The Dead: Hans-Peter Feldmann. RAF, APO, Baader-Meinhof: 1967-1993
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VIENNA • Kunsthalle • Ongoing
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The photo series Die Toten by the artist Hans-Peter Feldmann from Düsseldorf shows 91 coarse-grained images cut out of newspapers and magazines. All of the pictures show corpses of people tied to RAF terrorism: perpetrators, victims, and those who simply landed accidentally in the line of fire. The video image of Hanns Martin Schleyer, the kidnapped president of the German employers’ association, hangs next to a picture of Holger Meins’s dead body, visibly marked by starvation; a family photo of a housewife accidentally hit by a bullet juxtaposes the image of terrorist Andreas Baader lying in a pool of his own blood. All are in the same format and arranged chronologically according to the date of death. Hans-Peter Feldmann, who never sympathized with the ideology of the Baader-Meinhof group, has been accused of not differentiating between perpetrators and victims, of allowing for a lack of empathy and human devotion. Die Spiegel, for example, wrote: “is it enough to cut the pictures of the dead from the newspaper, to stick them in a frame and hang them on the wall?”
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