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"Ich mache die Schmerzprobe"

D 1984/85, Video, 6:30 min, col
Editors: Marcel Odenbach, M. Ferber
With: Gisbert Pohlmann, Manfred Darmer.
Music: „Don Giovanni“, Mozart; Produced by Video-Inn, Cologne

The crack of a whip repeats insistently throughout this provocative work, which posits male body-building as a charged metaphor for authoritarian structures. With this undercurrent of discipline and punishment, Odenbach conflates the construction of the physical body with the psychological, pain with pleasure, seduction with oppression. Fragmented images of a man working out on exercise machines are intercut with Baroque statuary and architecture, and male action scenes from Hollywood films. Isolated in panels that divide the screen into a triptych, the movements of the exercise machines become threatening, the exertions of the body-builder masochistic. Odenbach's ritual „pain test“ of Western manhood and cultural tradition ends on a view through a tattered curtain.

(Electronic Arts Intermix)

Marcel Odenbach

Geboren 1953 in Köln, lebt und arbeitet in Köln • 1974-79 Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Dipl. Ing.; seit 1992 Professur an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe • Einzelausstellungen seit 1987: 1987 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg • 1989 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid • 1993 Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Kunstverein Braunschweig • 1994 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn; Galerie Stampa, Basel; Eigen + Art, Leipzig • 1996 Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Firehouse, Harlem, New York • 1997 Staatliche Kunstsammlung Liechtenstein; Goethe Institut, London • 1998 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York • 1999 Galerie Stampa, Basel • Gruppenausstellungen seit 1987: 1987 „L'Èpoque, la mode, la morale, la passion“, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; documenta IIX, Kassel • 1989 „Video-Skulptur: Retrospektiv und Aktuell 1963-1989“, Kunstverein Köln • 1991 „Metropolis“, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin • 1993 Mediale, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; „Allegorie de la richesse“, Humboldt Universität, Berlin • 1994 Medienbiennale, Leipzig • 1996 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel • 1997 „Deutschlandbilder“, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Anton Kern Gallery, New York

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