Step into the captivating world of Hans Weigand's "Cotton 2001," a unique room-filling art installation. Weigand's strategy playfully engages with everyday phenomena and pop culture, transforming them into a thought-provoking experience. The constructed environment features photo novels, video, paintings, and objects, inviting visitors to reflect on 1960s utopian visions inspired by "Jerry Cotton" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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This exhibition by Hans Weigand features a large-scale installation inspired by the 1960s German pulp fiction series 'Jerry Cotton' and Stanley Kubrick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Visitors can explore a constructed environment with photo novels, video, paintings, and objects that playfully engage with utopian visions and popular culture.
Hans Weigand's artistic strategy involves humorously manipulating and developing the formal language of everyday phenomena and common lifestyles, drawing from pop culture. His approach to the codes of everyday shows is both reflective and entertaining, with artistic techniques playing a subordinate role. The exhibition "Cotton 2001" draws inspiration from the "Jerry Cotton" dime novel series and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" as representatives of 1960s utopias. For the Secession, Hans Weigand has created a space-filling installation consisting of two structures: a cube and a tube, connected by a bridge. Within this ensemble, Weigand presents works created specifically for this exhibition. The exterior of the cube, the "Jerry Cotton House," displays a photo novel produced and computer-processed by the artist, narrating a woman's revenge for her father, set between Germany, Austria, Mexico, and the USA. Inside, this photo novel is accompanied by video sequences, paintings, and objects. The second structure, referencing "2001: A Space Odyssey" and other 1960s science fiction films in its material aesthetic and formal language, is accessible via a suspended walkway. Its interior showcases Weigand's works on the theme of utopias, deliberately referencing the aesthetics of "experience exhibitions" through an overwhelming accumulation of perceptions.
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