Through binoculars the visitor can examine the tiniest details of historical landscape paintings from the gallery, installed in unconventional arrangements on the large wall of the cinema. In the context of his new installation Neanderthal Landscape he creates an archival situation for the gallery hall in which visitors can follow the development and results of his research on the Düsseldorf School of the 19th century.
In the sidelight hall and foyer of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Matts Leiderstam presents older works from the period 1997 to 2008.
He usually plans his exhibitions, which frequently take the form of archives or historical collections of paintings, for a specific location. His scientific approach has made Leiderstam one of the few visual artists to gain a doctorate with his artistic work. Attention thus focuses on incidental details and subtle codes that normally are hardly perceived owing to habitual patterns of seeing and interpreting. With the aid of slide projections, computer animations, optical instruments (colour filters, magnifying glasses, binoculars, etc.) and his own reproductions of originals, the artist appropriates the material, offering the viewer alternative ways of looking at visual motifs and compositions. After intensive art and cultural history research, Leiderstam takes paintings and graphic art out of their original collection and presentation contexts to position them anew within institutional exhibitions. DUSSELDORF.- The Swedish installation artist Matts Leiderstam (*1956 in Göteborg) is interested in the portrait and landscape painting of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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