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1975 - Diario di strada / Diary from the Road, KUNSTSAELE Berlin, 2017
Daniela Comani
1975 - Diario di strada / Diary from the Road
curated by Miriam Schoofs
November 21 - 29, 2017

Opening and book launch: November 21, 7 p.m.

KUNSTSAELE Berlin
Bülowstrasse 90
10783 Berlin

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Collecting, arranging and listing are procedures that Comani utilizes in most of her works, especially in her fictitious autobiographical history of the 20th century Ich war's. Tagebuch 1900-1999 (2002). In doing so, Comani expands the principle of minimalistic seriality and bureaucratic 'recording systems' (Friedrich Kittler) to ironic and discursive dimensions.

By choosing a pocket calendar from 1975 and making a document from her childhood the point of departure and component of her artistic work, Daniela Comani incorporates a material found object and a testimony of childish pedantry into her own conceptual practice. Thereby she simultaneously points out - indeed not without irony - the similarities between conceptual artistic approaches and cultural deeply rooted practices, whose traces can be already found in childish pastime and play.

The photographs of the work, deriving from different image types and origins - from product catalogues to advertisements to the internet -, are digitally reworked to such an extent that it results in a homogeneous, non-hierachical series of different car brands. At the same time the car is much more than a social status model: As the epitome of the modern means of transport it stands for industrial mass production, for the consumer society, as well as  at least according to the understanding of the time  for social progress and individual freedom.

The found object, the inscribed pocket calendar of the year 1975 is first of all an autobiographical memory. In conjunction with the presented series of photographs, Comani turns it into a cultural-historical document and the portrait of an era.

Miriam Schoofs, Berlin, 2017

Vernissage and book launch:
Tuesday, 21.11.2017, 19:00 (admission free)
on the occasion of the release of:

1975 - Diario di strada / Diary from the Road
artist book by Daniela Comani, published by Archive Books, Berlin
with a text by Matthias Harder
swiss brochure, 104 pages, 47 images, black/white, 12 x 18 cm, Archive Books, Berlin
edition of 850, 15 EUR
1 - 50 numbered and signed enclosed with an original print, 90 EUR

Installation photo: Sebatian Eggler

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