Kunstmuseum Basel, St. Alban-Graben 16 CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland
16 January – 3 May 2009
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum presents today Enrico David - How Do You Love Dzzzzt by Mammy?. The sculptures, gouaches, embroideries, photographs and installations by Enrico David feature a broad spectrum of cultural reference systems.
The indeterminate exhibition title How Do You Love Dzzzzt by Mammy? refers to the ineffable, to a lack of clarity and an uncertainty that is encountered all through life. When Enrico David is asked about the meaning of the title, he replies that the question about the meaning is what the title is about. “Bit by bit, life robs you of certainty. There can never be any fixed path” (E. David).
A second installation presents itself as a kind of diorama, a playhouse that exploits the effect of trompe-l’oeil. We are spectators at a scene based on the Surrealist photo collage vielle femme et enfant (ca. 1935) by Dora Maar. The original picture shows a panelled room, the floor covered with mud, and a boy rubbing up against a woman.
David reconstructs the space in its main features, but combines these with very personal materials, based on the bedroom that his father designed for him in the 1970s. The figures in the background have been exchanged for depictions of a wooden doll and the artist himself.
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