변환의 흔적: 마이클 웨슬리의 리노베이션 사진

웨슬리의 사진은 기본적으로 "지연된 시간"의 형식으로 삶의 이미지를 고정시킨다. 사진에서 밝게 빛나는 흐릿함은 시간이 “지평선” 위에 가시화되는 “안개”이다... 케이지가 <4′33″>에서 4분 33초 동안 피아노 뚜껑을 열었다가 내리는 퍼포먼스를 행한 후 그 사이의 모든 것이 음악이라고 선언했던 것처럼, 웨슬리는 그의 카메라 렌즈 앞에 놓인 모든 것을 미리 정해진 기간 동안 기록한다. 케이지가 무관심의 미학이라 일컬었던 절제의 태도이자 개념적인 작업 방식인 것이다. (중략) 

베를린 국립현대미술관 같은 기념비적 작업은 대표적인 예시이다. 사진에 남은 것은 사람이 아니라 사물들과 건물, 그리고 리노베이션 과정의 흔적이다. 리노베이션에서 수리와 개조 같은 행위는 보이지 않아야만 한다. 그러나 마이클 웨슬리의 사진에서는 모든 흔적과 과정이 다시 한번 세상의 이목을 받게 된다.

요아힘 예거 (베를린 국립현대미술관 관장)

Traces of Transformation: Michael Wesely’s Photographs of the Renovation

In Wesely’s pictures are frozen images of life, basically a form of “deferred time.” The bright blurs in the photographs are the “fog” in which time becomes visible “on the horizon.” …. This is why Wesely’s artistic approach has also been associated with the musician John Cage, who worked with random structures and opened music to the sounds of every-day life. Like Cage, who raised and lowered a piano lid for four minutes and thirty-three seconds (in his famous piece 4′33″) and declared everything in this period to be “music,” Wesely records everything that gets in front of the lens of his apparatus in the predetermined period. The aesthetics of indifference—that is what Cage called it: i.e., an attitude of restraint as well as a highly conceptual way of working......

Wesely directs the gaze beyond the human and into the world of things that surrounds us, that shapes us and that will also in part survive us, which is especially the case for a monument like the Neue Nationalgalerie. It is not we, the people, who remain stored in the picture, but the objects, the building and the traces of its treatment. The repairs and interventions should not themselves become the subject of discussion, but rather remain in the shadows. With Michael Wesely’s photographs, however, all the traces, all the actions once again enter into the limelight.

Written by Joachim Jäger (Director of Neue Nationalgalerie, Germany)

 마이클 웨슬리 / Michael Wesely (b.1963)

뮌헨 출생, 베를린에서 거주 및 작업

Born in Munich, Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

Staatslehranstalt für Photographie, München, Germany

Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany

Selected Exhitibions

2019

The Camera was present (1988 – 2018), Grisebach Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)

No Photos on the Dancefloor, C/O Berlin (K/C), Berlin, Germany

2018

Doubleday, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Solo)

Licht im / als Bild, Sammlung Daimler Art Collection Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2017

Camera Aberta, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil (Solo)

Auf unbekanntem Terrain, Sammlung Hurrle, Museum für aktuelle Kunst, Durbach, Germany

2016

Minus Ego, Goethe-Institut Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2015

Schule, Markgräfin Wilhelmine Gymnasium Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany (Solo)

Passion – Fan behavior and Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (K/C), Germany

2014

The epic view, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin (K/C), Germany (Solo)

Enthüllung und Verzauberung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2013

An other pencil of nature, NordLB art gallery, Hannover (K/C), Germany (Solo)

Flowers & Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (K/C), Austria

2012

Brasília(mit/with Lina Kim), Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany (Solo)

New media reloaded, Galerie von Braunbehrens, München/Munich, Germany