibition was supported by : The Danish Arts Foundation / Statens Kunstfond)
Overview wall space Museumsbygningen, May 2016
Spectators , 2013
Spectators spectators, 2013
Spectators spectators spectators, 2013
Overview space Museumsbygningen, May 2016
Overview space montage on floor : The Cat Lab
Overview wall space Museumsbygningen, May 2016
Beachscape, two Chinese ladies approaching the sea, 2015
Scenery, 2014
**********************************************************************************************ARTICLE MAY 2016 Katalog vol. 27, no. 1 2016
REVERSE ENGINEERING THE ARCHIVE: PETER LIND’S ARCHIVAL PROJECTS. By Peter Alexander van der Meijden.
Passages taken from the archicle : Saying what Peter Lind is not is easier than saying what he is, and the same goes for his work. One thing that Lind certainly is not, is a photographer, even though photographs are his primary material and he himself is the person who takes them. Lind’s attitude towards photography seesaws between acceptance and resistance. “Photography is a seductive medium”, ... “and the first one to be seduced is the one who takes the picture" ”I want it to look like the myriad of other images that have been made earlier.” Lind works with juxtaposition and association, but symbolism is alien to his world. ”I want to design my current exhibition like a movie, where you move from one scene to another, where one image leads you to the next. It has to be fresh and alive; alive like walking into a movie”. “In order to create an overview, you have to take a certain degree of distance”
**********************************************************************************************CONTINUE TO ARCHIVE : Video documentation 1996 to 2012
Film strips drying for the Rabbit Lab project, 1994
**********************************************************************************************CONTACT INFORMATIONPETER LIND
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