Traum and Trauma/Dream and Trauma : Werke Aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen/Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens

by Wien, Kunsthalle

• ISBN13: 9783775720649
• ISBN10: 3775720642
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Sigmund Freud defined trauma as "an experience which, within a short period of time, presents the mind with an increase of stimulus too powerful to be dealt with or worked off in the normal way." The subject represses the traumatic experience, which then begins to enter into consciousness through its only other avenue, the dream--or, quite often, the nightmare. In art, psychological pain often finds expression in surrealistic, dream-like or seemingly absurd images. Thus, the "aesthetics of trauma" makes visible those things that have been repressed, that are depraved or that expose painful wishes, desires or dreams. This provocative collection brings together artworks by some of the most psychologically tapped-in (and, in some cases, unhinged) artists in the contemporary field--all of whom are represented in the world-famous Dakis Joannou Collection of Athens, Greece. They include Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy, Pavel Althamer, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Nigel Cooke, Gregory Crewdson, Marcel Dzama, Olafur Eliasson, Urs Fischer, Anna Gaskell, Robert Gober, Matt Greene, Jeff Koons, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Tim Noble/Sue Webster, Chris Ofili, Kiki Smith, Nari Ward, Ralf Ziervogel and many others.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 8
Art and Wound: On the Aesthetics of Dream and Trauma	p. 10
Remarks on the Exhibition	p. 24
The Seduction of Art: A Collector, a Collection	p. 28
Pawel Althamer	p. 44
Maurizio Cattelan	p. 46
Paul Chan	p. 48
Nigel Cooke	p. 52
Gregory Crewdson	p. 56
Nathalie Djurberg	p. 60
Marcel Dzama	p. 66
Olafur Eliasson	p. 72
Urs Fischer	p. 76
Saul Fletcher	p. 86
Barnaby Furnas	p. 92
Anna Gaskell	p. 98
Robert Gober	p. 104
Matt Greene	p. 114
William Kentridge	p. 122
Jeff Koons	p. 126
Paul McCarthy	p. 130
Tim Noble/Sue Webster	p. 132
Chris Ofili	p. 138
Poka-Yio	p. 142
Georgia Sagri	p. 146
Cindy Sherman	p. 152
Kiki Smith	p. 156
Christiana Soulou	p. 166
Nari Ward	p. 172
Christopher Wool	p. 176
Ralf Ziervogel	p. 178
Dream Journeys: Shakespeare's Nocturnal Forest and Freud's Other Stage Setting	p. 184
Drawings	p. 197
Works on Display	p. 234
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