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Franz Ackermann

Exhibition — les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse

Franz Ackermann, Songline, 1998-2002
Collection Fond national d'art contemporain

Exhibition view, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 2005
© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin

Franz Ackermann, Songline, 1998-2002
Collection Fond national d'art contemporain

Exhibition view, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 2005
© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin

Born in 1963 in Neumarkt St Veit (Austria), he lives in Berlin and in Karslruhe (Germany). 

 

"I am as I journey and as I see" Franz Ackermann has declared.

 

Journeying, nomadism, the modern megalopolis, and displacement constitute the sources of his "painting". His works present themselves as organised chaos in vibrant colours, the landscapes designed by modern architects and town planners floating in environments of psychedelic echoes.

 

Songline (1998-2002), which was recently acquired by the Fond National d'Art Contemporain and installed in the great hall at Les Abattoirs, is a vast installation of painted panels, photographs, postcards, mirrors, and video. A member of Ackermann's series of Evasions, it embodies an environment which is at once visual and mental, the product of the thoughts and physical peregrinations of an artist who is indifferent to the laws of perspective and weight. It stands as a response to the vertigo of globalisation: an emancipated conception of the image.