HIPPOLYTE STUDIO
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki
09 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi/studio
Open: Tue-Fri 12-17, Sat-Sun 12-16

4.6.-2.7.2010
Gegenliebe:
TORSTEN P BRUCH

The German word ’Gegenliebe’ means returned or reciprocated love. It implies being open to the opposite, to interactions, sensations and connections. Gegenliebe – Returned Love is an exhibition with artists working in the artist house FRIESE, Hamburg, Germany and is organised in collaboration with MUU gallery, Helsinki. Eight artists participate in the exhibition and the works are on show in galleries around Helsinki. All artists react from their personal viewpoint. The works can consist of reflections on a country, a place or society at large. Answers are sought for and discovered both in the sphere of art and in the personal.

More information about the Gegenliebe exhibition:
http://www.muu.fi/site/?p=1773#more-1773

Hippolyte Studio presents four video works by Torsten P Bruch. In his work he deals with meaningful and even sad themes such as loneliness and longing with a touch of irony. Among other things, they feature the first ever barefoot tap dance as well as astronauts floating in space. Bruch seems to have a tongue in cheek even when dealing with serious themes. For example in the video Laurentia, a man is singing a song that describes the longing after one’s love. Towards the end of the video it becomes obvious that Laurentia will not come. The performance creates a sense of isolation and loneliness, yet remaining very entertaining. In the video’s counter part the artist Nobuko Watabik performs the same song in Japanese. Nobuko Watabik participates in Gegenliebe with an exhibition at Gallery Kioski in Helsinki.

 

Torsten P Bruch (b. 1973) is an artist born in Hannover and currently living in Hamburg, Germany. The starting point for Bruch is the search for the other within the self, achieved by different strategies of role play. Meeting the self by multiplication is a central motive in his multitired transmedial art work.
www.methodik-bruch.de/wiki

 

 

Information and press images:
Heli Luoma, Hippolyte Studio, +358 9 612 33 44, info[at]hippolyte.fi

Torsten P Bruch Laurentia 2010 (videostill)