Cindy Sherman

artist Alexander Hahn</a> (b. 1954) has created experimental video works and installations in which banal everyday experiences are transformed into profound philosophical reflections on human existence.</p><p>The ten-minute video “Getting Nowhere” documents a conversation with an early form of artificial intelligence, the chat robot ELIZA, which was developed in the 1960s at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. The dialogue is from 1981, a time when the Cold War and the arms race between East and West were still a real threat to the world community.</p><p>The interviewer asks the computer about the probability of a nuclear attack and its consequences for both humans and computers, but instead of answering the questions clearly, they are simply rephrased and returned to the questioner. The chatbot thus acts as a psychotherapist, getting the sender of the worried and doubtful inquiries to find the answers themselves. This call for self-analysis, which illustrates that man-made problems can only be solved by humanity itself, ends in nothingness.</p><p>Hahn’s “Getting Nowhere” appears as an extremely current work of art, even though it is over 40 years old. In 2023, when both the threat of the use of nuclear weapons and the potential of the universal problem solver “artificial intelligence” were discussed in the daily press, the artist asked the program ChatGPT to comment on the historical dialogue and give its own suggestion of what it would have answered. It turned out that the dialogue with newer versions of artificial intelligence also led nowhere.</p><p><br></p>" />

Caroline Achaintre</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Cindy-Sherman/"/Artist/Emilia-Bergmark/82AB8646F3DFE48E">Emilia Bergmark</a>, Imi <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Cindy-Sherman/"/Artist/Imi-Knoebel/8C5CA3BED9DE47C1">Knoebel, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Cindy-Sherman/"/Artist/Boris-Rebetez/CC1F91513C2DA382">Boris Rebetez</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Cindy-Sherman/"/Artist/Ursula-Klara-Reuter-Christiansen/9894226CC5EE0D98">Ursula Reuter Christiansen</a>.</p><p>Underpinning the sculptures and architectural models by Boris Rebetez in the center of the gallery is a modernist grammar based on geometrical elements such as the triangle, square angle, and circle. Akin to contemporary architecture, these means of expression shape the artist’s visual vocabulary, bringing the sculptures to life as complete syntactic forms.</p><p>The walls of the main space showcase works on paper by the contemporaries Ursula Reuter Christiansen and Imi Knoebel. Reuter Christiansen crafts enchanting forests and castles that capture the imagination, while Knoebel’s paintings infuse the room with vibrant colors and dynamic movement from his latest Etcetera series, which inherit the artist’s established formal language.</p><p>Barbette, a tufted wall piece by Caroline Achaintre, takes center stage in the showroom. It is juxtaposed with the artist’s characterful ceramic masks and a reverse glass painting by Emilia Bergmark titled Kitchen Sink Realism (Spilled Milk). This work references the British cultural movement “Kitchen Sink Painters” of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of artists who depicted domestic scenes of everyday life.</p><p><br></p>" />