Follow Fluxus / Jimmy Robert
Suspended closure, suspended
September 6, 2009 to May 30, 2010 
Opening Saturday September 5, 2009, 4 to 8 pm 


In his collages, installations and performances Jimmy Robert explores the relation of the image to the human body. Each of his pictures unfolds (often literally) an object, transforms it into a spatial sculpture. The idea and the process of touching and to be touched move along the small ridge between intimacy and strangeness. In Robert’s playful yet profound transgression and progression of genres, the way he overlaps two- and three dimensional structures that permeate the most diverse forms of media, he transforms the principle of collage and decollage with wit, precision, elegance into contemporary visual idiom. The collaged templates will undergo several processes until they eventually, as a sculptural assembly, become objects of reality.

Devolved pictures, carefully archived in its sketch book, are elevated to a new life: Three motifs: A postcard with the baroque drawing of two hands, the rear view of a child, whose hand rests on the image of Alain Delon’s cheek on a poster, a still from the emotion and aggression-loaded film „ Rocco and his brothers “(Visconti, 1960) and, as a the third element, the audience view of the back of a stripteaser form the first visual level of the triptych Untitled (2006-2009). Jimmy Robert repeats the hand gestures in the pictures with his own hands turning them into a motif.

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