A twopart publication will be released in march, which consists of an artists book, giving more insight into the project and a reader with texts by quinn latimer, kirsty bell and an interview with the artist. The study had two goals to analyse the potential threat and. Tales 08, 2015 miami beach, florida, december 2008 20 pages, 23 x 17 cm. Cramer and i had spoken via email about not wanting the visit to feel too much like a formal interview. This still life photograph, untitled eusebius jerome 2009 by berlinbased artist daniel gustav cramer, takes as its subject one of mankinds earliest attempts at a universal chronicle of its history. It is an expanding archive of books founded in 2007 and made through the recombination of pages from one or more publications found, dating from 1890 up to the 1980s. The complexity only really appears once one comes across several of these works together. In his photographs, text works and books, he depicts structured systems as well as personal experiences.
The contemporary art centre cac in vilnius is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by german artist daniel gustav cramer in lithuania. Daniel cramer wrote also neolatin drama, and controversial works in theology. For haris epaminondas installation inside the meisterhaus feininger in dessau, six individual recordings are compiled into a single track. Early summer the end of summer late autumn is a monographic book presenting the cumulative result of a threepartite project by daniel gustav cramer and haris epaminonda. Book design design art print design graphic design altered books altered art moleskine layout book binding. Daniel gustav cramers display and their contextualization unfolds a structure of memory that goes beyond the visible water formations. The books of emblems composed by daniel cramer are considered by some scholars for example adam mclean and giordano berti as expressions of the rosicrucian thought. His photographs, for example, show quite unremarkable scenes, which are open to interpretation snapshots of the moment with minimal action, yet emanating a lyrical narrative force that. The two artists haris epaminonda and daniel gustav cramer collaborated on a triptych of exhibitions that had as its starting point a series of observations and interpretations on the work of japanese filmmaker yasujiro ozu.
Each individual work is proposing a system, this one system that is the world around us, shifted every time, viewed from a different angle. For the individual, experienced stories, narratives and interpersonal encounters are what make time palpable as a subjective entity. Fotobookfestival kassel 2018 fotobookfestival kassel. Please apply nine layers of paint onto the walls of the exhibition space in the order and for the duration as listed. Daniel gustav cramer graphic design inspiration, graphic. Haris epaminonda and daniel gustav cramer, an autumn afternoon, 20172018, exhibition view, sperling, munich daniel gustav cramer, earth impact database, 2015, book, 22,5 x 16,5 x 3 cm daniel gustav cramer, tales argaka, cyprus, august 2017, 2017, cprint, 29 x 24 cm. Art research map daniel gustav cramer fourteen works. Each of his works refers back to his practice as a whole an archive of stories, scientific researches and recorded moments mapping the relationship between experience and memory. He welcomes us into the old building with the sounds of ink spots quietly murmuring in the background. Daniel gustav cramer s series of works 2009ongoing is spare and elegant, but a closer look at this particular collection of photographs, book works and sculptures reveals the artists impressive capacity for maintaining contradictory positions. This collection presents thirtysix works by the berlinbased artist daniel gustav cramer.
The book feels like an exhibition in its own right, isolating for each of its pages a selection of photographs, objects, previous work marking the passing of time in ways that are both personal and historic. Article by henry andersen studio visit photographs by conor clarke. Arriving at the friedrichshain studio of daniel gustav cramer, i did not bring any zoom recorder or other microphone, only a pencil and small writing pad. 7 x 6 cm each installation view at werksmidjan, hjalteyri, iceland. Daniel gustav cramer portraits tique publication on. For the past ten years, kassel in germany has been home to one of the most important annual forums on the world of photography books. The two artists collaborated on a triptych of exhibitions that had as its starting point a series of observations and interpretations on the work of japanese filmmaker yasujiro o. For his fourth exhibition at galeria vera cortes the first in the new space which opened last fall, daniel gustav cramer 1975, neuss, germany, brings together a group of works that are in dialogue with each other through the simple intertwining of. Katherine, northern territory, australia, may 24, 2009, 2017 7 stacks of paper, text, 21 x 29. Haris epaminonda and daniel gustav cramer first met in 2001.
His vast studio is brimming with photographic treasures. Every moment, inasmuch as it is a passage from rest to rest, is absolutely indivisible. Daniel gustav cramers series of works 2009ongoing is spare and elegant, but a closer look at this particular collection of photographs, book works and sculptures reveals the artists impressive capacity for maintaining contradictory positions. Daniel gustav cramer, old tjikko 2017, 7 books, leather bound, on 3 iron shelves, old tjikko is known to be one of the oldest clonal trees in the world, with an estimated age of more than 9500 years. The works of daniel gustav cramer are based on accurate observations of invisible moments that only reveal themselves at a second glance. Based on the greek chronicle of eusebius, the tome pictured is a latin. The table is set low in the frame, leaving a vacuous space above. It is primarily an expanding archive of books, each created out of pages of one or more found books and bound anew. On a misty november morning we visited daniel gustav cramer at his berlin studio in friedrichshain. Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. He sharpens the vision for reality gaps and leads us to the borders of human modes of perception and thought in his works.
