Fuji-Yama-Series
Was sagt der Zeitgeist...
CR 634. Year 1979
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Was sagt der Zeitgeist unseren Dogen wohl zu dieser Stelle? / der Weg ist weg die Stelle helle
In... Fuji-Yama-Series (1979), neither the "truths" nor the "lies" of his subject are told. His pictures tell only of the "un-truths": what appears to be mountain is a heap of slag. Only, once sighted by Gerz, it became an image called Fuji-Yama. The nature of the "real" is that is has been, and still is, essentially, a choreographed reality... At this point, it is not of major importance to define precisely what is meant by an unreal reality. Whether it is Lévi-Strauss' bricolage (a "structure without origin" relevant to discussing the ready-made), Barthes' pastiche, Baudrillard's simulacrum, or Derrida's reference without model, the 'real' is always that which has been previously made: culture.
Bojana Pejic 1993
In 1979, Gerz visited the French coal-mining area between Lille and the Belgian border, which inspired the Fuji-Yama- Series…
Volker Rattemeyer und Renate Petzinger 2011
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Fuji-Yama-Series #1
b/w photography, framed, 40 x 50 cm, text (typewriting), framed, 24 x 32 cm
Musée de Toulon
Exhibitions
Düsseldorf 1979. Bielefeld 1981. Wien 1981. Toulon 1982. Chalon-sur-Saône 1983. Strasbourg 1994
Bibliography
I: Dudweiler 1981, pp. 8-9. Montréal 1993, pp. 17-18. Strasbourg 1994, pp. 72, 140
II: Red. 10, 1979. Schwarze 1979. Red. 7, 1981. Kageneck 3, 1994. Wagner 1, 1994