ANNA KLINKHAMMER GALERIE, DÜSSELDORF
Andrea Lehmann
GREENELAND, 2008/2009
Oil, damar varnish on canvas, oil on cardboard, plastic foil
Installation ca. 17 × 10 × 2.60/2.80 m
Andrea Lehmann (D) - GREENELAND
Andrea Lehmann has created, painted and built a wonderful, picturesque room installation. On the scene: the Euphonia, an instrument to create human voice tones – the precursor of the telephone, which Alex Graham Bell claimed for and patented. Motivated by greed and an inbred philanthropic interest for the deaf-mute and their eternal eugenic prevention. We enter Greeneland, a special parallel world, where to find the details and other historical anecdotes of the technologies of the late 19th Century, and the worries and sorrows of the late British Empire of the first half of the 20th Century. Lehman takes us into a game of self-reflection and self-questioning of the picturesque media and sculptural space amongst the visitors and her own work.
Christoph Matthias Plum 2009, Adapted version from German Text
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