Hans Winkler   march 16 - april 16, 2001 arche 2001 library boat installation     invite image         installation view               ___________________________________ Hans Winkler, press release Pierogi is very pleased to present an installation by German artist Hans Winkler. Winkler has been working individually, and in collaboration with Stefan Micheel as p.t.t.red, since 1988. Projects for p.t.t.red have included Ursa in Orbit, 1993: where Winkler and Micheel dressed in bear costumes and lived for several days in the National Park of Berchtesgaden, in Bavaria, Germany, where wild bear have been extinct for a century. Spotted by tourists and reported to the authorities, the bears became the center of a media frenzy. And in 1997, Hermitage Library: near Brenner Pass, at 7000Õ altitude, on the Italian-Austrian border, p.t.t.red equipped a cabin with a bed, heater and book shelves and, after soliciting suggestions from scientists, philosophers and writers from around the world, created a library of books in a variety of languages (such as Peter Handke, Franz Kafka, T.C.Boyle, Nietzsche, Goethe, etc.). The cabin was open to anyone who made the two hour trek from Brenner Pass. p.t.t.redÕs New York projects have included Red, 1996; for which they placed red films over spotlights on the Statue of Liberty, bathing Lady Liberty in a red glow for several hours until the unusual hue was noticed and the films were removed by the authorities. WinklerÕs Arche 2001 installation will feature an 18 foot wooden fishermanÕs dory from Gloucester, Massachusetts fitted with shelves holding telephone directories from around the world. Winkler made his first exhibition using telephone directories in 1986, Telephonebooks in Telephonebooths, where he filled three telephone booths from floor to ceiling with telephone books. For the current installation he has been gathering directories since 1995 and part of the collection was exhibited in 1997 in Chicago as Human Encyclopedia. The directories included in this exhibition are ones mainly from port cities and capital cities; are varied in size, color and script, and will be available for viewers to peruse. In WinklerÕs view, this global telephone directory library retains the tradition of the conventional library. At the same time, however, it is a precursor to the global network and might soon become a relic of the past.
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