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History and Heritage: His Story and Her Restaging. On Sandra Peters’s Sculpture

Modernism has been understood as a “grand narrative,” if only because that was the neat account its theorists fashioned of it; this account proved influential. It lent credence to efforts to unearth all—and there had been a whole lot—that had been excluded or marginalized…

Essay by Gregor Stemmrich

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Architecture – Sculpture – Sound

Sound has been increasingly significant in Sandra Peters’s recent work. Yet it would be simplistic to call her output “sound art,” a label that, in the past twenty years, has come to designate a distinctive genre…

Essay by Fiona McGovern

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Learning from Los Angeles

In 1920, Rudolph Michael Schindler arrived in Los Angeles to supervise the design and construction of a house for Aline Barnsdall under the distant direction of its master architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, who already had his hands full with the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Schindler was…

Essay by Michael Ned Holte

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Sound Column : Circling Sound

It is one thing to purchase Sandra Peters’s record as a multiple and to play it and listen to it on a turntable; it is other thing to hear the various tracks distributed across (at least) four loudspeakers and to experience in an installation how the sound evokes…

Essay by Gregor Stemmrich

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Défilé des ombres–Passage d’images: A Film by Sandra Peters

Watching a film is not the same as seeing it and wanting to know how it was made. The question is how what we see affects us. If we experience a film as particularly attractive or stimulating, then the question comes into play what can have such…

Essay by Gregor Stemmrich

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Shadows, Traces, Myths: On Sandra Peters’s Défilé des ombres

When Jun’ichuro Tanizaki published his essay “In’ei raisan” (translated as “In Praise of Shadows”) in 1933, he detected a fundamental difference between Western and Eastern cultures. For him, his difference lay above all in terms of two aspects…

Essay by Marc Glöde

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Ornament in the White Cube – 
Sandra Peters’s Architectural Sculptures

When Peter Friese invited Sandra Peters to develop a site-specific work for the Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen, he can hardly have suspected what awaited him. For the artist’s intervention affects not only the perception…

Essay by Hubertus Butin

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New Correspondences for Old Patterns

Sandra Peters has designed an elaborate and at the same time clear installation for the exhibition space of the Kunstverein Ruhr on Essen’s Kopstadtplatz. She clad the two columns within the space with round bricks produced and burned…

Essay by Peter Friese

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Zeichen Zeichnen Zeit

Die Worte, die die traditionellen bildenden Künste bezeichnen – Zeichnung, Malerei, Skulptur, Architektur – , beziehen sich auf materielle Verfahren, die als konstitutiv für diese Künste angesehen wurden: das Setzen von Zeichen oder das Ziehen…

Essay by Gregor Stemmrich

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