Julian Rosefeldt World-Making Film and Photo Works 2001-2011

In “World-Making,” Julian Rosefeldt's first major solo exhibition in Asia, the German artist (born 1965) presents 6 major film installations and 19 photo works created from 2001 through 2011. In addition to still photographs from the film installations, the photographic component of the exhibition is augmented by behind-the-scenes images intended to elaborate on the overall exhibition concept, sharing images from projects such as The Ship of Fools, The Soundmaker, and The Perfectionist. Rosefeldt’s images convey a meticulous feeling of realism, rendered with a skilled hand at cinematic scene modulation to give precisely arranged visual spaces a cool sense of alienation. However, these constructed realistic settings paradoxically convey to us an illusory, nebulous existential feeling in various aspects of the images. This exhibition can be seen at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (http://www.tfam.museum/TFAM_Exhibition/exhibitionDetail.aspx?PMN=1&ExhibitionId=425&PMId=425) until June 3, 2012.