Daniel gustav cramer was born in 1975 in dusseldorf and lives in berlin. Daniel gustav cramer is known for his reduced yet complex spacial compositions using various media including film, sculpture, installation and text. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. The study had two goals to analyse the potential threat and gather data of appearances for further studies. Daniel gustav cramer wall street international magazine. His photographs, for example, show quite unremarkable scenes, which are open to interpretation snapshots of the moment with minimal action, yet emanating a lyrical narrative force that addresses the imagination and causes the viewer to ponder. Daniel gustav cramer nineteen tique publication on. The two artists collaborated on a triptych of exhibitions that had as its starting. The infinite library is an ongoing project by daniel gustav cramer and haris epaminonda. Each book is a document of a time span taken on a threeday trip earlier this year. Daniel gustav cramer, project blue book, 2017, 5 books leatherbound, wooden box, felt, found photograph, 30. The infinite library is an ongoing collaboration between haris epaminonda nicosia, 1980 and daniel gustav cramer neuss, 1975.
Daniel gustav cramers artistic practice consists of peculiar constellations of objects, figures, images and narrations. Thirtysix presents thirtysix works by daniel gustav cramer in the restricted space of a book. Photopaper nominated daniel gustav cramer for this edition. Early summer the end of summer late autumn haris epaminonda, daniel gustav cramer on. An experimental internet project, the beehive, was released in 2005, which lasted for two years and eventually led to the collaborative project the infinite library, an ongoing book project which is primarily an expanding archive of books, each created out of pages of one or more found books and bound anew.
Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Jul 15, 2009 daniel gustav cramer and haris epaminonda. Daniel gustav cramer works with objects, text, photographs, sound, film and books. With these images, the man unconsciously mapped the space between the two shores of the fjord, with his childhood home on the one side and his current place of residence on the other. It attempts to expose the many layers and various possible perspectives one can opt for when looking at an object. Daniel gustav cramer is known best for his sparse aesthetic in multiple mediums. In recent years he has presented his works in international solo exhibitions including at tongewolbe t25, ingolstadt 2018, entree, bergen 2017, cac vilnius 2017, verksmi. Daniel gustav cramer was born in 1975 in dusseldorf. Daniel gustav cramer portraits in the last years cramer assembled a growing archive of brief as well as epic stories, from the first step on the moon or the sinking of the rms titanic to a street musician playing outside a parking lot somewhere in australia. The platform connecting collectors, artists and galleries through innovation and art expertise. Jan 26, 2018 daniel gustav cramers display and their contextualization unfolds a structure of memory that goes beyond the visible water formations. Jan, 2018 daniel gustav cramer, old tjikko 2017, 7 books, leather bound, on 3 iron shelves, old tjikko is known to be one of the oldest clonal trees in the world, with an estimated age of more than 9500 years. Daniel gustav cramer s artistic practice consists of peculiar constellations of objects, figures, images and narrations.
Project blue book was the attempt to systematically study the appearance of unidentified flying objects conducted by the united air force from 1952 to 1970. As frozen moments, the photographs attest to the crossing of actual distances by the small boat drifting across the fjord as well as the intersection of past and present. This twopart publication has been released in march 2014 on the occasion of the exhibition 0172 by daniel gustav cramer at salts. An ambitious ongoing series, simply titled works begun 2009, is comprised of a variegated range of work including film, sculptures, installations, and photography. Daniel gustav cramer at galeria vera cortes art viewer. Published by samuel leuenberger and christophe davietthery in june 2014. Please take a photograph of each state during the process from an angle which you may decide. Tales algodones desert, southern california, united states, december 2015, 2018, detail, 10 cprints, each 25 x 20 cm.
Daniel s work could function as a kind of microcosmos of the world. Apr 08, 2016 daniel gustav cramers artistic practice consists of peculiar constellations of objects, figures, images and narrations. Daniel gustav cramer works in a multitude of media such as photography, sculpture, bookmaking and textwork, which often, when united in a show, assume a conceptual metastructure which points towards narration and well beyond. The two artists collaborated on a triptych of exhibitions that had as its starting point a series of observations and interpretations on the work of japanese filmmaker yasujiro ozu. It is an exhibition of cramer s works in its own right, that exceeds mere documentation and makes for multifaceted new associations and moods. Haris epaminonda and daniel gustav cramer at sperling. Daniel gustav cramer at contemporary art centre art viewer.
Daniel gustav cramer tales algodones dunes, california, united states, december 2015, 2017. With contributions by kirsty bell, quinn latimer, and samuel leuenberger, the book was designed by ronnie fueglister in collaboration with daniel gustav cramer. So far he has produced more than thirty artist books and publications. There are a series of projects, achronological to their implementation, named by successive numbers, which, one day, will lay down together becoming yet another project. It consists of an artists book, giving more insight into the project and a reader with texts from quinn latimer, kirsty bell and an interview with the artist. Dec 04, 2018 daniel gustav cramer, project blue book, 2017, 5 books leatherbound, wooden box, felt, found photograph, 30. They constitute variant inbetween relations and reveal different aspects in each exhibition. Rainbow is a work by daniel gustav cramer for fotexolutions freiburg. Daniel gustav cramer works in a multitude of media such as photography, sculpture, book making and textwork, which often, when united in a show, assume a conceptual metastructure which points towards narration and well beyond. Daniel gustav cramer and haris epaminonda i like this art.
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