 Christoph Draeger Black September Roebling Hall is pleased to present Christoph Draeger's latest New York exhibition. Titled "Black September" the exhibition takes as its starting point the present-day confluence of international news and international terror by invoking one of the first incidents in history in which political violence played to an audience of millions of people worldwide. On September 5, 2002, Christoph Draeger's first solo exhibition in Berlin opened exactly on the 30th anniversary of the abduction and murder of eleven Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics. Dubbed "Black September" by the terrorists and the print and television outlets to whom they played, the event proved to be a climax of spectacular violence for an early generation of consumers of modern media, including the kidnappers, who watched the preparations for the police assault on their own television. A partially fictional representation of events as they might have unfolded thirty some years ago, Christoph Draeger's installation "Black September" includes a reconstruction of the actual room in which a hostage died (the rest of the hostages and the terrorists were killed at the airport), excerpts from live television coverage and recreated footage of what might have taken place inside the besieged apartment. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, past and present, live and documentary footage, as well as that which exists between actual participants and mere observers, Christoph Draeger's newest installation asks key questions about historical and present-day events. Is there a link between the globalization of the image and the globalization of political terrror? Are violence and its widespread simultaneous representation bound to always go hand in hand? Disaster and violence are subjects Christoph Draeger has been exploring for the last decade. He has visited the aftermath of numerous disaster sites around the world such as plane crashes, explosions, terrorist attacks or crime scenes and researched them thoroughly. His obsession with destruction, its unpredictable nature and the voyeuristic fascination and real pathos it inspires has resulted in various celebrated projects exhibited in both Europe and the United States. Christoph Draeger has recently had or is slated to have exhibitions at the following institutions: Kunsthalle Fri-Art (Solo Exhibition), Fribourg; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando; the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool; Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Paco des Artes, Sao Paolo; and capc-Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux. February 21 - March 17, 2003 Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday 12 - 6 pm Roebling Hall 390 Wythe Avenue USA-Brooklyn, NY 11211 Telefon +718 599 5352 Fax +718 384 5075 www.brooklynart.com |
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