Franz Ackermann: My Secondary Coming

Date
Jul 6, 2008 – Aug 3, 2008
Location
Para/Site Art Space
4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan
Opening Reception
Jul 5, 2008
6:30pm

Franz Ackermann

 

Franz Ackermann (1963, Neumarkt St. Veit in West Germany) is one of the most regarded contemporary artists. After big survey exhibitions in major museums around the world he returns to the city where his career took the crucial turnaround: Hong Kong.

From 1990 to 1992, Franz Ackermann lived here and developed his idea of the Mental Maps that would later make him into one of the most regarded artist of his generation. Mental Maps are small drawings that are inspired from the cityscapes as well as brain structures and spiritual centers. These Mental Maps are concerned with the City and the Space as much as with the individual notion of moving and traveling. Originally born out of the necessity to draw in a small 2 by 1 meter room in Mong Kok, these small drawings developed into an important tool not only to remember his journeys but also function as foundations for Franz Ackermann’s bigger paintings and spectacular room-size installations.

For his first exhibition in Hong Kong, Ackermann revisits his early Mental Maps, which are complied from various collections, presented on view for the first time ever in Hong Kong. The artist stays in Hong Kong to develop a completely new wall- installation that draws reference to his early Mental Maps but also creates a series of wall-paintings acting as juxtaposition to the smaller paintings in the exhibition.

Supported by Goethe Institut Hongkong, the artist talk is held in collaboration with the Hong Kong Art School. 

 

More materials are available to view on site at Para Site. 

Click here to see a full inventory of all archive materials and contact us at archive@para-site.art for enquiries, to request an appointment to view materials, and for archival materials donations.

 

The Archive Project is financially supported by the Project Grant of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

 

 

Related event

Jul 2, 2008
6:30pm-8:30pm
Hong Kong Art School

Artist Talk: Franz Ackermann at Hong Kong Art School

 

exhibition poster (2008/ex_6/box 3/3)