The Human Abused (Der geschundene Mensch) by Günther Uecker
February 4 to March 6, 2011 @ Homecoming Centre of the District Six Museum, 15A Buitenkant Street, Capetown http://www.districtsix.co.za/
This exhibition is organized by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and is part of the German Cultural Weeks in the Cape 2010/11
"My subject is life and death", says German artist Guenther Uecker about his work. His exhibition "The Human Abused: 14 Pacified Implements", created between the German autumn of 1992 and spring 1993 lives through the contrast, the discord of these poles.
Uecker reacts to the rise of xenophobia and to the use of violence against foreigners in Germany two years after unification in 1990. Uecker responds - in the language of form typical for him, namely slats of wood, linen cloths, nails, stones, ash, sand, pages of writing -- to the injury of a human being by a human being.
In these works of art -- meant to warn -- he expresses his visions of life and suffering and tries to reveal basic human drives: aggression, injury, destruction, setting against them gestures of reconciliation. As Uecker says, "thus my protest, my statement is an expression of my agitation, a portrait of an artist in Germany, so to speak."
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