Guido van der Werve\u2019s creative work consists of films and videos of performances and actions, for which the artist \u2013 who has also completed musical training \u2013 often composes special soundtracks. His works deal with a wide range of cultural topics, although the artist always critically and sensitively questions their function as access to an experience of the world. His films are characterised by the artist\u2019s own activities as a performer; he always appears as a protagonist in his works, often exposing himself to tremendous physical hardships and dangers, as in the video film \u201eNumber 8: Everything is going to be alright\u201c, for example, in which van der Werve walks across frozen Finnish seas only a few metres in front of a huge icebreaker, or when he completes a 28-mile marathon from a New York gallery to the grave of composer Rachmaninov in order to lay a bouquet of camomile blossoms on it. These are filmic compositions that include lyrical and musical elements and deeply move the viewer with their wonderful, but equally melancholy images.
\nThe exhibition \u201eEmotional Poverty\u201c shows a selection of the artist\u2019s recent works, including the documentation of van der Werve\u2019s climb up Aconcagua, or \u201eEffugio C, You\u2019re always just half a day a way\u201c, a 12-hour HD-video showing how the artist – wearing running gear – circled his house in the Finnish town of Hassi for twelve hours without interruption (2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-2906","kb_exhibition","type-kb_exhibition","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":1252,"article_image_bu_de":"","article_image_bu_en":"","datum_suche":"2012-06-20 15:06:31"},"yoast_head":"\n